Petition by School Based Staff in Nottingham City

against the introduction of a 5-term school year.

Please note that this petition is now re-opened to give a further opportunity for school based staff to make their views known

It is the intention of Unions in Nottingham City to take out a dispute in relation to the introduction of the five- term year. It is the view of Trades Unions that this decision has been introduced against the overwhelming proportion of professionals who are not in favour of its introduction. We therefore ask you to support the dispute by signing the petition below.

The detail of the Council proposal is that;

• Nottingham City Council agreed to implement a five-term pattern at the Executive Board meeting of the 18 October 2011  from 2013-2014

• The fixing of two ‘in-service training’ (INSET) days for both years and each subsequent year thereafter, namely the first day of the new school year, Goose Fair Friday and the other three INSET days to be set individually by schools.

To gain maximum saturation of this petition it is being sent out by all Unions  We ask that you only complete it once and try to organize all employees to sign online below or to return paper copies as a block.

We the undersigned pledge our support to Nottingham City Trade Unions to campaign to reverse the decision by Nottingham City Council to implement a 5-term holiday pattern.

Sign the petition on-line, or you can download paper copies  here

Please note that your email address is for validation purposes only and will not be made public.

So far 935 people have signed on line and at least 2022 including those on paper petitions

(Updated: 16/05/12)

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