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TERM TIMES & ABSENCE

Everything you need to know about term times and, of course, when your holidays and breaks will be are on this page. For now we’ve only listed key dates for 2022/23. Check back soon for the year 2023/24.

Autumn term 2025

Monday 1st September
Term Starts

Monday 27th October - Friday 31st October Half Term

Thursday 18th December
Term Ends

Spring term 2026

Monday 5th January
Term Starts

Monday 16th - Friday 20th February
Half Term

Friday 27th March
Term Ends

Summer Term 2026

Monday 13th APRIL
Term Starts

Monday 25th - Friday 29th May
Half Term

Friday 19th June
Term Ends

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Student or Apprentice Reporting an Absence

Attendance is a core expectation of employability, and we expect a high level of attendance from all our students and apprentices. However, if you can’t attend, please click on the Report Absence button below to report your absence.

If you are an apprentice, you can use the button below or contact your assessor directly.

Parent & Carers Reporting an Absence

If your child or young person is going to be absent from college, they can report this online using our student app or Student Hub website. On the Student Hub (the option to do this will be in the quick links section of the homepage).

If they are unable to access any of those two systems, please call 0300 30 30 007 from 8:30am onwards and our staff will assist you further with this.

You will need to let us know which subject(s) your child or young person is studying and at which Cambria site.

Our staff will then put you through to the relevant subject area.

When you are transferred, you may reach an answerphone, if this is the case please leave a message that clearly states your young person’s:

Full name
Date of birth
Student number (if known)
The subject(s) they are studying with us
Reason for absence
The date they will be back in college (if known)
A contact telephone number for yourself.

What will you need to have?

Student Name

Student ID

Reason for Absence

COLLEGE LOG IN DETAILS (If Reporting Online)

What else do you need to know?

Late arrival or leaving college during in the day

If a student is expecting to be late for a planned lesson or needs to leave college during the day and still has lessons that they should be attending they should report this on the app. If they are unable to do so please make sure they contact reception on their relevant Cambria Site, if they don’t know where that is please make sure they ask their course tutor or progress coach and they will direct them.

Planned absence

If a student’s absence is known about in advance (i.e. university open day, hospital appointment), then the student needs to report this on the app.

If they are unable to do so they should contact reception on their relevant Cambria Site, if they don’t know where that is please make sure they ask their course tutor or progress coach and they will direct them.

Holiday during term time

We very strongly urge you not to arrange holidays in term time and request that, whenever possible, appointments with doctors and dentists are made outside of college hours.

However if a family holiday is planned please ask the student to report this on the app. If they are unable to do so they should contact reception on the relevant Cambria Site, if they don’t know where that is please make sure they ask their course tutor or progress coach and they will direct them. Please also ask the student to notify all course tutors and progress coaches.