5. Winter holidays
Two weeks in the range between
20th of January and 2nd March
depending on Voivodship in Poland
17 – 21 February in England
6. Duration of the school year in
Great Britain
Average year – 190 days
Division of the school year in three
terms
◦ Autumn Term
◦ Spring Term
◦ Summer Term
Additional three half therms
7. Duration of the school year in Poland
Avarage amount of school days in this
school year is 187
Division of the school year in two
terms:
◦ Winter Term
◦ Summer Term
10. Special days we don’t know in
Poland
Twelth night (5th January)
St. George's Day (23th April)
Trooping the colour (June)
Remembrance day (11th November)
Stir up Sunday (24th November)
12. Some history
1871
Sir John Lubbock
The Bank Holidays Act
It introduced: Easter Monday, the first
Monday in August, the 26th
December, and Whit Monday
13. Examples of polish „public
holidays”
Date
Name
1 January
Nowy Rok, Świętej Bożej Rodzicielki
6 January
20 April
21 April
Trzech Króli (Objawienie Pańskie)
Wielkanoc
Poniedziałek Wielkanocny
1 May
3 May
Święto Pracy
Święto Konstytucji 3 Maja
Zesłanie Ducha Świętego (Zielone
Świątki)
8 June
19 June
13
Days
Boże Ciało
15 August
Święto Wojska Polskiego,
Wniebowzięcie Najświętszej Maryi
Panny
1 November Wszystkich Świętych
11
November
Święto Niepodległości
25
December
Boże Narodzenie (pierwszy dzień)
14. English public/bank holidays
Date
1 January
Good Friday
21 April
Easter Monday
-
Royal wedding
5 May
Early May Bank
Holiday
26 May
Spring Bank Holiday
-
Days
New Year's Day
18 April
8
Name
Queen's Diamond
Jubilee
25 August
Summer Bank Holiday
(August Bank Holiday)
25 December
Christmas Day
26 December
Boxing Day
16. When to do shopping then?
Bank holiday shop opening times are:
10am to 4pm (or 11am to 5pm)
The only day when all shops with no
exeptions are closed is Christmas
(25th December)
17. Extra Info
Employees, who work on Bank
Holiday usually get paid extra:
Time-and-a-half or even double
time
What, if a bank holiday falls on
Saturday or Sunday?
18. The way British people spend
their summer holidays
Traditional British holiday
=
seaside holiday
22. Holiday trips abroad
1971 - 6.7 million
2005 - 66.4 million
Two-thirds of these
visits abroad are
holidays with about
half (47 per cent)
package holidays.
24. Preferred mode of transport to
holiday destinations
43 million
9,7 million
5,6 million
25. Popular holiday trends
Most holidays - July and August
Winter and spring - a second holiday
abroad
Seaside package holidays as the most
popular type of holiday
4 weeks holiday per year and 2 weeks off
in the Summer for most working people
26. A Timeline of British Holiday
Habits
1800-1850
„holy”
days
1850 1900
the
creation of
a national
railway
system
19001960s popular
weekends
and
holiday
camps
1970s
evolution
of airlines
1980s package
holidays
1980s1990s packages
to the USA
1990s –
2007 –
packages
much
further:
Australia,
Bali or
even to
Arctica