School holidays are not national — they vary by local authority and by school. So a generic revision app that "skips the half‑term" is guessing. StudYear lets your school publish its own calendar once, and every linked pupil's study planner keeps those exact dates free — automatically, on every device.
The USP: one source of truth for the whole school
In the School or Teacher console, open Term dates & holidays, add each break — name, start, end — and click Publish to all learners. That is it. From then on, when a pupil linked to your join code builds a study plan, it inherits your calendar and never schedules revision through your holidays or INSET‑shaped breaks. No spreadsheets sent home, no parent re‑typing dates.
Built for how schools really work
- Synced across devices. A pupil on a Chromebook in school and a phone at home sees the same published dates.
- Any staff member can keep it current. The calendar belongs to the school, not to whoever created it first, so leadership and teaching staff can all edit it.
- Sensible fallbacks. If a pupil's school hasn't published dates, their planner uses the dates the learner entered, or a clearly‑labelled approximate England pattern — it never dead‑ends.
- Safe by design. Term dates are ordinary school information, not pupil data; nothing personal is shared to publish them.
Why it earns its place
Workload and wellbeing both improve when revision fits the real school year. Pupils trust a plan that respects their actual holidays; parents stop fielding "do I have to revise on the inset day?"; and your calendar becomes the single reference every family's plan is built on.
How long does it take to set up?
A few minutes. Add each break once; it applies to every linked learner from then on, and you only revisit it when the calendar changes.
What if we change a date later?
Edit it in the console and publish again — every pupil's planner picks up the change automatically the next time it syncs.
See it in the School console and publish your calendar in minutes.