The plans call for a one-week reduction in the summer break and an additional week added for the October half-term.
However, Lynne Neagle, Wales’s education secretary, has declared that no choice would be taken prior to the 2026 Senedd election.
This implies that it is unlikely that any other modifications to the school year will be made before 2028.
Welsh government policy has been halted twice in as many weeks, the first time because of farmer complaints over the abandoned plans for a new farm subsidy scheme.
According to Ms. Neagle, the government’s consultation on school year reform revealed “hugely divided” opinions on the subject.
One of the many initiatives that made up the Labour government’s agreement with Plaid Cymru, the party that supports Welsh independence, was the reform of the school year.
Ministers indicated that they were investigating options “to see how we can better support the teaching profession in planning and managing workload, while helping address the learning loss and effects on the wellbeing of learners and staff, that the profession tells us comes from a long summer and uneven terms.”
However, following a controversy regarding a £200k payment to the leadership campaign of newly appointed first minister Vaughan Gething, Labour withdrew from its arrangement with Plaid last month.
