“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.” ―
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

School Times

School Day

From January 2018, Parkfield Community School is open from 8:30am to 3:20pm Monday to Thursday during term time for EYFS and Years 1 and 2 and from 8:30am to 3:25pm for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6.

On Fridays, school is open from 8:30am and it closes to all children at 12:20pm.

For Key Stage 1, this totals 31 hours and 10 minutes in school per week, and for Key Stage 2, this totals 31 hours and 30 minutes.

Breakfast Club is available from 8am each morning and a variety of after school clubs are available from 3.25pm until 4:30pm Monday to Thursday. Please speak to our office for further details about these.

Parkfield Community School follows the Birmingham LA term dates. 

School Year 2022 to 2023

Autumn Term 2022

Children back: Wednesday 7th September 2022
Half Term: Monday 24 October 2022 to Friday 28 October 2022


Term Ends: Thursday 15th December 2022

(Staff Training Day: Friday 16 December 2022)


Spring Term 2023

Children back: Wednesday 4 January 2023
Half Term: Monday 20 February 2023 to Friday 24 February 2023

(Staff Training Day: Tuesday 3 January 2023)


Term Ends: Friday 31 March 2023


Summer Term 2023

Children back: Monday 17 April 2023
Half Term: Monday 29 May 2023 to Friday 2 June 2023


Term Ends: Friday 21 July 2023

(Staff Training Days: Monday 24 July 2023, Tuesday 25 July 2023)