{"id":1795,"date":"2025-03-26T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:50:27","slug":"a-late-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/2025\/03\/26\/a-late-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"A late Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/Lent-260325-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1797\" style=\"width:431px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/Lent-260325-1.png 250w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/Lent-260325-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Easter is a movable feast; unlike Christmas it does not occur on a set date each calendar year.\u00a0 The date of Easter is decided more by celestial and planetary patterns, falling each year on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.\u00a0 (Remember that, it is bound to come in a quiz sometime!)\u00a0 It is because Easter is so late this year, falling on Sunday 20 April 2025, that we have the strange sensation of finishing the term with 2 weeks of Lent still to go, and coming back to school on Tuesday 22 April the day after Easter Monday.\u00a0 In other years, we have worked right up to Maundy Thursday and been able to mark the start of the Easter Triduum and Passion of Christ with a very reflective service on the last afternoon of the spring term.\u00a0 Not this year though.\u00a0 However, we did get to mark Ash Wednesday in school (as this can often fall in the spring half term), and when we return Easter will still be fresh in pupils\u2019 minds for a whole school worship on the morning of Tuesday 22 April.\u00a0 So, for now I wish you all an enjoyable holiday when it arrives at the end of next week, and also wish you a very happy celebration of Easter when it comes in late April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr R Cunningham<br>Headteacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is a movable feast; unlike Christmas it does not occur on a set date each calendar year.\u00a0 The date of Easter is decided more by celestial and planetary patterns, falling each year on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.\u00a0 (Remember that, it is bound to come in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}