regions have a week off at the beginning of October (weeks 40 or 41). Christmas holidays start some days before Christmas Eve and end in the first week of January. There is one week of winter vacation in late February (weeks 8 or 9). Easter holiday is from Palm Sunday to Easter Monday or a day or two later, and Summer holidays begin some days before midsummer. Poland All public schools have the following breaks/holidays (with the 5 main breaks underlined): November 1 – All Saints Day, 1 day break November 11 – Independence Day (Autumn), 1 day break January 6 – the Epiphany, 1 day break 1st Winter Break – Two weeks around Christmas and New Year 2nd Winter Break – two weeks in January or February (depending on region) Easter (Spring) Break – Maundy Thursday to the Tuesday after Easter Monday May Break – May 1 (Labor Day), May 2 (Polish Flag Day) and May 3 (Constitution of May 3) Corpus Christi – four days in May or June (depending on the year) Summer Break – first Saturday after June 20 to the end of August or early September (first school week day in September unless it falls on a Friday) Romania Summer breaks run from late May-mid-June to early-mid-September and are around 13–15 weeks long. Pupils/students in the 8th and 12th grades usually enter summer break a week or two earlier than everyone else from other grades. Spring breaks are usually one to two weeks long, between late March and early May depending on the dates of both Orthodox and Catholic Easter. There can be two spring breaks if the Catholic and Orthodox Easter dates are very different. Winter break is three weeks long (it usually starts in the third or fourth week of December and it ends on the second or third Monday of January). There is also a one-week long fall break, which is usually between late October and early November; however, it was limited to pupils in preschool and primary education; everyone else had a full learning period between the summer and winter breaks. Starting from 2022, though, the fall break has been applied to middle and high schools, too. All academic years in Romania prior to the 2019–2020 school year used to have a second Winter break, which was often referred to as the "break between semesters" (vacanță intersemestrială), which would usually be