It all began with a fairly innocuous post on Threads...“Why do people persist in saying it’s half term when it’s the Easter Holidays?” asked user Henny Heawood (@delirioushappy). “Who started this?”Oh gosh, I thought. I am one of those people. I’ve been referring to the current break which children are on (from school, nursery, etc.) as half term. But am I in the wrong?! I checked my text messages from my child’s school (where she attends nursery for a handful of hours each day).“School finishes at the earlier time of 2pm today,” reads the reminder from a week ago. And then: “Have a lovely Easter holiday.” Cripes.In response to Henny’s post, some suggested not everyone refers to it as the Easter holidays because not everyone celebrates Easter. But half term is definitely incorrect, as many Threads users pointed out. Why isn’t it half term then?Caz Young explained there are “3x ‘big’ holiday breaks each year” – these are Easter, summer and Christmas.“They break up the school terms,” she said, adding that “between each holiday, there is a week holiday. It is in