In our contracts at the academy I work it states notice periods of at least 2 months and the last day must coincide with the end of a term.  If someone was to resign tomorrow that would, in my mind, take the person up to the May half term holiday.  However, the Principal is saying that a term is Christmas, Easter or Summer so would want to hold that person in the role until the summer.  This is support staff not teaching and I feel this is massively excessive.  Any views or experience of this?  To me it's also a bit of semantics as to the use of term or semester