The phrase "first day of term" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the first day of a school term, or the first day of work in a new position. For example: "I was nervous on my first day of term, but I soon grew more comfortable with my new classmates."
I showed up at Chelsea on the first day of term with a suitcase, and a copy of Loot.
Outstanding teaching But that first day of term may mark the end of the City school's travails.
More than 50 pupils were sent home from a Nottingham school on the first day of term after turning up in inappropriate footwear – including flip-flops.
I'll never forget sitting in the classroom at Perry Beeches III in Birmingham, on the first day of term this year.
About 100 pupils who broke the school's uniform rules are reported to have been taken out of class on the first day of term on Tuesday, with 56 sent home to change after their parents were contacted.
The uniform crackdown on the first day of term is becoming a ritual in schools up and down the country, as headteachers increasingly favour a strict dress code which they say improves classroom behaviour.
Nonetheless schools are obliged by law to provide free meals from the first day of next term.
He imagined Trump, on the first day of his term, repealing all of Obama's executive orders and agency regulations — an imperious way to make the Presidency less imperial.
The pre-testing of survey scales was administered to a different set of respondents (40 students) on the first day of the term after they had written their diagnostic essay test.
23 For the analysis of admissions, the time under observation was from the first day of long term oxygen therapy in the community until the date of first admission to hospital for all causes, with censoring at withdrawal of long term oxygen therapy, death, or study end (31 December 2009).
