Child’s school attendance

[novocastrian]

aha see what you meant now

as above be at 90 % before any other illness etc etc

[Megandllsmum]

Definately 2 sessions per day, this is a screenshot of my youngests attendance record that was in her report last week.

We had a weeks holiday in termtime last year without issue and she still ended up above average attendance at 96.77% and 300 sessions out of 310

[MENTALMUM]

Do the 17 days include weekends or is rhar 17 school days, if so it would be less time out of school, just clarifying rather than assuming

[Littlelufs32]

My kids school brake it down by sessions.
They have a AM session and a PM session.
My son has just had his end of year report and his attendance was 99.7%.
He missed 1 morning session throughout the year.

[scojos]

As a teacher.
Ur child is missing 10% of the accademic year they will never recover that time.
I would say reconsider. If child has flu etc then ur looking intervention from EWO and thats not good.
This is about more than a fine...

[shack69]

Schools must meet for at least 380 sessions or 190 days during any school year to
educate their pupils. So if you are intend to have your child absent for 17 days then that is 34 sessions which means (380-34)/380 = 91% attendance. This is way below the acceptable level and you could expect to be finned and even maybe taken to court.

[Scaramouche]

Originally Posted by scojos

As a teacher.
Ur child is missing 10% of the accademic year they will never recover that time.
I would say reconsider. If child has flu etc then ur looking intervention from EWO and thats not good.
This is about more than a fine...

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As someone who missed more school due to illness/injury/disability PLUS 2 weeks a year holiday. Just going to throw a spanner in the works and say I have a degree, work full time in something to do with my degree, work part time in a job I absolutely love the bones of and wouldn’t swap for the world.

Please don’t say the child will never recover... it doesn’t damage everyone in such severe ways. It’s different if you’ve got a child who’s parents are interested in taking them to school etc but this is not the case here.

[Floridatilly]

Different circumstances, my son had a small operation which got infected so he ended up having 3 weeks off school (15 actual school days) he also had the odd day off sick plus hospital appointments.
We had a meeting at school yesterday regarding his attendance. We have difficulty getting him into school so the school is working with us.
But they took the 3 weeks off very seriously and that was due to medical reasons.
He is 13 in year 8 so not sure if that makes a difference
I think it also depends when the holidays are. Early in the school year they are still settling in etc the very last few weeks of school is generally trips & movies

[jndt]

As pp have said there are 190 days and 380 sessions. So 17 school days is 34 sessions. I think going below 95% ( not sure if it's 95% or 90%) at our school warrants the attendance officer for the LEA getting involved.

[munmun]

Originally Posted by vampiress88

How would I work out attendance?

I have booked to go away again and the new school had different holiday to the old an things have gone wrong so now they will be out of school 17 days rather than the 12 we originally thought.

Husband is worrying now and we have thought about changing it to two weeks but it wouldn’t be any cheaper but would get changed £200 to amend so lose lose.

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That is a lot of school time to miss, you are taking them out of school for 10% of the school year.