Child’s school attendance

[janeg88]

Originally Posted by Omega1

In England (from 2015), the threshold for a ‘persistent absentee’ is 10% absence. Schools are required to trigger intervention when this figure is reached and Ofsted would certainly check on actions taken to improve PA.

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I’m in Scotland, we def work on 80%. Attendance is part of my current role.

The difference in the system is quite substantial.

[jimzhos]

I also think it really depends on your school as well.

I took my daughter away in April for 2 weeks and 1 week was term time. I also took her away in July for a week during term time and her school authorised the absences.

They got authorised as my wife was in hospital for 8 weeks and we needed some family time to regroup.

It was all authorised and we got the school to provide us with reading books and homework and we spent an hour every morning and an hour every evening doing work with her.

All in she missed 10 days (20 sessions) but her attendance this year is 99% for the year

[scojos]

Originally Posted by jimzhos

I also think it really depends on your school as well.

I took my daughter away in April for 2 weeks and 1 week was term time. I also took her away in July for a week during term time and her school authorised the absences.

They got authorised as my wife was in hospital for 8 weeks and we needed some family time to regroup.

It was all authorised and we got the school to provide us with reading books and homework and we spent an hour every morning and an hour every evening doing work with her.

All in she missed 10 days (20 sessions) but her attendance this year is 99% for the year

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They will have put her as educated offsite or it d have been alot lower.. my son while in BCH was educated offsite...
He was too ill to study but his attendance at the end of yr 11 was over 99%

[Omega1]

Originally Posted by janeg88

I’m in Scotland, we def work on 80%. Attendance is part of my current role.

The difference in the system is quite substantial.

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It certainly is.😎

[Connors Daddy]

At 5 years old, to be honest, I'd say just get on with it. Yes 17 school days is a fair bit, and yes it'll attract attention, but it's booked already.

By the time she's 10/11/12/13, whatever, the time off school at the age of 5 won't make a blind bit of difference

Go and enjoy it - they are only little for a short time.

[Abbysmum]

I'm an attendance officer at school and in England anything below 90% is classed as persistent absence (PA) and it's something Ofsted look very closely at. What I would say is that it's better for you that you are going later in the school year, if you were going early in the year your daughter would be a PA child for the majority of the school year however as you are going in June she'll only be PA for the latter part of June into July which means there will probably not be any interventions just a potential fine. I know our head teacher would rather families holiday in summer term as Ofsted attendance data is collected for Autumn & Spring terms and it's all about the data for Ofsted!

[mushumadness]

Mine have 92% attendance this year due to missing ten school days
If that helps
Anything user 90% gets monitoring visits here

[Button17]

To give you a clue...
My daughter missed 44 sessions, so 22 days and her attendance dropped to 83%.

Through no fault of her own I hasten to add. Her first year at secondary school and she's been very unlikely with her health. 5 occasions off school, one of them being just over 2 weeks 😪

[Bozza]

Originally Posted by janeg88

I’m in Scotland, we def work on 80%. Attendance is part of my current role.

The difference in the system is quite substantial.

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Snow 11 months of the year, deep fried Mars Bars and barely having to go to school.

Scotland sounds a great place.

[judy22]

I work in a school monitoring attendance as one of my roles. Personally, as your child is young - go on holiday. BUT, do not expect the school staff to prepare work for you to take or for the teacher to spend time catching up when you return. I hear this from our teaching staff who just dont have the time to prepare this with children off at all different times in the the year.