Booking a holiday in term time ?

pinkladyof66

no it is gonna be 5 as we fly on a tuesday and return tuesday..

my son has had a cold for like 4 months solid,, he has been sleeping well but school sent him home lunchtime today as he was feeling tired !!!

makes me mad got him home nothing wrong with him shouting running around etc etc.. this is the 2nd time they sent him home and nothing wrong with him.. See how they react when i put my letter in asking to take him out

Tigsteroonie

pinkladyof66 wrote: »

my son has had a cold for like 4 months solid,, he has been sleeping well but school sent him home lunchtime today as he was feeling tired !!! makes me mad got him home nothing wrong with him shouting running around etc etc.. this is the 2nd time they sent him home and nothing wrong with him.

Our son is at an ASD-specific school, and he gets sent home quite often for colds etc too, it's very annoying but I guess it doesn't really make any difference to his schooling

pinkladyof66

No of course it dont make any difference to a childs learning when they are 6 and functioning at a 3 year stage.. and is not doing any of the core tasks a 6 year old would do.. so taking my son out for 5 days should not really have much of an impact on his learning

Tigsteroonie

pinkladyof66 wrote: »

No of course it dont make any difference to a childs learning when they are 6 and functioning at a 3 year stage.. and is not doing any of the core tasks a 6 year old would do.. so taking my son out for 5 days should not really have much of an impact on his learning

You'd think so. Unfortunately they didn't write any leeway into the legislation, so even the SEN schools have to officially toe the line on this. We get an official letter once a year reminding us of the rules - though if you catch the head in person before going away, he wishes you "happy holiday!" :rotfl:

Incidentally, I hope you didn't think I was meaning your child when I said "it doesn't make any difference to his schooling" - I was talking about our son, 5 years old and functioning like a 2-3 year old. Sounds as though we have things in common

moomoomama27

Yes you just inform the school in writing and the they normally tell you if they will fine or just put it down as unauthorised.

pinkladyof66

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

You'd think so. Unfortunately they didn't write any leeway into the legislation, so even the SEN schools have to officially toe the line on this. We get an official letter once a year reminding us of the rules - though if you catch the head in person before going away, he wishes you "happy holiday!" :rotfl:

Incidentally, I hope you didn't think I was meaning your child when I said "it doesn't make any difference to his schooling" - I was talking about our son, 5 years old and functioning like a 2-3 year old. Sounds as though we have things in common

No not at all.. seems we have alot in common... my son is 6.5 and it is so so very hard work at times

dangers

I think that you get fined if you have 6 days off at my local school. Hope you're doing ok and that ds is settled in school.

Happier_Me

We had a family holiday durng May bank week last year. There was no point in filling in the holiday form so we wrote in their school diaries that the children wouldn't be in that week and to record their absence as unauthorised. I phoned in the first morning with the same message. We didn't get fined as the children missed four days of school, not five consecutive days.

We are going away over the May half term this year and will probably phone the kids in sick for the two days we need extra.

pinkladyof66

i was under the impression it was more than 5 days as in (6).. i dont see the point tbh in filling out a form when we know we wont get it authorised makes a mockery of wasting my time. So think nearer to easter i will just put a letter in as not going til 28 april

Jagraf

I'm not quite sure why its consecutive days, does that mean in theory you could take one day on, one day off? Don't you need to provide sick notes etc? Is there an acceptable percentage?

I'm not sure of the rules as my DD is in her final year of GCSEs and has always hated missing school, even from reception, I think she has half a day once to catch a flight on a Friday night. Even if she's been off poorly we've had work sent home for us to catch up, so she didn't feel she had fallen behind.