schools and holidays

alwaysonthego_2

!!!!!!_here wrote: »

If you decide to start school before age 5 - as most kids do these days - you don't just turn up as and when you want to because you legally don't have to be there, you've agreed to turn up every day.

but the point that was made was I asked permission rather then 'not turned up' and the school was very reasonable.

Zziggi

!!!!!!_here wrote: »

But as someone pointed out earlier, either you're on the school register or you're not. If you are, then the school expects you to be there as they've got truancy targets etc to meet and this is clearly unauthorised absence.

If you decide to start school before age 5 - as most kids do these days - you don't just turn up as and when you want to because you legally don't have to be there, you've agreed to turn up every day.

I agree with you, however i would have thought that there would perhaps be a little degree of flexibility when children are technically under compulsory school age. There's a world of difference between;

(a) the parents of a 4 year old asking for 2 extra days holidays because the child is not technically compulsory school age

and

(b)the parents of a 4 year old routinely only sending their child for 2 or 3 days a week because the child is not technically compulsory school age.

Zziggi

Actually I have a related question.....

if a child is aged 3 or 4 and is in a nursery attached to a school - does the child's absence from nursery (i.e. in non-compulsory schooling) impact on the truacy statistics for the main school (i.e. compulsory schooling of classes Reception, Y1-Y6)??

Dick_here

Zziggi wrote: »

There's a world of difference between;

(a) the parents of a 4 year old asking for 2 extra days holidays because the child is not technically compulsory school age

and

(b)the parents of a 4 year old routinely only sending their child for 2 or 3 days a week because the child is not technically compulsory school age.

Not when compiling attendance figures for those two days there isn't.

Spendless

Zziggi wrote: »

Actually I have a related question.....

if a child is aged 3 or 4 and is in a nursery attached to a school - does the child's absence from nursery (i.e. in non-compulsory schooling) impact on the truacy statistics for the main school (i.e. compulsory schooling of classes Reception, Y1-Y6)??

When my eldest was in nursery I wasn't going to send him in one day cos he was due his jabs, but the school was being ofsted inspected that day and I asked head about it, worried I'd be causing her problems. She thanked me for thinking of her, but said it would be fine, as he was only there voluntarily.