We received a letter about DD1's attendance at school today. She is in reception and has been really unlucky with illnesses. Last term she had a full week off with and some other days off. These were a mix of vomiting/diarrheoa bug, a chest infection and two days for a temperature/dodgy tummy. One day off she had as DD2 had a horrendous night, none of us got any sleep and DD1 literally couldn't keep her eyes open. She would have literally slept all day in class if she had been sent in.
We sent in a letter with each absence, the only time we took her to the doctors was when she had the week off. Within one letter to school we raised the issue, told them we were aware of this and asked some questions about their policies on illness. Noone got back to us. The same thing happened when DD1 started nursery, she was pretty much ill constantly until February but there's been nothing we could do about her immune system now or then.
This term we thought she would have been fine and that her attendance would have improved. Then the snow happened and she was ill again. The first day she had off DH was away, there was no way I could safely get her to school being heavily pregnant with SPD. I did try but unfortunately couldn't get her there. The beginning of the new week, also her birthday, school was shut due to the snow. I had fallen ill over the weekend and both DD1 and DD2 came down with what I had on the Monday. It was horrid and we were all pretty much in bed for the whole week and I'm still ill from that although both DDs are better now. So we got this letter, which the school said was coming. Fine, we totally understand that absence is not good but she has genuinely been ill when she has been off. The letter was actually from the council rather than school and said they would be monitoring her attendance for the next 4 weeks. If the attendance falls below 96% in these 4 weeks, which we aren't planning on happening, then they 'will take further action'. What do they mean by this? I want to reiterate to school our apologies for her attendance but it's been out of our hands the reasons why she's been off. Do I contact the head or even this attendance officer at the council? Or do I just leave it?
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EricNorthmansFangBanger · 31/01/2013 00:07
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