Do all Most Secondary Schools Allow their Y11s to go on study leave for their GCSEs?

My dd did her Scottish equivalent this year and they only got study leave if they were sitting so many exams.

Apologies - I didn't mean unauthorised. I meant that the absence is still counted in the overall figures for the school until half term. After that it doesn't.

A fifth of the school being "absent" for a week, for example, is very significant.

DD's school didn't allow study leave until the last week of exams. It is in a rural market town and many pupils rely on the school bus to get to school, so taking study leave would have been very difficult for most of them.

DD found that she got more revision done at home than at school.

CauliflowerSqueeze - The register code for any study leave given to Y11 students is 'S' which counts as authorised absence. There is no rule particularly about before or after half term but government guidance says " Study leave should be used sparingly and only granted to Year 11 pupils during public examinations."

Any absence be it authorised or unauthorised is recorded in the school statistics, this will apply up to the last Friday in June for those who are 16 (and presumably until the end of the school year for the summer born children but I am happy to be corrected on that)

dds started at the summer half term - most of the way through her exams. Even then they still had to go in for revision sessions.

raspberry
Technically 16, but in effect 18 ..... heaven help the state school that has lots it cannot account for after 16
www.gov.uk/know-when-you-can-leave-school

cauliflower
It's marked as unauthorised absence before the summer half term holiday.
link please ....

It's marked as unauthorised absence before the summer half term holiday. So schools have to bear that in mind.

Still study leave here (DS's school at least), although this past summer seemed to start slightly later than when DS1 did his GCSEs. Option still to go into school though - which some of DS's friends did indeed do - the "mix and match" seemed to cater fairly flexibly for different needs.

DS did his GCSEs this year. There was no study leave at all.

If they didn't have an exam they were expected to be in class. They still had the same timetable but with revision sessions instead of lessons. Once their last exam was finished, they didn't have to go to school anymore.

I think this was better for DS as he works better in school than he does at home.

DD did GCSEs this summer. According to her, for some, study leave started in January (not official!) otherwise it started officially once the first exam had been sat. Some extra revision classes were offered for different subjects.

Dd1s school do it once the English and Maths exams are done.

My son did his GCSEs this Summer and they had no study leave, the policy had been changed from when my older son sat his three years previously and went on study leave in the May.
Sixth Form don't get it for AS or A Levels either.

Study leave is rarer, but school leaving age is still 16. There are options other than school

AS the school leaving age is now 18 its becoming rarer and rarer

We used to have study leave but not anymore. Theyre expected in school and there's student support staff on hand every day to guide them through the best ways of studying. IT suites are open to them at any time to study and its encouraged that they use all the schools facilities to help them study. They just no longer have to attend structured classes.

Its much better than just letting them go home and mess about or half heartedly study.

It's been majorly cut back round here.
I was telling dd1 I started study leave on May 6th-and we only went in for exams after that.

After May half term, if the timetabled lessons have finished exams they are allowed to go home for that lesson.
They have actually found that it increases results quite a bit though.

From half term here, so two weeks of exams without. I actually phoned DD in sick a couple of days the last week as she works much, much better at home.

She didn't miss any structured revision though.

My eldest DD had quite a few weeks study leave before the exams but the youngest at the same school (4 years behind) had a sort of 'restricted' study leave where they did not need to come into school when they didn't have exams but there were a few revision sessions.

As pp has said, some schools do, some don't.

My DNiece who did her GCSEs last year didn't, nor did my DNephew 2 years ago (different schools in different parts of the country).

Having had 2 daughters do "study leave" I would far rather they went into school.

I was under the impression that it has basically completely stopped because it counts as absence for the school's attendance figures and therefore damages their ofsted grade. But I don't work in education and this might be a mistaken impression.

Dd's will start in early May. They have the option to go in when they don't have exams for revision. She also has it for mocks in January, first two weeks of term.

Yes, I was in school last week and they said that their study leave next year will probably start on 15th May, which i think is also the week the exams start. It felt like dd1 had about a month off before her exams started!

It's been really cut back on from what it used to be several years ago.
There's still some variance but pupils are all generally in school until much later now, and more often now.

Ours doesn't do study leave, they have to continue attending until each exam has passed with any spare lessons used for revising. They do this for GCSE and A-Level.

However, I think the other two schools do allow study leave.