Missing sixth form for 2 days

This.

As someone who deals with all Sixth Form Attendance. Be honest. Nothing will happen. No fines. It will go own as unauthorised, but nothing will come from this.

As per my usual rants on these subjects while kissing the ground that I don’t have kids in crap prison schools in England🎉 Fill out no form! phone him in sick, go and enjoy the concert.

He no longer has a legal requirement for attendance any more surely?
Just tell the school he'll be out for 2 days and leave it at that.

Call in sick but make sure there isn't one of those cameras 🤔🤣😅🤣😅😅🤣x let's face it some opportunities are to good to miss and if you don't do it regularly then I don't see the issue. I hope he has which I am sure he will a fantastic life experience xxx

There are no fines in sixth form. Sixth form attendance is not reported to the DfE in the way school attendance is - Reception to year 11.

He is poorly then

Ask for two days of holiday, they may put it down as unauthorised but I think you only get
a fine for 10 or more registrations and he’ll only miss 4 in two days. Say it was a reward for good GCSE results and it was the only available dates.

Lying and saying they are ill will backfire as their mates will say ‘no he’s not, he’s gone to London to see e.g. Bryan Adam’s’ (or more relevant to young people artist 🤣) Trust me, I teach sixth form and they alway rat each other out.

Last week when I was setting a date for their presentation to the class one of mine said I’m not here on Monday and another said ‘yeah, he’s going to be ill’. He was going to a family
wedding at the weekend and wasn’t flying back until Sunday.

I remember saying to one of my form 10 year ago, ‘it’s odd how you always have a dentist appt on a Tuesday afternoon when Man City have a weeknight home game’ (I knew him and his dad had season tickets). When he left the school 5 year later and we were reminiscing on his time in my tutor group, he told me when he left ‘Miss, I had to tell my Dad, we can’t do it anymore Mrs X has rumbled us’ 🤣

I work in a school with a 6th form. Just tell the truth. We don’t care if attendance is usually good. If he told me, I’d email him the PowerPoints I’d used in any lessons over those two days. If he missed a timed essay (or similar) I’d expect him to catch up in his frees. Enjoy the gig!

I took my kids out of school to see Taylor Swift and just emailed the absence addresses and said that’s why they weren’t in. Nobody contacted us about it.. it was only one day, although they also went in late next morning as we had to travel. It was fine.

Call in sick. 100%.

He will get in trouble and will be treated as a truancy if you are honest.

My DD is at sixth form. Massive F1 fan and we went to Silverstone for weekend as a birthday treat for my DH. It meant having Friday and Monday off. I just told them it was a really important trip. They can’t fine you. They’ll get over it and you’ll have had a great time!

Tell them he's sick!

It won't be authorised but there are no fines in 6th form (and even lower down the school it's very unlikely that 2 days unauthorised absence would be subject to a fine unless it's a recurrent issue). What's the worse that will happen? The boy will have 4 sessions recorded as unauthorised absence. If he is a good student with an otherwise excellent attendance record a one off absence is hardly likely to attract major sanctions. There'll be a bit of catching up to do but presumably he can get notes off his classmates and complete any homework that's been set once he gets home.
If you are happy that this trip is in your son's best interests, just do it OP. But have the courage of your convictions and be up front about it.

Sixth form attendance isn’t reported to the DfE and there are no fines so it’s far more relaxed although they wont agree to it as authorised.

Visiting universities abroad?

If she thinks it's right then she shouldn't lie. However she is still breaking the rules (although is she in sixth form?) so if the school gets cross they have a right to be cross. Education is exceptionally important, one of the most important things in life, and the amount of time people take off for silly things (I don't think OP's thing is silly) is astonishing, on top of the lying too!

There are girls and women literally dying to be educated in some countries, we should be falling over ourselves to get our kids to what is largely free and good education for all.

We did this earlier this year. In our case, the concert had originally been booked for a weekend date over a year earlier, but was then postponed to a Tuesday. Highly inconvenient but DD was not going to give up the tickets. We haven’t once taken any time off for holidays or time off during term, and her attendance is excellent. But I still phoned her in sick (it went against the grain but I viewed it very much as a one off, which she totally understood).

I’m really anti taking kids out of school, but in these circumstances I would just call in sick. It won’t put him in an awkward position if he’s in sixth form. He’s not like a six year old who will get in a pickle with lying.

In my experience they won't care. I've taken all 3 out of sixth form for different reasons.

I booked Hamilton far enough in advance that they hadn't released the half term dates yet. I guessed wrong. I told 6th Form and their response was "lucky things, have a great time!"

Same when it was Harry Styles and being invited to a recording session at Radio 4 (doing Media A-level)

I'd just call in sick tbh.

Go, but don't lie. It was all hushed up by the media of course😉 , but I understand two notable liars upstanding pillars of the US corporate community were recently caught on camera in the audience at a Coldplay concert, which may not have gone terribly well for them.

https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence It suggests here that you can't get fined after year 11. It implies that your son has to be enroled in full time education but that's it. Just be honest.

Well, obviously, he doesn't go! Sixth Form is short enough as it is, and A levels are hugely important. And it won't be many years before he's in work, so he needs to understand that you can't just bunk off whenever you feel like it.

The school will follow their process and it will likely be unauthorised, but no individual will really care. Don't lie, it will take the edge off his trip if he has to try and keep it secret.