School holiday "request" form

[Sickofthisdressandthesejimmychoos]

Can anyone help me with what to write on my leave of absence request for my sons' school please.

It's a week away abroad and they will miss 5 days of school.
The ultimate reason is that I simply can't afford to go in the holidays.

I do understand it will be refused and go down as unauthorised but still have to fill the form out so how can I word my reason nicely? It just feels awkward to me to put "I can't afford it any other time". Is there a better way to word this?

Gazelda the best idea I have come across to do something about the cost of holidays is for a school to group all their INSET days in one week, so a week off for children in term time so not odd days. As long as not all schools over a very wide area do it, holiday prices are unlikely to be hiked up by travel companies.

DC's primary did this, first week of September, it was fantastic.

I would just put family holiday. I filled in a request for dc2 to miss one day (today as it happens) and I put lots of detail in. It didn't get approved and it was hard not to take it personally.

We just put family holiday, I felt there was no point trying to justify it as I knew 100% it wasn't being authorised anyway.

I'm a school secretary and we wouldn't authorise it whether you say you can't afford it or whether you just put family holiday so it doesn't make any difference

I don't fill in the forms. I know they won't authorise it so I just email and say DS won't be in - I've only ever done it for a couple of days though - not a whole week.

I don't fill in forms if they have no benefit to me.

Surely you must have a seriously ill relative who lives abroad (somewhere hot and sunny) and this is your last chance to see them?
At least that’s what most of the forms used to say when I worked in a school office.