Ds (12) has an exemplary attendance record at school, until recently he’d had only one day off but before half term fell ill and had 2 whole weeks off with a virus which resulted in infection.
I kept school up to date calling them every day as requested.
I’ve just received an email from his form tutor asking me to come to a face to face meeting at 7:45am one morning next week with ds. I think it’s about catching up with missed work, the final paragraph of the email explains that he has been in touch with his other teachers asking for missing work.
Just asking if this is normal in your experience, I have had 2 dc go through the same school but they’ve never had more than a day or two off themselves so it’s not something that’s happened with us before.
I have worked in education for many years until recently although in primary and we didn’t provide work to catch up on if kids had been off ill although I suppose we may have done if the parents specifically asked for it! I understand the importance of attendance and the implications of non attendance in terms of gaps in knowledge so in principal if the meeting is about the missing work being caught up on i do understand, I think I’m just a bit taken aback!
Has anyone else had similar happen!