If your DC is in Sixth Form....

[Lemondrops40]

Hi,

My DD has just started year 13 and her new timetable is a bit awkward, in that she has a couple of days where her lessons don't start until late morning/afternoon.

Is your DC allowed to go in later, I.e miss registration and go straight to their lessons?

DD insisted that her classmates don't bother going in for registration if they don't start until later and there are often only half the form there, but I just checked attendance and those days have been marked as late.

If this was an issue, wouldn't they have told DD?

Just wondered what the norm was.

TIA

My DD's 6th form college doesn't have morning registration, they take a register at the beginning of each lesson and a lesson missed is taken as an absence, even if they attend every other lesson that day. Free periods are theirs to do as they wish.

She tends to go in for the whole day to see friends in free periods and get work done/ see teachers if needed. Others just go in for actual lessons.

Hmm OK, so seems like a mixed bag then.

I'm hoping it will be a case by case situation. It would really suck for DD if not, as there aren't many places for her to work in peace and she doesn't have many friends, so would find it particularly difficult.

I've got two DC in the same School linked Sixth Form, one in Yr12 one in Yr13.

Out of both of their timetables only one of them has a lesson after registration for the whole week!! One lesson. An utter ball ache as it would ease congestion around the school no end if kids with no lessons first thing could get there for their first lesson rather than registration. Stupid IMO

My DC's sixth form has a mandatory registration but then encourages everyone to stay in the building for their free periods however this is a very modern building (think more like a business than a school) so it has a hang out area but also a huge study area where the noise level is low. They are encouraged to use their free periods to get the homework done and then can ask any questions of the teachers either there and then if they are free or at the end of the day when all staff are free for 30 minutes to help any student who wants it. Their individual grade increase is incredible, each child helped and encouraged.

Ds2 has finished this summer, but they didn't have "morning" registration they were just registered at each lesson.

He did have lessons everyday, but not everyone did, and they didn't have to go in if they didn't have lessons.