Teacher emailing on first morning Dd ill

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Is this normal practice?

Dd was off school ill yesterday for the first time since September in a new class with a new teacher.
I had an email from the teacher yesterday lunchtime saying that dd wasn’t in school and asking if everything is ok.
She’s 6

Dh says it’s nice she was asking, never had this before, we would just come back whenever better and I’d give Dd a note to pass to the teacher or just do nothing-are we supposed to?

Don't you have to phone the school absence line to say why she's off? If I forget to do this, the school will have phoned me before the morning is out.

Had you let the school office know you’d be keeping her off?

Did you call the school in the morning to let them know she wasn’t going to be in?

At our school you are meant to send them an email or use the app to declare absence and reason as soon as you know they're off.

I've never not had to do this in 17 years of parenting.

I would expect and hope that if we just didn't turn up that they would get in touch.

Normal practice is to call the school so that they don't have to contact you first.

I am abroad so have not heard about this type of rule. I was going to email today if she was still ill and not back in-she’s still ill. It didn’t happen in other classes

If you didn't advise them of her continuing absence I would think an email would be standard practice.

Did you phone attendance with a reason? We need clarification if we don’t hear a reason from parents.

YABU if you hadn’t let the school know she was off school ill. If you had then maybe there was a breakdown in communication between the person you told she was off and her teacher.

Yes I would expect that after a bit of time, I was just surprised at the speed at which she emailed, probably because it hasn’t happened before

So she's been off ill before and no-one called or emailed the check in on her / you?

I know everyone complains about the UK being a nanny state etc but it's reassuring for me that these things are checked.

In the UK it’s standard to contact the school and tell them that your child won’t be in today. If they are are ill for a second, third day… then you contact them each day so they know that the child is at home with the parent.

If you are in a country where kids walk to school without an adult then you and the school wouldn’t know if your child had been in an accident or something that happened on the way.

Schools require notification on first day of absence.
Ours sends a message by lunchtime the same day if you havnt rung in

Do you mean you live outside the uk? It’s standard practice in the uk to contact the school when your child if off.

We’ve only been absent a few times for at most two days, no one contacted us, I assume they would if it was longer

I think what I find surprising is that the teacher sent an email, and that you saw it.

I did not think email was much used outside of work now.

When our DD was that age, the teacher had a social media group chat with the parents to send messages. And from the group they could send individual messages of course.

Maybe it's public health policy of the school ? My DD's school has temperature limits now. Get over a certain temp, and not allowed back for a set number of days after temperature returns to normal.

Check your school policy. We have to phone school to let them know about any absence before the school day starts, on every day of absence. We have always done this so I don’t know what would happen if we didn’t but I’d expect a phone call or email from the school after the register had been taken to find out why they weren’t in class and check they were ok.

Am I supposed to call in each day or just the first day?

UK schools will be each day. Assume most absence procedures follow the same rule?

Yes outside the uk

It's absolutely standard practice, I would imagine in most places, to contact the school before the day starts to advice they're not in.

Very basic safeguarding for the school to contact you. What if you had dropped them off and something had happened before they got into class and they went missing and no one contacted you?

In my opinion, they completely dropped the ball by not contacting you the last time.

Its completely standard & common courtesy to ring and let school know if you aren't sending your child in. They need to mark different things in the register depending on if the child is ill, or off for a ballet/music exam, or on an unauthorised holiday.

Very standard practice in the U.K….do you not have a school safeguarding policy at yours child’s school ?

The previous teacher was on the class Whatsapp and we could message them on it. This teacher isn’t on this class WhatsApp, which is fine. I do check my emails once-twice a day luckily, but would prefer if she was on the WhatsApp
I think that’s why it felt a bit more formal than previously

They wouldn't be able to send a message about a private issue such as a child's absence on a WhatsApp group with everyone on it.