What are 10 permissable absence/holiday days?

[Shazzler]

I have just a thread which mentioned 10 permissable absence/holiday days.

I have never heard of these and wondered what they were and is it in all schools?

Schools are able to sanction up to 10 days absence from school for , mainly holidays.
Schools are now asked to set targets for absence. Any absences beyond 10 days are technically unauthorised.. unless the Head sanctions them. If the child is sick that is a different sort of absence and not included in this category. Beyond 2 weeks the school has or certainly had the right not to readmit a child. I have known that happen to a child in a popular school who was taken abroad for 6 weeks.

You may be entitled to take your child out of school for a total of 10 days at the discretion of the school and if there are special circumstances that warrant it.

Some parents see it as a green light to a cheap holiday but at our school they are very strict and there are only something like 2 criteria under which you can do this. For example, if the child has been through a traumatic experience such as a close family bereavement.

And with that I'm doing a great big PARP before this kicks off mighty fine!

Thank you. I was just wondering. I know our head is very strict about unauthorised absenses and just wondered what these 10 days were.

As I understand it, you can apply in advance for permission to take kids out of school for up to 10 days a year. It is not a right though but discretionary and therefore can be refused in which case the absence, and any over this timeframe, is unaccounted for ie. as truancy. Most schools state in their prospectus that they expect you to take holidays outside term time but this is probably more strictly enforced in the private sector.

GDG

We are in close and I mean close competition with the best school in the area, on a recent report we were only 1% point behind them, and they are a beacon school.

Turns out that despite a note home saying that SATs were imminent a certain individual took her child on holidays, thus dropping us to an undeserved 2nd place.

School had the last laugh (albeit hollow) she was fined by the LEA, and she thought it unfair.

I was ing for days

I have been advised though that it is a single authorised absence of up to 10 days, not several absences of 2 or more days at a time up to a total of 10.

So you can decide on a long weekend one term and a week's extra holiday the next.

They expect it here in Blackpool as many of us parents are hoteliers and our busiest times are school holidays - although most of us hoteliers are too skint to go on holiday anyway

OMG LGJ!!

Freckle - it's up to the school whether to allow odd days here and there or a full 10 days absense. Personally I think two weeks off is too much at once - they'd have so much catching up to do. Some parents in our school have done this though. I've only ever used this for long weekends. Our school is fairly OK about it, but will NOT approve absense in the summer term for children doing SATS until after the SATS are over which seesm reasonable to me.