A short 4 day holiday has not been authorised!!

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My daughter has 98% attendence in her junior school and i have sent in a holiday form asking for her to have 4 days of for a short break with family and i explained it had already been paid for and they will not authorise it as the target for SCHOOL attendence is not within goverment guidlines of 95%! Well in was not happy with this dicision as 1:shes never had a holiday 2:her other 2% abcensses were coz she was ill and authorised and 3: its not my problem about the whole school goverment snitzel bla bla

What does everyone think to this considering shes got 98% attendence ? The reason im annoyed is that A ive already paid and B i dont wanna b fined for 4 rare days outta school

I feel like taking her back with me when we come down.Just so she can have holiday.Bless her.I'm sorry they won't authorize it.4days.you'd think you'd said months

Because its SUN VOUCHERS

What gets me is sum people on here are very bitchy assuming i dont care for my daughters education when i very much do this is just an oppurtunity for her to enjoy her 1st holiday which is also to see family aswell which i also wrote on hol form. The sealife centre is educational in itself a she will be learning about various sealife creatures and when we go to the zoo she will get to learn about all the animals. Yes i made the mistake of paying beforehand but in all honesty i didnt expect to be told it was unauthorised, yeah was stupid of me but everyone makes mistakes

But thats the problem isnt it teachers get paid a lot more than an average factory worker therfore can holiday in the holiday as u say. Oh and just point me & partner get 3 weeks of a year!!! U teachers get the 6 week break then all the half terms aswell not being rude but this is true as i know sum teachers. Not against them in anyway but 3 weeks aint a lot

Bitchy?

So true ponders, it was the same when i was at school. Its becoming a nanny state to which we are told what to do all the time, this country is way out of hand on all the wrong things. Fair enough step up on truancy but not to this degree

Don't worry about it.You get them everywhere.Keep your chin up

3 weeks is illegal! The statutory minimum so 28 days, so 5.6 weeks.

Teachers do not get paid for non-term times, so their holidays may be long but they are unpaid.

If you can't afford a holiday, then you can't afford one- we camp, in the UK because that is what we can afford. (I mean sites that cost £10 per night, not fancy places with hook-ups, pools, and club houses etc)

I shall have a cuppa tea and a then go to sleep no point worrying ablut something that mite never happen. Life too short as we know rubygloom , u never know whats around the corner so goodnite peeps. One day just one day some of u may realise why family time is just as as important as education time

so? sorry- 'is'

School is only 190 days per year- plenty of time for family time in the other days!

Awwww don't explain yourself to them.You know why family times important.Camping pfft.I find it hard it hard enough camping with 2 let alone 4 and thats with pool club house and tv.

Not if ur at work and the child is in childcare! Not all us parents can have all the holidays off

Just go on the holiday and enjoy yourselves. You've made a perfectly valid decision to take your children for a nice break at a time you can afford. Don't spend another moment worrying about the school's decision. And don't let the kids see your stress. Have fun. Worry about the fine IF it happens.

You have been given a very hard time and being defensive.Understandable.Have an opinion but some comments are spiteful.I'll always stick up for you.Love you lots x

centreparcs january £199, August, £1500
Loire Valley May £280 for 3 weeks, inc ferry, school hols, £800 PER WEEK

I will be taking my DCs out of school, I want to build a lifetime of memories for them. I do take mine camping and they love it, but I want a few weeks with them with the pool, the weather, I want them to see nature in a different country, bug hunt in the sunshine, I want a time of seeing them splash, of spending a wonderful holiday with me.

When I was in school travel was seen as good for you, now our children are expected to read about it in books and magazines.

If travel doesnt broaden the mind, why do so many senior school take trips abroad??

Foreign travel is going to become the province of the rich and high earner at this rate.

The school could also adopt a flexible policy and sign it off as other educational experience rather than dismiss it out of hand.

Teachers do get paid for the holidays - I have a few friends who have planned pregnancies/return to work dates where they return for a few days at the end of the summer term, in order to be paid over the summer hols and have the additional time off. Also they dont have to find childcare for the DCs in the school hols.

And the reason why family time is soo important to my sis is cos we lost our brother a few years ago in his teens.We never thought he would die,but he did..Theres things he didnt get a chance to do.My sis just cannot afford turn times.If she could she would have gone ages ago

ruby- I don't particularly enjoy camping either, but it's all we can afford. It would be a cold day in hell before I take my children out of school for a holiday

Love ya we know the true meaning of life is short lets hope this miniority of spiteful mn never have to find out what that actually means as it tears ur heart out like u never thought possible. Miss u and hope to see u soon

justalittleinsane - their salary is calculated based on contact time, and then divided into 12 equal payments. And as most teachers IME spend at least a week, often 2 in school over summer, they do still require childcare over the holidays.

U took the words right out of my mouth justalittle insane: family memorys-and im going to enjoy it with my children whether david cameron likes it not

Oh dear lord!

OP, make sure when your DC return to school they tell everyone about what a lovely time they had. I hope they glow.

Why didn't you book for the long weekend instead of the four day midweek? Then you only need to take one day off if you leave straight from the school gate - that's what we do with Sun hols.
And are you being annoyed with the TD day being on the last day of term because it means you can't use it for a Sun Hols? In which case you are being very U, the rest of us would much rather TD days were tacked on to the beginning or end of holidays not a wet Wednesday in March.

Foreign language exchange trips take place during term time, IME. Schools seem to be able to cope with that