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Taking children out of school to go travelling

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katyszarko · 13/10/2014 15:03

Hi,
We would like to take our children travelling to South East Asia (my husband has family in Thailand) for 2 months. My DS is 6 and my DD is 9. We are planning to go next December. Our daughter will be taking her SATS in the May. I've read the blogs about the relevance of SATS etc but we don't think this opportunity will ever present itself to us again and we think it will be an amazing experience for our kids.

Would we be making a big mistake and could we jeopardise our DDs secondary education? Any teachers out there that have an opinion on this?
Our meeting with the head teacher has left us a bit deflated.
Thank you

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chickenfajitaswithnachos · 14/10/2014 15:17

I am a complete long haul holiday/travelholic and no way would I risk messing up my DC's school places for a trip. I would either go for three to four weeks at Christmas or somewhere with better weather in the summer.
You can pack lots in a three week trip with some short internal flights. We saw and experienced loads with the DC when we went to South America and to South Africa without missing any school.
I agree with Alpha

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