DP's brother & girlfriend have just announced their wedding date this May, which happens to be on the Friday of SATs week.
They live at least an 8 hour drive away so we need to leave at the latest as school finishes on the Thursday, but that means DD will miss the Friday's tests. On any other week we would probably have left on the Weds night and just taken her out of school for 2 days.
Obviously we don't want to miss a family wedding (DP will go on his own if needs be), but I was considering asking school if DD is able to re-take the Friday's tests the following week instead - am I going to get laughed out of the door?
IIRC these are the ones that count towards school league tables, but how essential are they for DD personally? She will be going to a state comp secondary school (haven't found out which one yet) and I'm wondering if it will affect which set she is put in (do they do sets still in Year 7?) she is bright and gets good results each year and I would hate for this to affect her confidence if her results are lower than usual (tbh my instinct is that at 11 yo they are too young to be taking 'exams' anyway)
Your thoughts and comments will be much appreciated.