oh no just booked holiday and when i got home ds got ks2 sats

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will he have to retake them? will we get fined

Why will he be in bottom sets for everything at secondary school? They will do their own assessments, especially if you tell them in advance that he missed his KS2 SATS. My god, even if you cancel the holiday he could be ill and miss them.

What a load of panic-mongers on here.

Mind you, I thought schools were very clear that they would not authorise absence when SATS are on and so tell parents when they are miles in advance. And what was wrong with May half term for a holiday? You say it's too expensive but that is only packages - a lot of places price by time of year rather than by school holidays and May and October half terms are a lot cheaper than the summer. Personally I think schools should have to allocate 2 of their INSET days either side of May half term because for me it is the absolute best time to go away and it would give you more time but this year we have to go in August due to childminder hols. Oh well!

I have just booked a 2 week holiday in term time (although got stoned for it on here).

My dd is in a strict catholic secondary school, I wrote them a long letter, telephoned the head of year who said that she may miss a couple of tests but they will be happy to let her re-sit on her return, she also said that time with the family was important and as dd has an excellent attendence record they would not take the matter further.
The LEA were similarly unconcerned.

I think as long as your child attends school regularly and this is not a usual thing, then they accept that these things happen.

Talk to your headteacher, it will be fine

lol at 'no holidays will be sanctioned' as if theyre asking for early release from top security jail. Its primary school fgs

I'm a teacher, so can never do term time holidays, but if I was in your shoes I would go on holiday, much more important than SAT fgs.

well an update ( maybe anyway) phoned the holiday company we trying to change it still in term time though and its cosing me!! we only found out about the test days on this
last day as they broke up so not much notice on there behalf.

he dont have much time off only for illness and app not had an holiday in two years since dd was born and shes been in and out of hospital and still an ill child, so tbh my family come first so if that means spending time out of school so be it!

Yous are good. I wouldn't have fretted too much about KS1 SATs. I didn't even know when DS did his, and neither did he.

Schools have to get arsey about term time holidays. Dc's school got a fab OFSTED, attendance being the only real issue, and the inspector wrote to each child asking them to tell thir parents not to take them on holiday in term time

lololol at the idea that if a child doesn't take their SATS they get put in bottom set for everything!
yeah RIGHT

I persoally wouldn't take DD out of school for a general holiday. i would for some special event such as a wedding or to visit distant relatives abroad if necessary though.

However, and despite having been a teacher for 10 years, I really don't think young children will come to much harm if they miss a week of school once a year.

I did every year. My dad's shut don weeks were always in term time back then, so it was go then or not at all. And families do benefit from wind down time together and this can be more beneficial to them than a week of school. It never caused a problem education wise. We always caught up with our work, with no fuss. Both myself, my brother and my sister did fine in our education and that week once a year never held us back.

lol it did worry me ds is the top f his class he can spell and read and do maths better than me

SATs wouldn't bother me TBH. SATs are to assess how a school is doing. I don't like SATs full stop so my child missing them wouldn't really bither me.

And a secondary school would NOT put a child in bottom sets just because they missed their sets. Setting is done by a range of means in Y7, inc teacher assessments, internal assessments/tests and SATs (not just SATs) and usually very early on in Y7 the schools will do tests such as CAT tests and reset again.