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STUDENTS LEAVING AFTER ‘GCSEs’

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Justme123123 · 30/04/2021 22:54

So our school have decided that the year11 students we have wont be leaving this year when they normally would , this would normally br after their final exam. Theyre grades will be in by then and everything done just wondering where we stand on this . They are literally being pulled from the rest if the school for a jolly 5 weeks as they will not be doing lessons, we are just finding it out

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Newrumpus · 01/05/2021 09:32

This is due to government pressure. It has been suggested that they should do some of the things they have missed out on; careers, transition, non-examined learning.

MrsHamlet · 01/05/2021 13:57

Where you stand in what sense?

CarrieBlue · 01/05/2021 15:02

Why do ‘we’ need to have a stand about this? Are you a parent or a teacher?

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Justme123123 · 01/05/2021 15:26

I am a carer of one of the students im just confused because actually that would be the time to go qnd get a part time job would it not. We have been sent the timetable and it is beach days and park days and i dont get it i just don’t understand it I have had a previous child within our home who left the same special school in yr 11 after her exams. They have not missed anything as they have been attending throughout lockdown as the school never shut it was fully staffed and they had all students attending mi us the odd one

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CarrieBlue · 01/05/2021 15:30

And why do we need a stand on it? The school have arranged activities - is this a bad thing? I don’t understand your point? Do you not want the extra month’s work?

Newrumpus · 02/05/2021 17:05

The leaving date is not school specific. It is national. Most schools usually ignore and set their own unofficial leaving date but the government is applying pressure to dissuade schools from doing that this year.

MrsHamlet · 02/05/2021 17:08

Students must remain on roll until the last Friday in June of the academic year in which they turn 16. "study leave" counts as absence

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Justme123123 · 02/05/2021 19:27

The unexpected expense personally chessington kayaking go ape was just asking what the deal is on where i stand and the other parents and carers because we are all like WHAT!!!

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MrsHamlet · 02/05/2021 19:37

That expense is unreasonable. Them keeping students longer than expected maybe less so

CarrieBlue · 02/05/2021 19:53

Oh, you mean time for the child to get a part time job? If you can’t afford trips that are part of the curriculum, the school has to fund it. If it’s a jolly, then the school will also have to fund it if there aren’t sufficient numbers of payments or the trip won’t go ahead. Staying until the end of June is legal every year, the schools usually accept the hit the attendance rate takes when students leave earlier.

Have you had full details from the school?

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