Absence & Illness | Andoversford Primary School

Absence Requests

Parents are responsible for making sure their children attend school regularly and on time. If your child will have a planned absence from school, please complete an Absence Request form before they are due to be off school. Absence can only be authorised for a few reasons, such as to attend a medical appointment which cannot be made outside of school hours. In the case of illness, you can email or telephone the school to let us know that your child will not be attending.

Please follow this link or scan the QR code below to complete a request for planned absence: https://forms.office.com/e/80czUivFdN

When to keep your child off school?

It’s usually safe for you to send your child to school with mild illnesses, like a minor cough, runny nose or sore throat. However, children should stay at home if they have a high temperature.

The NHS have produced helpful guidance to help parents to make the decision about whether their child is too ill for school. This includes information on a range of common childhood illnesses and conditions, such as coughs, colds, chickenpox, measles and headlice.

Is my child too ill for school? - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

	Name	Format
Files

	Letter with Attendance Updates September 2024.pdf	.pdf
	GCC attendance leaflet for parents and carers.pdf	.pdf
	Caring for Children with Coughs.pdf	.pdf

Illness

If your child is unwell, please keep them at home until they are fully recovered. It is fairly common for younger children to catch lots of new bugs until they build up their resistance to new germs. If your child becomes ill during the school day, we will contact you to collect them. Please do so promptly.

If your child has a contagious illnesses, they are not permitted in school until the quarantine period is over. This differs for each illness so please check.

If your child has a vomiting bug or has diarrhoea they must not return to school for a full 48 hours after the last bout of illness otherwise they will infect the whole class and their teacher. This means that if your child is sick in the night, they cannot return for the following two days. Ideally, they should return after they have managed to hold down food for 24 hours too.

Should your child need to take a prescribed medication during the school day you will need to complete the agreement to administer medication - check the Letters & Forms Page for more details.