If your child is going to be absent from school in order to go to the dentist, optician or hospital, etc., please let us know by means of a note to the class teacher and a telephone call into the office. To request other types of absence, please complete the form below.

If your child is absent through illness, you should let us know by telephoning the school on the morning of absence and sending a note to the class teacher when your child returns to school.

Download the Absence Request Form by clicking here.

48 Hour Sickness Rule

From time to time children are sick (vomit) either at home or at school. Unfortunately it is not possible to distinguish between the causes, and therefore it is essential that the same rule of exclusion applies in all cases

of vomiting or diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea and/or vomiting commonly affects children and staff and can be caused by a number of different germs, including viruses, parasites and bacteria. In general, it is recommended that any staff member or child with diarrhoea and/or vomiting symptoms must stay away or be excluded from the school until they have

been free of symptoms for 48 hours (the ‘48 hour rule’) and feel well.

If your child is sick at school, we will ask you or your emergency contact to take your child home. They should not return for 48 hours to the school premises. We appreciate that this is inconvenient in many cases, and you may not believe your child is ill, but you will appreciate that we do this in all cases and it should reduce the risk of infection for all children in school. As an example, if your child is sick at lunchtime on a Tuesday, they should not return to school until after lunch on Thursday, provided there have not been any further episodes of vomiting and/or diarrhoea.