Cuthbertson Primary School Handbook - Glasgow City Council ...

Parents’ Workshops
We run very successful Pre-entrant courses for the parents of children who are about to
start Nursery and P1. We have curricular workshops covering topics such as
developing literacy and numeracy. Parents in Primary One and Two attend workshops
for Play Along Maths, a home-school project that helps develop children’s mathematical
skills. For the last three years we have run specific targeted Home Link projects to
encourage children to develop their learning outside of school.
Additional Parent’s Meetings are held on specific issues as they arise to inform parents
about administration or curricular issues or health and safety issues e.g. homework,
health, sexual health, drug misuse.
Parent Helpers are encouraged to help with trips, events and active learning in the
classroom. Any parent interested in this should contact Mrs Hannah.
Attendance at School
Section 30 of the 1980 Education Act lays a duty on every parent/carer of a child or
young person of ‘school age’ to ensure that their child or young person attends school
regularly. Attendance must be recorded twice a day, morning and afternoon.
Regulation 7 of the Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Amendment,
etc., Regulations 1993 requires each child’s absence from school to be recorded in the
school register as authorised: e.g. approved by the authority, or unauthorised: e.g.
unexplained by the parent/carer (truancy) or excluded from school
Every effort should be made to avoid family holidays during term time as this both
disrupts the child’s education and reduces learning time. Parents should inform the
school by letter, before going on holiday, of the dates. Such absence will be authorised
only where attendance is otherwise satisfactory. Clearly, where attendance is
unsatisfactory, absence is unauthorised.
Parents/carers do not have an automatic right to take their child out of school without
permission during term-time. The Head of Establishment can only authorise time off
during term-time in exceptional circumstances.
Exceptional circumstances include:
short-term parental placement abroad;
family returning to its country of origin for family reasons;
the period immediately after an illness or accident
a period of serious or critical illness of a close relative;
a domestic crisis which causes serious disruption to the family home, causing
temporary relocation.
Time off during term-time for the following reasons is not acceptable and will be
recorded as unauthorised absence:
Availability of cheap holidays or desired accommodation;
Holidays which overlap the beginning or end of term.
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