What to do if …?

You want to go on holiday in term time?
• You must fill in a Holiday Request Form (giving as much notice as possible)
• The school can refuse permission if you have already had lots of time off
• It is only intended for genuine family holidays

You feel ill
• Report to a subject teacher if you are in a lesson. They will decide whether or not to send you to the community secretary
• Report to your tutor or direct to the community secretary if it is out of lesson time
• You may be asked to sit quietly near the secretary’s office
• You may be sent to the medical room
• In exceptional circumstances you may be taken home or sent to hospital

If you want to go home for lunch
• You must bring a signed letter from your parents
• You will then be given a lunch pass

If you want to leave the school during the day
• You must report to the community secretary who will make the necessary arrangements depending upon the situation
• You must NOT leave the premises without permission, even if you have contacted home on a mobile phone

You are late in the morning
• Report to the community secretary
• Sign the late book if it is after 9.05am
• Pick up a late slip and get your subject teachers to sign it
• Give the slip to your tutor the next morning

You are late in the afternoon
• Collect a late slip form the nearest community secretary and go straight to your lesson
• Get your subject teacher to sign the late slip
• Hand it to your tutor the next day or hand it to the community secretary in your own community before you go home

You are on a school visit
• Make sure you return your reply slip to your teacher and pay your money at the Finance Office in the Sixth Form Centre main reception

You want to buy equipment
• Go to the Reprographics’ window at the back of the Sixth Form Centre