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Attendance

Trainee Teachers are expected to attend each day and for the agreed times. A record of attendance must be maintained on each Weekly Review Form which is to be signed by the Teacher Mentor.

If a student is unable to attend school due to a sickness, they must:

1) Follow the school policy for reporting an absence

2) Inform their Personal Tutor and Visiting Tutor

3) Email pripgce@le.ac.uk

4) Fill in the CSSAH Notification of Absence form: CSSAH Notification of Absence (office.com)

For each subsequent day of the sickness absence you must also email by 8:00am or as soon as practical.

If your sickness absence persists for longer 7 consecutive days, you must submit a doctor’s fit note to the school.

For other absences, a student must email their placement school’s HT and also the PGCE Head of Course (Ben) and Primary PGCE office to request a leave of absence.

The following requests will be considered: 

  • Medical appointments which cannot be arranged outside the hours of the course, providing documentation to the PGCE office.  
  • Compassionate leave or significant life events (such as an immediate family wedding or your own graduation)  
  • Religious festivals

Trainees are advised routine dentist check-ups, eye tests etc. should, where possible, be booked during their free time e.g. at the end of a day, weekends, holidays.

The university requires us to monitor attendance when trainees are on attachment/placement and has set procedures that must be followed in this respect. For convenience, we are now asking trainees to report their attendance on Blackboard, when they submit their ‘Weekly Review Meeting Record’.

It is the expectation that you register your attendance on a Friday through the “Primary PGCE Phase 3” page of Blackboard. Your attendance is monitored by both your personal tutor and the head of course.