Unexplained Absence Parent Notification

NOTIFICATION OF UNEXPLAINED ABSENCE Dear , We are writing to inform you that {{student_name}} was recorded as absent from school on {{date_of_absence}}. This absence was not explained in advance. Under our attendance policy, we are required to follow up on all unexplained absences. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABSENCE DETAILS Student: Date of Absence: Class/Year Group: Absence Type: Unexplained ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACTION REQUIRED Please contact us by to explain the reason for this absence. If your child was ill, please provide: • The date the illness started • Whether a medical appointment was attended • A medical certificate if the absence exceeds 3 consecutive days If the absence was for another reason (family event, religious observance, etc.), please let us know so we can update our records. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONTACT US Phone: Email: If we do not receive a response by {{reply_deadline}}, we will assume the absence was unauthorised and this will be recorded on {{student_name}}'s permanent attendance record. We appreciate your partnership in ensuring {{student_name}}'s regular attendance. Yours sincerely, [Attendance Officer Name]