Missed Work Recovery Plan
A plan for students returning after extended absence, detailing which work needs to be completed, support available, adjusted deadlines, and check-in schedule.
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Greenwood International School MISSED WORK RECOVERY PLAN Student: Emma Thompson Absence Period: 2026-09-01 – 2026-09-01 Reason: [absence_reason] Return Date: 2026-09-01 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MISSED WORK SUMMARY Subject Missed Lessons Key Assignments Support Available ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Mathematics [X] [Assignment names] [Lunchtime support day] English [X] [Assignment names] [After-school session] Science [X] [Assignment names] [Peer support group] [Other] [X] [Assignment names] [Details] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ADJUSTED DEADLINES To avoid overwhelming Emma Thompson on their return, deadlines have been adjusted: [Assignment 1]: Extended to [Date] [Assignment 2]: Extended to [Date] [Assignment 3]: Extended to [Date] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHECK-IN SCHEDULE Weekly check-ins with [form_tutor]: • Week 1: Monday and Thursday • Week 2: Monday • Week 3: Monday (if settled) Fortnightly check-in with [head_of_year] for 6 weeks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Signatures: Parent: _________________ Date: _________ [form_tutor] Form Tutor [head_of_year] Head of Year
About This Template
A catch-up plan listing missed work by subject, deadlines and support sessions, agreed with the pupil and parents after an absence.
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Topics this template covers: recovery plan · return to school · catch-up work · extended absence
How to Use This Template
Fill Absence Start Date, Reason for Absence and Return to School Date, then ask subject teachers for their input on Missed Work Summary by Subject so the list is complete, not what one adult remembers.
Agree Adjusted Deadlines that are ambitious but achievable, and set Check-In Schedule — a weekly five-minute form-tutor catch-up works well. Name Form Tutor and Head of Year, review with the family in the first week back, and mark tasks complete as they are submitted so the plan visibly shrinks.
When to Use This Template
First unexplained absence
Send the initial follow-up the day after an absence is recorded, asking for a reason and setting a reply deadline while the details are still fresh.
Patterns of repeated absence
When absences repeat, escalate with the same template: include the attendance percentage against the policy threshold and the support being offered.
Logging calls and meetings
Record every contact attempt — phone calls, letters and meetings — with dates and outcomes so the attendance file shows a complete, dated trail if the case escalates.
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