Exam Leave Application
A formal application form for students to request leave during exam periods, documenting the reasons, impact on studies, and conditions of approval.
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Greenwood International School EXAM LEAVE APPLICATION Student: Emma Thompson Year Group: Year 10 Parent/Guardian: James Thompson Date: 2026-09-01 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEAVE DATES Start Date: 2026-09-01 End Date: 2026-09-01 Exams Potentially Missed: [exams_missed] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REASON FOR LEAVE Please provide the reason for this leave request: □ Medical appointment (details: _______________) □ Family emergency □ Religious observance □ Pre-booked family commitment □ Other: _______________ Detailed explanation: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMPACT ASSESSMENT Exams affected: [exams_missed] If this leave is approved, the student will: • Miss revision time for [Subjects] • Need to catch up on [Work] • Be responsible for completing [Tasks] before departure The student accepts that: • No special arrangements will be made for missed exams • Any grade impact is the student's responsibility • Catch-up work must be completed on return ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL If approved, the following conditions apply: 1. All assigned work must be completed before departure 2. The student must attend all exams falling within the leave period 3. A catch-up plan must be agreed with subject teachers 4. The student must sit any missed exams on resit dates (if available) 5. Attendance upon return will be monitored ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DECISION □ Approved □ Approved with conditions □ Not approved Comments: _______________ Head of Year: [Head of Year Name] Date: _________ Parent Signature: _________________ Date: _________ Student Signature: ________________ Date: _________ Greenwood International School
About This Template
An application form for planned absence during exams with dates, reasons and staff approval, documented before the leave is granted.
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Topics this template covers: exam leave · leave application · absence request · exam absence
How to Use This Template
Enter Leave Start Date and Leave End Date, then list Exams Potentially Missed with dates and papers — this is what the decision hinges on. Complete Reason for Leave and Impact Assessment (catch-up work, access arrangements).
State Conditions of Approval in advance (work submitted before departure, remote check-ins) and record the DECISION with Head of Year Name and date. Submit at least four weeks before the leave; late applications are refused for good reason, and the form documents both the request and the outcome.
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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