If your child's school is using this feature, then you will be able to submit a reason for your child's absence once they have been marked absent on the roll.

Once they have been marked absent by the class teacher it will then be possible for you to submit a reason for each date they have been marked absent.

You can enter an absence reason from the homepage via the "Attendance Notes" section.

For parents who do not use the Aladdin app, you can now put in reasons for unexplained absences from the Home page of Aladdin when logged in via any browser.

If your child has been absent, has been sent home from school sick, or is returning to school after a school closure, you may have the option to fill out a return to school declaration form.

You will see that a declaration is required but you will not be able to fill it in until after 3pm on the day before your child will return to school.

If your child is marked absent on a Friday, or will return to school after a school closure on a Monday, you will not be able to fill in the declaration until 3pm on Sunday.

The reason you cannot complete the form until 3pm on the day before your child will return to school is to make sure that the declaration is completed in as appropriate a time for your child's return to school as possible.

To complete the Return to School Declaration form, simply tick your child's name, tick the box to declare that you have no reason to believe that your child has an infectious disease etc. and tap Send to send the declaration to the school.

When your child is marked absent, you will see that a Return to School Declaration will be required, however, you cannot fill this in until after 3pm on the day they are marked absent.

This moves to Sunday at 3pm for an absence on a Friday.

If your child will be absent, if your school is using the attendance notes feature, you can let the school know by choosing the “My child will be absent” option.

On the app, tap “Attendance & Notes”, tap “My child will be absent”, and

Step 1 - Choose the child(ren) who will be absent
 
Step 2 - Choose the absence reason
 
Step 3 - Enter the date(s) of the absence, enter a note if you wish and click Send.

If your child(ren) will be late, you can let the school know by choosing the “My child will be late” option.

**You will only see this option if your child's school is using the attendance notes feature.**

On the app home page, tap “Attendance & Notes”, then “My child will be late”

then
Step 1 - Tap the child(ren) who will be late and tap Next.
Step 2 - Enter the date the child(ren) will be late to school, the expected time they will arrive (if known) and the reason if required and tap Send.
The late arrival note will be sent.

If your child needs to be collected early from school on a certain day, if your school is using the attendance notes feature, you can let the school know by choosing the “My child will be collected early” option.

On the app, tap “Attendance & Notes”, then “My child will be collected early”

then,

Step 1 - Tap the child(ren) who will be collected early.
Step 2 - Enter the date, time, who the child(ren) will be collected by, enter a note if necessary and click Send.
The early leaving note will be sent

From a browser, on the Home page, click My child will be collected early in the “Attendance Notes” block.

Step 1 – Choose the child(ren) who will be collected early and click Next.
Step 2 – Enter the date, time, who the child(ren) will be collected by, enter a note if necessary and click Send
The early leaving note will be sent.

If your child’s school is using the feature to allow parents to send messages and notes to the school you will be able to send a message to your child’s teacher and/or the school office via Aladdin Connect.

You can click on the "Contact School" button on your Noticeboard.

Also, you have the option in your Aladdin Connect app from the Attendance Notes block; “Send message to school”.

Simply click on “Send message to school” to send a message to the school.

If a parent needs to view any of the attendance notes they have sent to the school they can click on “View my notes” from within the “Attendance & Notes” block on their browser / via the app:

Parents can view their sent notes and messages to the school from the Noticeboard. From the app, tap the “Noticeboard” block and then tap “Show all”.

Parents can also view notes from the "Noticeboard" tab of their child's profile in Aladdin Connect.

Parents can delete attendance notes, however, they cannot delete parent notes (messages to the school). If they wish to edit or change any parent note they have sent they would need to create a new note instead

If you are using the Advance Attendance Notes feature of Aladdin Connect (located under Connect - Settings on the "Attendance" tab, parents can enter absences up to 30 days in advance. Absences can be up to 15 days in duration.

If your school is using the attendance notes feature, you can easily delete an attendance note if you need to.
You can click “View my notes” to view all your recently submitted notes.

In the app, tap “Attendance Notes” and then “View my notes”.
Attendance notes are listed here. It is possible to delete a note if a mistake has been made, or your plans change, or the note was submitted in error.
To delete a note, simply tick the box to the left of the note you wish to delete and click / tap Delete Selected Notes.

If you don’t see the option to enter an attendance note this may be because your school has not switched on this option.
Once the setting for attendance notes has been switched on, you will have some or all of the following new options within “Attendance Notes” on your browser / via the app:

• My child will be absent
• My child will be late
• My child will be collected early
• View my notes