Sick notification at school

What you need:

• School rules
• Mail address of the school secretariat
• School phone number
• doctor

A sick note also applies to schoolchildren

• If you have school-age children, you will repeatedly find yourself in the situation that your child cannot go to school because of illness.
• In this case, you should send your child a sick note to the school. Otherwise it can happen that your child has unexcused absenteeism on the certificate. It is also important for school to know why your child is doing this classes stay away.
• In the case of contagious diseases, including head lice, special rules apply. They serve to prevent it from spreading in school.

You should report to school in good time

• If your child is ill and cannot go to school, the type of sick note is usually stipulated in the school regulations. In most schools, however, the procedure is not very different from one another. Nevertheless, you should read the school rules carefully so that you do not go wrong if your child becomes ill.
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• In general, you should report your child to school in the morning before school starts. You can either send the sick note to the school secretariat by telephone, leave a message on the answering machine or write an email to the school.


Write sick note - that's how it works

If you would like to write a sick note for your employer or school, you should ...

• State who you are, name him Names and your child's class and the name of the class leader. Asking a classmate to apologize for your child to the teacher is definitely not enough.
• In most elementary and middle schools, it is usually sufficient to inform the school. From the third day of absence, most schools require a doctor's certificate stating that your child will not be able to attend school and how long it is likely to be absent. You should submit this sick note personally to the school if possible.
• In high school or when your child is of legal age, many schools require a doctor's certificate on the first day of illness.
• If you or your child develops an infectious disease as an adult at school, you need to do so before You go back to school, a certificate that you are no longer contagious or that there are no more lice.