Super Scientists/Esgate Education expects students to: 

• Attend and/or engage in all scheduled learning and teaching activities forming part of their programme of study. 

• Attend punctually and for the full duration of all such activities. 

• Make full use of the available resources to support their learning. 

Students are expected to participate in their learning, to try to take responsibility for their own development and through such engagement to demonstrate a positive attitude to their learning. 

We will monitor students in order to identify those whose attendance and engagement raises concerns that they may be experiencing difficulties.  

• Where attendance and / or engagement levels raise concerns, we will notify the service provider (County) to take appropriate steps to provide support. The initial focus will be on support and wellbeing for the student. 

• Continued attendance and / or engagement issues will trigger communications designed to encourage students to re-engage with their studies. 

• Following all interventions, where students are deemed to be no longer attending, their registration may be withdrawn and they will be reported, as applicable, to the County provider. 

Super Scientists/Esgate Education Tutors have the authority to grant short periods of absence to students for personal or religious reasons. We reserve the right to refuse any request for authorised absence where the pattern of attendance and engagement already gives cause for concern. 

Requests for authorised absence will be assessed on an individual basis, and where relevant, students may be advised to follow the mitigating circumstances or interruption of studies and engagement of learning. 

Monthly attendance figures are recorded (see separate monthly attendance figures document) and sent to the appropriate provider (County Council). 

Tutors wait for 15 minutes for students and if they do not attend after 15 minutes, they leave. This includes online and in person lesson unless other arrangements have been made with payment providers.  

This document was prepared by K.Esgate-Green  

Up-dated 11/1/25 and needs up-dating again 11/1/26