TEACHER absence

If the teacher needs to re-schedule or cancel your lesson (due to illness, family or professional commitments), a "re-scheduled lesson" will be offered according to the teacher's availability, or the lesson will not be charged for (credit applied for the following term/lesson).

ADVISED absence

"Advised" absences are those where notice is provided that a student will not be able to attend a scheduled lesson due to:

1. • school, family or other extra-curricular commitment = a minimum of 7-days notice

   • illness = a minimum of 24-hours notice

Lessons missed with the appropriate “advised absence” notice period provided will be re-scheduled within that term. (See "Rescheduled Lessons")

In any given term, a maximum of 2 rescheduled lessons will be offered for "advised" absences.

SHORT NOTICE absence

“Short notice” absences are those where a student is unable to attend a scheduled lesson due to unexpected illness or other valid, unexpected reason (eg. accident) - and less than 24-hours notice is provided.

For "short notice" absences, a cancellation fee (50% of the lesson duration scheduled) will be charged. This pays for the teacher’s time, which could have otherwise been offered to another student if sufficient notice had been provided.

Where possible and desired, the teacher will endeavour to re-schedule lessons missed on “short notice”.

Absence with NO NOTICE

Lessons missed without notice are forfeited (ie. full lesson charge) and not rescheduled.

EXTENDED absences

Commitment to private lessons "by the term" is for a full term of 8 lessons.

If a student needs to take leave from their scheduled lesson time during a term of more than 2 weeks (eg. for a holiday), resulting in their time slot being vacated for that period, all lessons will be charged for as normal. This will reserve their preferred weekly time slot.