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Attendance
Our whole school target for attendance is 97%+.
For your child to achieve and be their best, good attendance is vital. Term time holidays are not authorised and could result in fines being issued by the Local Authority.
If your child is not able to attend school, please notify us by phone to let us know and explain your child’s absence. In order to ensure the safety and well-being of your child, we will contact you if we have not received notification from you. A home visit will take place if we have no contact by midday.
The headteacher decides whether or not to authorise an absence. Any persistent absences with no reason given or regular lateness will be referred to our Attendance Champion as will any child whose attendance falls below 95%. This is to offer support and work with you collaboratively.
We are currently trialling attendance certificates, awarded at the end of each term. Any child with 97% or better attendance will receive a certificate of congratulations.
Punctuality
Being late for school makes it hard for your child to learn and valuable morning routines are lost. If your child is 30 minutes late each day, they are missing a half day of school every week. If your child is late by 10 minutes every day, they will miss the equivalent of one week’s learning in a year.
If your child arrives in school after 9.20 am – they will be marked as absent (U- Unauthorised) for the whole morning, this affects their percentage attendance drastically.
The following shows the link between % attendance at school and number of days absent.
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- 98% = less than 4 days absent in one school year
- 95% = 10 days absent in one school year
- 90% = 4 weeks absent in one school year
- 85% = 5 ½ weeks absent in one school year
- 80% = 7 ½ weeks absent in one school year.
If your child is unable to attend school
If your child is unable to attend school, please inform us as soon as possible either by telephone on 0113 261 1804 or e-mail, leaving your child’s full details i.e. full name, class and reason for absence.
If we do not receive any information, we will contact you to find out why your child is absent.