Attendance
As a parent or carer of a child aged between 5 and 16 years, you are legally responsible for ensuring your child accesses a full-time education that meets their needs.
If children do not attend school regularly, they may not be able to keep up with school work. It's not only the academic work that suffers; missing out on the social side of school life can affect your child's ability to make and keep friends - a vital part of growing up.
Studies have shown that children who achieve at least 96% school attendance or above have the best outcome from their education.
Please see the following guidance for more information:
https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence
The school works with SEAAS to monitor and maintain our school attendance.
Punctuality
Being on time is also vital to your child's education. Arriving late is disruptive for your child, their teacher and other children in the class.
The morning register is taken at 8.35am; children are marked as late if they arrive in class after the register has been taken.
Registers close at 8:45am after this time children will then be marked as late (L code). U codes (unauthorised late) are used for children arriving after 9:15am.
If your child comes through the front office after this time, you must sign them in and your child will have a late mark.
The school day finishes at 3.05pm. Parents should be at school to collect their child/ren at these times. Parents who are not here when pupils are dismissed are late.
A record of late arrivals and pick-ups will be kept by office staff. A member of SLT will monitor the information provided letters will be sent home accordingly.
Pupil Absence
If your child is ill and is unable to attend school, you can report this via the Studybugs app before 8:30am.
You can also contact the school office via phone.
Phone: 01322 223382
Is my child too ill for school? - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
How to improve your child’s attendance
You can support your child’s regular attendance by ensuring:
- A clear bedtime routine is established, with alarms set in good time.
- Bags, lunch boxes and PE kits are organised and packed the night before they are needed, and homework is completed.
- Medical and dental appointments are organised outside of school hours wherever possible.
We would like to thank our parents for their continued support ensuring their children are attending school regularly and on time.
Holidays During Term Time
The ability of the Head Teacher and Governors to grant leave during term time was removed by the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013. These regulations came into effect on 1st September 2013 and specify that Head Teachers may not grant any leave of absence during term time unless there are exceptional circumstances.
All requests must be put in writing and will be referred to the Governing Body of the school.
If parents do take their child on holiday during term time, without the authority of the school then they can face the possibility of a fine.
We fully appreciate that holidays are far cheaper in term time, but taking children out of school has a dramatic impact on the learning opportunities available to the children.
