Attendance
Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
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Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
Thank you all for your continued support in getting your children to school every day and on time.
There has been a lot of discussion in the news lately regarding children’s school attendance and how it needs to improve. As we all know, we had a difficult few years due to the pandemic. However, now we are getting back to normal, non-attendance and leave of absence taken in term time will be monitored closely.
It is important that your child arrives in school on time (8.30am) so that they are able to gain the most from their daily education. Disruption is caused when any child arrives late and this disruption is not limited only to your child but also to other children in the class.
Please be reminded, we ask that children attend school every day but we understand that children do have genuine illnesses. Each child’s attendance is looked at on an individual basis. Mrs Silverwood and Mrs Fearnley, our Attendance Leads, will be working closely with parents to support with any issues arising that impacts their child attending school. Failure to inform school when your child is absent could potentially result in a safeguarding issue.
If your child’s attendance raises concerns, the following steps will be implemented:
School leaders are unable to authorise any leave of absence during term time for a family holiday. Parents wishing to take their children out of school during term time will need to complete a Leave of Absence form which you can obtain from the school office.
All holidays will be classed as unauthorised and any greater than 5 days (10 school sessions) will be submitted to the local authority for a fixed penalty notice. However, we will consider requests for “exceptional circumstances” on a case by case basis and will respond to you in writing with our decision. Our leave of absence forms are available at the school office and we must have 4 weeks to consider and respond to your request unless there is an emergency. If this occurs, please contact us to discuss first.
If your child is unable to attend school, please notify us as soon as possible: Contact us
Contact the school to report the absence and provide the reason and expected return date.
Keep the school informed of your child’s progress and update the expected return date where possible. Absences can be reported by phone or via the school’s dedicated absence email: Contact us
If we haven’t heard from you by a set time (usually 9:30 am), a member of the school’s administration team will contact you to confirm the reason for absence.
Parents and carers are legally responsible for ensuring their child attends school regularly and punctually. Failure to do so could result in legal action by the local authority.
Under the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 2006, only the school can authorise an absence – not parents or carers.
Time off for holidays during term time is not a legal right. Any request for a leave of absence must be made in advance by completing an absence form and submitting it to the school office. If a holiday is taken without permission, the absence will be recorded as ‘unauthorised’ and could result in legal action.
You can read the government advice here:
https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence
Regular school attendance is essential because:
If you need to request a leave of absence during term time, you must complete a leave of absence form and return it to the school office. Please note that email requests cannot be accepted.
