Senior Attendance Champion - Nicola Darby

Attendance Officer - Marcia Randle

Attendance Lead safeguarding - Clair Bedford

Illness

When your child is unwell you should inform the School Office before 8:45am on 01278 422693 and selecting

option 1.   Leave your child's name and reason for absence.

Sickness and Diarrhea 

Our policy is 48 Hours absence after the last occurrence of sickness or diarrhea.  It is in important that you keep your child away from School for this period to stop passing on infections.  

Attendance

As part of our commitment to improving the attainment of our pupils we monitor attendance on a regular basis and identify any pupil whose attendance causes concern. Children are required to maintain an attendance of 97% and above, for those children who fall below this level the school will start to follow the school monitoring attendance procedure. The school attendance daily checklist and monitoring procedure is detailed below, alongside the current school attendance policy.

Term Time Leave

The law does not grant parents the automatic right to take their child out of school during term time.

The DFE does not consider a need or desire for a holiday or other absence for the purpose of leisure and recreation to be an exceptional circumstance.   Therefore, there is no longer the option within the schools management system to authorise any holiday requests.   If you decide to take your child out of school for a leave of absence, you are required to inform the school of the dates of the planned absence.  Failure to do so may result in your child being reported as missing in education and could incur a fixed penalty notice. 

Target Days - Attendance 

Reward stickers will be given to children who arrive to school on time (by 8:45am) ready to learn. 

Friday 29th November 2024

Wednesday 5th February 2025 

Monday 17th March 2025

Friday 16th May 2025

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Daily Attendance and Monitoring Procedures 

Morning

• The School day starts at 8:45am.  Pupils who arrive after this time will be marked as late.  Pupils who arrive after 9:10am will have a unathorised late mark which will affect their attendance.
• 9:55am morning registers close and paper registers returned to the office for input on registers.
• Daily attendance report printed to identify any unexplained/missing marks for the day.
• Registers updated by Attendance Officer with marks from late arrival and absent sheet in reception
• Visit to classrooms to see if children with unexplained/missing absence have arrived
• Phone call made to parents of absent children to ascertain reason for absence
• Marks updated on (SIM’s)

Afternoon

• 1:10pm registers close
• Paper registers are added to SIM’s