We really appreciate how our parents and carers support their children to attend school each day, on time, prepared for lessons and ready to learn. Research is clear that attending school regularly and maintaining good attendance in school is vitally important to ensure that your child makes good progress, both academically and socially.
Children only get one chance at school. Setting good attendance patterns from an early age is crucial to help your child keep up with their school work, make and maintain friendships, have fun and to become successful, independent adults in the future.
The Department for Education has recently updated their guidance for how schools should promote good attendance and our responsibility to collaborate with the Local Authority support this. The Government have clarified roles and responsibilities which means that school will continue to work with you, and to support your child to ensure that excellent levels of attendance are maintained.
Good attendance is 96% or above. Any children with attendance of 90% or below are classed as persistently absent. Children with attendance below 90% miss over 100 lessons each year.
Please be aware that referrals will be made to the Education Enforcement team for the issue of penalty notices where pupils have 10 or more unauthorised absences.
Let’s Celebrate Attendance
Each term we’re aiming to achieve a Gold, Silver or Bronze Attendance Certificate!
- Gold Attendance Certificate – 100%
- Silver Attendance Certificate – 99% (half a day absent)
- Bronze Attendance Certificate – 98% (one day absent)
- Platinum Certificate – 100% from September to Easter
- An Excellence in Attendance Certificate – 100% all year
- A trophy for 100% for the entire year
- A reward chosen by the class at the beginning of each half term for 100% attendance for the week.