Attendance & Holidays in Term Time

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Attendance

Excellent attendance and punctuality is crucial to success. We encourage every child to aim for 100% attendance, maximising their learning opportunities, and helping them to achieve their full potential. The school opens at 8:45am for all children. Gates close at 8:50am and learning begins.

Evidence shows that pupils who maintain excellent attendance achieve more, and make better progress – both academically and socially. We work closely with parents to support them in helping their child to understand the importance of good attendance – laying the foundations for future success at secondary school and beyond to the work place.

Pupil attendance is closely monitored, and unexplained absence will be followed up. This includes where pupils fall below our minimum attendance expectation rate of 95%. Failure to attend school regularly will result in a meeting and actions agreed between home and school.

Parents are asked to follow the procedures below in case of unavoidable absence, including for medical reasons. We also ask parents to contact us if there are any issues that may impact on their child’s ability to attend, so that we can provide help and support with this, including making adjustments so that pupils are able to attend.

Term Dates

Holidays during term-time

Please note that holidays during term-time will only be authorised in highly exceptional circumstances, and unauthorised holidays will be recorded as unauthorised absence. We ask that parents check our term dates page carefully before booking any holidays. If you would like to read more about our approach to attendance, please see our attendance policy.

Reporting Absence

Pupils who are unwell should not be sent to school. Parents are asked to inform school by 9.00 a.m. if their child is not attending. In cases of sickness/diarrhoea, pupils should remain at home for 48 hours after the last bout of illness.