Attendance - How can we all help?

At our school, we do lots of things to help make sure everyone comes to school as much as they can:

• We tell the government every day how many children are in school, because that’s the rule for all schools.

• We work closely with children and their families to help with any problems, with help from our Inclusion Team.

• We share news about attendance in our school newsletters so parents/carers know what’s going on.

• We talk about why coming to school every day is a good thing.

• We keep a list of all the children who go to our school.

• We also keep track of who is in school each day.

• If someone is not here when we take the register, we check in to find out why.

• We show parents/carers how often their child has been in school each term.

• We let parents/carers know how their child’s attendance is going and how it affects their learning.

• If a child’s attendance drops too low, we talk to their parents/carers to see how we can help

Here’s what we ask parents and carers to do:

• Make sure their child comes to school every day unless there’s a really good reason, like being very unwell.

• Make sure your child arrives at school on time every day.

• Let the school know as soon as they can if their child can’t come in, this must be before 8.50am for Silver St pupils and 9.00am for Ditton St pupils.

• Only ask for time off school in exceptional circumstances, and this must be requested in advance in line with the school policy.

• Try to book doctor or dentist appointments outside of school time if they can.