Promoting Excellent Attendance

Promoting excellent attendance to ensure that your child makes every minute of every lesson of everyday count

Attending school has a huge impact on your child’s academic success starting from reception all the way through to Year 11 and into the 6th form. Families play a vital role in making sure that their children get to school safely, regularly and on time. Here are some useful tips to help you.

Always make school a priority

• Never make doctor, dentist or optician appointment during school time unless this is absolutely necessary.
• If you do need to make an appointment in school time try to ensure that your child misses as little of school as possible.
• We know that travel companies don’t make it easy for families, but never book a holiday during term time (it won’t be authorised, your child will fall behind in their studies and you may be fined).
• Don’t allow your child to stay off school to make things easier for yourself – this is against the law.
• Don’t allow your child to miss school on Mondays and Fridays if you are going away for the weekend.
• Don’t allow your child to take a day off because of the weather.
• Don’t allow your child to take a day off for their birthday – this is completely unacceptable.

Help your child to stay on track

• Find out if your child is coping with their work and if they are up to date – missing school will make them fall behind.
• Check your child’s attendance with school, you might not realise how much school they have missed.
• Encourage your child to stay back after school to attend intervention, booster sessions and extra lessons whenever they are offered.
• If your child forgets their home learning, PE kit, stationery etc. or is not in correct uniform, it will cause problems for them at school – please help your child to organise themselves.

Missing school will make your child fall behind in lessons and will impact on their academic progress and achievement.

Excellent Attendance is your key to success

National Statistics state that:

• 73% of pupils with attendance of 95% or higher achieve at least 5 GCSEs grade 4 or above
• Only 35% of pupils with attendance of between 80-90% manage to achieve 5 GCSEs grade 4 or above
• Research shows that pupils with 5 GCSEs grade 4 or above earn on average £350,000 more in their lifetime than those without the grades
• Excellent attendance at school = 96% and above

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