Polite reminder about attendance
We have seen an increasing number of children arriving late this academic year. Unfortunately, this is resulting in lost learning time. If your child arrives into their classroom at 9am each day, they are missing 10 minutes of learning time a day, this equates to 50 minutes of lost learning over the week.
Please help your child by ensuring they arrive to school ready for lessons to begin at 8.50pm.
The school gates open at 8.40am. All pupils are able to enter the school grounds at this time.
At 8.50am, our school bell rings to signal the start of the school day. All children are expected to be in their classroom when the bell rings and ready to start learning. This is when the school day officially begins. Children not in the classroom at 8.50am will be marked as late (L) in our registers. Therefore, children will need to enter the school gates before 8.50 to allow sufficient time to reach their classroom before the register is taken.
If your child arrives between 8.50 and 9.00 am, they will be marked as late on the register.
After 9.00am, the school gates are closed. Children arriving after this time will need to go through the Main Office and will be marked as U (unauthorised absence) in the school register.
Holiday absence in term time
Holiday in term time, unless there are exceptional circumstances agreed to by the headteacher, will not be authorised. If you feel that there are exceptional circumstances that support a request for leave of absence in term time, a request must be made in writing to the Headteacher at least two weeks in advance of the absence. Each case will be considered on an individual basis and the decision communicated to parents/carers. Where an unauthorised holiday is taken for 10 sessions (5 days) or more, the school will pass this information onto the Local Authority, who may issue a fine to parents/carers.
Please find our attendance policy on our website here for further information.
