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2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
Attendance rate | 96% | 96% | 90% |
Authorised absences | 2.2% | 2.3% | 8.4% |
Unauthorised absences | 1.8% | 1.8% | 1.8% |
It is a parent's legal responsibility to ensure their children receive appropriate education. Failing to send your child to school regularly without good reason is a criminal offence.
Absence disrupts the education of the individual pupil and the whole class. Are you aware that children who do not attend regularly:
Absense can only be authorised by the Head Teacher, within the boundaries set by the Education Act 1996. Please remember that parental illness, going shopping, visiting family, truancy, not wanting to go to school, alleged bullying (speak to school immediately to resolve the issue) are not acceptable reasons to be absent. All of these will be recorded as unauthorised absence. Leave in term time will only be authorised in exceptional circumstances.
Punctuality:- If pupils arrive after registers close they will be recorded as absent and this will be unauthorised (U).
Legal actions that may be taken include:
How does your child compare?
Attendance over one year |
Means this many days off |
Which is approximately |
Which means this many lessons missed |
90% | 19 days | 4 weeks | 100 lessons |
80% | 38 days | 8 weeks | 200 lessons |
70% | 57 days | 11.5 weeks | 290 lessons |
Frequent absence can add up to a considerable amount of lost learning and can seriously disadvantage your child in adult life. If your child's level of absence is of serious concern you will receive another letter advising you about improving attendance. After this, any further unauthorised absence may result in the Local Authority taking legal action.
We will improve attendance by making it clear within the school and local community that unauthorised absence is not acceptable. You will be informed of the number of penalty notices issued, prosecutions and also the percentage of improvement in attendance.
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