Good attendance means coming to school regularly, on time and arriving prepared to learn.

Good attendance is important because:

• Improving attendance is in everyone’s interests and it’s everyone’s business.
• Regular attendance is an indicator of safe, healthy, and successful children.
• The pupils with the highest attainment at the end of key stage 2 and key stage 4 have higher rates of attendance over the key stage compared to those with the lowest attainment (DfE, 2024).
• Regular attenders make better progress, both socially and academically and find school routines, schoolwork, and friendships easier to cope with. Regular attenders find learning more satisfying.
• Regular attendance encourages responsible learning habits and prepares children for higher education and for their working life.                                                          
• For the most vulnerable pupils, regular attendance is also an important protective factor and the best opportunity for needs to be identified and support provided. Research has shown associations between regular absence from school and a number of extra familial harms, including crime.

As a parent you can help us by:

• Ensuring your child attends school on each day the school is open for the pupils unless there is an ‘authorisable’   reason to be absent. Only the school can authorise an absence.
• Following the school procedures for reporting absences.
• Arranging (where possible) all non-emergency medical and dental appointments out of school hours or during school holidays.
• Do not plan any holidays during term time.
• Keeping the school updated by telephone, email, or letter of any changes of circumstances.
• Making sure we always have your current contact numbers; this includes all telephone numbers, email addresses and emergency contact details.

Our attendance target for the school is 96%.

Please see our weekly newsletters for an update on our current attendance.