Attendance

Absence from School

We operate a first day contact system whereby parents and carers are required to telephone the school by 9.20am on the first morning of any unplanned absence. This ensures that the whereabouts of each child is known and that we can be certain they are safe.
The current healthcare guidelines state that where a child has vomited or has had diarrhoea, the child is kept away from school for 48 hours following the last attack. Illnesses of this kind tend to spread very easily and quickly and this procedure helps to minimise the number of children infected.
On your child’s return to school, please send in a letter confirming the reason for the absence.
Requests for leave of absence for holidays during term time will not be authorised. The requirements to meet the Early Years Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum have made it even more important that the loss of school days is minimised. The programmes of work and assessment are continuous and therefore just a few days’ absence may cause the loss of vital learning for children. Should it be absolutely essential to request a leave of absence during term time for an event outside parents’ control, for example a wedding or family bereavement, a request form is available from the school office or on the school website. The Headteacher checks all class registers regularly and any long periods of absence or regular occasional days’ absence are referred to the Local Authority Education Welfare Service. A child with less than 90% attendance is classified by the Department for Education as “persistently absent” and schools are charged with working with parents to remedy this.

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