Week beginning 2.10.23

Well done to ... 

2EL and 2ZN for 100% attendance this week.

1FS, 4ED, 6DS and 6HT for 98%+ attendance.

5BB and 5KR for 96%+ attendance.

Register Ready classes were: 1FS, 3JH, 5BB, 5KR, 6DS and 6HT.

What a great start to the year!

Attendance

Parents and guardians are legally required to ensure their children are in school every day. Our attendance target as a school is 96%.

We as a school aim to be fair and consistent in our attendance policy. We will keep parents informed if their child’s level of attendance falls and will write to you if your child’s attendance percentage drops to a level that causes concern. Our Pastoral Lead, Mrs Baker, is always available to meet with parents who are having any difficulties with their child attending school for whatever reason. An Education Welfare Officer is also linked to the school to discuss any absence concerns.

Absences will be unauthorised if we don’t hear from you with a valid reason for your child not being in school. Birthdays, shopping for uniform, having no one to bring them are not valid reasons. Fixed penalty notices will be issued by Suffolk County Council for unauthorised absences, usually 6 sessions but we withhold the right to inform them at a lower level if we have reason to.

The register is taken promptly at 8.50am and 12.45. Late marks are monitored and passed to the Education Welfare Officer when they reach an unacceptable level (6 lates). If your child is late by more than 15 minutes (arriving after 9.05 am or 1pm) the session will be classed as an unauthorised absence and will count towards a Penalty Notice.

Our expectation of you as parents is that you keep us informed of your child’s whereabouts at all times if they are not in school. This means a phone call each day before 9.05am to inform us of any illness. If they are ill for more than two days,  we would expect a visit to the GP. Please keep your appointment card to show the school as evidence of illness if it is required.

We expect that routine medical appointments such as dentists, opticians, doctors etc are made outside of school hours where possible. If you have an unavoidable appointment in school time we will authorise one session of absence for that appointment (one registration session, either am or pm).

Holidays cannot be authorised apart from very exceptional circumstances. Funerals are authorised for close family members, as are music/dance exams or similar. We would expect notice of these events for the school diary.

If you are having difficulties regarding attendance, please talk to us. We want to work together to ensure your child is in school at all times.

Attendance Policy.

For further clarity, our Attendance Policy is available to view and can be found in the policies section on the school website.