As a parent or carer, you have a legal requirement to ensure your child attends school on a regular basis. Therefore, you hold the responsibility to promote good attendance and punctuality.
We do understand there are times when children will need to be absent from school for a number of reasons. As a result, we will only consider authorising absences in the following instances:
For sickness or ill health
For medical or dental appointments which fall during school hours (we would however encourage you to make appointments outside of school hours)
For religious or cultural observances
For a family emergency
We ask all parents and carers to follow our leave of absence procedure in order to grant authorised absence in the above cases.
You are required to contact the school as soon as possible on the first day of absence. Any parent or carer who has not reported their child as absent will be contacted by the school by phone call, text message or email. Failure to follow this procedure may result in the child receiving an unauthorised absence.
Research suggests that children who are absent from school may never catch up on the learning they have missed, which may ultimately affect exam and test results. When children are absent from school, they miss not only the teaching provided on the days when they are away, but are also less prepared for the lessons that follow which build on prior knowledge and teaching. As a parent/carer, you can demonstrate your commitment to your child’s education by not allowing your child to miss school for anything other than an exceptional and unavoidable reason.
Please support your child's education by ensuring they attend school on time each day.
