Attendance
Attend Today, Achieve Tomorrow
We expect all children and parents to work hard to gain 100% attendance.
Our school aims each year to have an overall attendance of 96% or higher.
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Pupil Welfare Officer – Mrs A Pellowe
School Attendance Officer - Miss N Ardern
School works closely with Pupil Welfare and meet weekly to discuss any children who have raised attendance concerns and to offer support for parents to improve their child’s attendance. Lateness and attendance are monitored daily by the school attendance officer who will inform parents when their child’s attendance has become of concern and support will be offered.
The school attendance policy is available to view here.
Understand your child’s attendance and how lateness affects the attendance and learning of your child.
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The school gates close at 8:40am and registers are taken at 8:45am.
If your child arrives after 8:45am, your child will be given a late mark on the register.
If your child arrives after 9:15am, your child will be given a U mark on the register.
The U mark means that your child has been given an unauthorised absence for the morning session.
We strongly urge that holidays are taken outside of term time during allocated school holidays.
See our latest school holiday pattern here.
School will fine parents for the unauthorised absence of their child from school, where the child is of compulsory school age.
Important Update – Changes to Education-related Penalty Notices
Information for Parents
You may be aware that the Department for Education has recently announced national changes to penalty notices issued for unauthorised absence in term time. These changes will come into effect on 19 August 2024.
The changes to be aware of are:
- Penalty notices issued for offences that take place after 19 August 2024 will be charged at a new rate of £160 per parent per child. This can be paid at £80 if paid within 21 days.
- Any second penalty notice issued to the same parent for the same child within a rolling 3-year period will be issued at the rate of £160 to be paid within 28 days with no option for a discounted rate.
- The threshold at which a penalty notice must be considered is set at 10 sessions (equivalent to 5 days) of unauthorised absence within a rolling 10-school week period. This may include absences as a result of arriving late after the register closes. The 10 school weeks may span different terms or school years.
- A maximum of 2 penalty notices may be issued to a parent for the same child within a rolling 3-year period, so at the 3rd (or subsequent) offence(s) another course of action will need to be considered (such as prosecution).
- Only penalty notices issued for absences taking place after 19 August 2024 will count towards the above thresholds.
It can be tricky deciding whether or not to keep your child off school or nursery when they're unwell.
There are government guidelines for schools and nurseries about managing specific infectious diseases at GOV.UK. These say when children should be kept off school and when they shouldn't.
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/
Attendance Rewards
We celebrate attendance each week during our Friday celebration assembly and the class with the best attendance recieve extra play time.
In each classroom the certificates earnt by the class are displayed and attendance achievements are shared on the half termly newsletter.
At the end of the year, the children who have 100% attendance for the year are invited to a 100% attendance party which is organised by Blackpool Council. Each child receives a medal and a certificate at the party.
At the end of each term, the children who have 100% attendance recieve a special 100% attendance badge. There are 6 badges to collect across the acadmic year and we hope to see as many badges collected as possible!
