Attendance Rewards and Sanctions

Rewarding good attendance and punctuality

From November, any student who has 100% attendance fortnightly will receive a R4 award on Class Charts (this equates to +10 positive points).

Individual year groups have continuous weekly rewards for attendance.

Attendance is taken into account in end of term and end of year rewards trips.

Sanctioning poor attendance/punctuality
We want to work together in a positive way to ensure your child is with us every school, on time. We will always use bespoke, supportive strategies to work with you to improve attendance and punctuality. However, like all schools we will apply sanctions as necessary if absences and lates are unauthorised. Attendance and punctuality is a serious issue and it would be remiss of us not to apply serious consequences when necessary.

Lates:
Your child should be in school no later than 8.30am for Form. Form is very important as it is an opportunity for Literacy intervention, Personal Development sessions as well as daily Sacred Time and preparation for the day.

• If your child is late to school before 8.45am, their Form Teacher will keep them on a breaktime detention that day.
• If your child is late after 8.45am they must sign in at the ‘late desk’ at Reception to have a supportive conversation, you will receive a message and Pastoral staff will issue a same-day lunch time detention. We appreciate your support in helping to ensure that your child is in school on time.

Fixed penalty notices:

A reminder that in conjunction with St Helens Education Welfare Service, a Fixed penalty notice will be issued for:

• 20 unauthorised absences
• 10 late marks in a 10-week period

Further information about unauthorised absences can be found in our school attendance policy here.

Authorised (approved reasons) absences from school are shown below:

• Genuine illness.
• Attending a funeral.
• Unavoidable Hospital, Doctor, Dentist Appointments.
• Religious observance.

The School, LEA and Government are concerned about unauthorised or unacceptable absences. These include:

• Taking holidays during term time.
• Truancy.
• Feeling ill but could have attended school.
• Staying home to look after a relative.
• Going shopping.
• Any other Absences deemed unnecessary by the School Attendance Officer.

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