Is my child too ill to attend school?
In most cases, we would recommend that if your child is feeling a little under the weather first thing in the morning that you encourage them to attend school, and we will monitor them throughout the day.
If their condition worsens, we will contact you to collect them. However, we understand that it can be a difficult decision to decide if your child is too ill to attend.
If your child is absent:
It is a parent(s)/carer(s) responsibility to contact school before 9am on the first day of absence.
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Attendance: How can parents/carers help?
We ask for the support of our parents/carers in supporting good attendance by:
- Promote positive and healthy attendance patterns with your child and set good bedtime and morning routines.
- Ensure your child attends every day, on time and equipped and ready to learn.
- Ensure school has at least 3 up-to-date addresses and contact numbers.
- Contact School on the first day of absence by 9:00am to provide a reason for absence.
- Contact the school each day of absence until your child returns.
- If contact is not made the absence will be recorded as unauthorised. The school is responsible for deciding if the absence is acceptable or not.
- Provide medical evidence for any absence exceeding 5 days (10 sessions) or more.
- Ensure medical appointments are made outside of school time. If this is not possible, your child needs to be in school prior to and after the appointment. We will need medical evidence upon their return.
- Holiday requests during term time will not be authorised due to the significant impact on progress. Parents/carers who take their children out of school for a holiday may be issued with a Penalty Notice.
- Contact school if you are experiencing difficulty getting your child to attend school.
- Work with the school and any other agencies of support to resolve any difficulties which may affect regular school attendance.
Where absence is unavoidable, the School is very happy to ensure that work is provided so that our students do not fall behind in their progress.
