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In our special mention assembly the children received their awards for good attendance, the best class this week was Mrs Steadman’s with 99%, apart from the weekly trophy they have the privilege of looking after our Ronny for the week! You can see him in the picture alongside the children who also received a special pencil! Well done to Class MB who are our early years winners and to those children who managed to attend all week without a day off! Remember the more you attend school the more you learn, so good attendance does matter!

Good attendance plays an important role in your child’s education and every day counts! Research by the DfE suggests that absence from school has a detrimental effect on a child’s attainment and could affect their chances later on in life as they enter the world of work. Below are some interesting facts:

• Of pupils who miss more than 50% of school only three per cent manage to achieve five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C including maths and English.

• 73% of pupils who have over 95% attendance achieve five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C.

The Law states that:

• All children between 5 and 17 should receive a full-time education and it is parents/ carers duty to ensure that this happens.

• If a child arrives late to school whilst the register is still open they are marked as late. If a pupil arrives after the register closes, without satisfactory reason, this may be classed as unauthorised absence and may lead to a fixed penalty notice for not ensuring your child has regular/ punctual school attendance.

• There are 190 statutory school days in one year that a child needs to attend. That leaves 175 days (including weekends and holidays) for appointments and holidays to be taken. Taking holidays in term time may result in fixed penalty notices being issued.

Being frequently late for school adds up to lost learning:

·       5 minutes late every day adds up to over 3 days lost each year

·       15 minutes late every day is the same as being absent for 2 weeks a year

·       30 minutes late every day is the same as being absent for 19 days a year

“IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE LATE THAN NOT TO ARRIVE AT ALL”

We understand that at specific times a child may struggle to attend school. If this is the case Mrs Winstanley is on hand to provide help and support to overcome any barriers. It is vital that we work together to ensure your child reaches their maximum potential and that you communicate any absences with school. Unexplained absences will not be authorised and on advice from the Education Welfare Services more fixed penalty notices for unauthorised absences are being issued, either for family holidays or sporadic days off.

CURRENT SCHOOL STATUS

Whole School attendance so far 95.3% the target is 96%

130 Children have the schools target attendance of 96% or more

24 Children have 100% attendance

7 Children are classed as persistently absent (with 85% or below)

PUNCTUALITY

There is a growing concerning in schools over the lateness of children coming into school and their missed learning. A survey was carried out by Mrs Winstanley for 1 week to monitor children’s lateness and the amount of learning time that was being lost. It was found that:

• 42 children were late in total for the week
• 20 of these children were late on more than one occasion
• In total 9 hours of learning time was lost

The snap shot shows concerning results, for both staff and parents alike. “IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE LATE THAN NOT TO ARRIVE AT ALL” but let’s work together to reduce this alarmingly high amount of lost learning time.

Attendance Information for parents

Our weekly attendance is 96.4% which reflects a strong performance to start this term and a rise on last week’s attendance. With five classes topping 96% and classes SH and CH reaching an outstanding 99.5% we are expecting our attendance for the year to continue to improve. This week’s attendance prizes go to Billy, Paige, Charlotte, Amelia, Harry, Josh and Tanesha, well done to all of you. Mrs Winstanley has been busy changing our attendance display and we now have a set of football goals and a league table to coincide with the World Cup finals in Brazil, come on Brierley children and come on England!