Attendance is critical!
Children who attend school consistently are likely to stay at school longer and live more successful lives. Of particular interest is the link between attendance in the first two years at school and longevity at school. What this suggests is that a pattern of attendance develops very early in school life and does not easily change. Children who have lower attendance in their first two years at school are more likely to leave school earlier.
The Board of Trustees is required to take all reasonable steps to ensure that students do attend school whenever it is open. The Education Act 1989 requires all children enrolled at a school to attend school whenever that school is open unless they have a justified reason not to attend. Every parent of a child who is not at school without a good reason, commits an offence and can be convicted and fined. Just giving a reason does not justify an absence.
Attendance Target
As a result of the important link between attendance and success at school, we have
set a school target attendance level of 96%. It is easy to get below 96%
attendance with a couple of bouts of sickness during the winter. However, when
you consider that an attendance figure of 90% means that by the time a student
goes to High School, they will have missed almost a year of schooling, we
should be aiming for 96%.
Attendance
levels for 2012
- The overall average attendance rate for 2012 is 95.1% - just below the target of 96%.
- 57% of students have achieved the targeted threshold of 96% or above.
- 12.7% of students have attendance rates of 90% or below.
- 3.6% of students have attendance rates of below 80%.
- 23% of students have taken a holiday during term time
- 2% of students had an obvious pattern of lateness to school.
- The attendance of 10% students is of concern and needs to be closely monitored.
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