Attendance overview

When your child is in school, they are safe, happy and learning.  Our goal is that 100% of children come to school every day. We have lots of rewards for the children who attend school each day.
When your child is absent, you are expected to phone the school and let us know the reason why.
If you do not do this, staff cannot authorise the absence.
School starts at 8: 45 am
Persistent lateness will be referred to Miss. Clarke, and then to the Early Intervention Service. The Local Education Authority has recently initiated systems to track pupils who are absent or persistently late for school and have begun imposing fines in some cases. The fine for unnecessary absences is a fixed penalty of £80 per child per parent/carer.
Every half-day absence from school has to be classified by the school (not by parents), as either AUTHORISED or UNAUTHORISED.
This is why information about the cause of any absence is always required in writing.
Unauthorised absences are those which the school does not consider reasonable and for which no ‘leave’ has been given. This type of absence can lead to the Authority using sanctions and/or legal proceedings. This includes:
Parents/carers keeping children off school unnecessarily
Truancy before or during the school day
Absences which have never been properly explained
Children who arrive at school too late to get a mark
Shopping, looking after other children or birthdays
Day trips and holidays in term time.
 
The registers are ‘closed’ at 9.15 a.m. and after this time any child not in class is recorded as ‘ABSENT’. If a child is late more than five times over a two week period then it will referred to Early Intervention Service.
Another key issue being addressed by the Government is that of family holidays during term time. PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST LEAVE FOR YOUR CHILD DURING TERM TIME AS THIS WILL HAVE TO BE REFUSED. If you would require any further information, this can be obtained from school.
Thank you for your co-operation in this matter it is greatly appreciated.

 Attendance Rewards

Here at Haslam Park we celebrate our attendance at school.

We love a healthy competition! 

Our top attending class wins a trophy full of treats. 

 

Every child who has 100% in the week has their name put on our spinning wheels and 3 lucky children can pick a prize.

 

Every half term all children with 97% and above or those who have worked hard to improve their attendance.

We understand that for some children, 100% isn't obtainable due to complex medical conditions which require frequent medical attention. We treat each case on a case by case basis and our main goal is to support our families to maintain the highest possible attendance. If children are well enough, they need to be in school, we don't apologise for this!

Attendance Trophy

100% Attendance Certificates

100% Attendance Wheel Winners

BWFC Matchday Tickets

Attendance Party