If your child has a medical appointment or is considered too ill to attend school due to illness, it is your responsibility to inform the school. Please following the below steps:

• If you are unsure whether to keep your child off school, please talk to the School Office for advice. 

Unplanned absence

The pupil’s parent/carer must notify the school of the reason for the absence on the first day of an unplanned absence by 8:30am or as soon as practically possible by calling the school office. We will mark absence due to illness as authorised unless the school has a genuine concern about the authenticity of the illness. If the authenticity of the illness is in doubt, the school may ask the pupil’s parent/carer to provide medical evidence, such as a doctor’s note, prescription, appointment card or other appropriate form of evidence. We will not ask for medical evidence unnecessarily. If the school is not satisfied about the authenticity of the illness, the absence will be recorded as unauthorised and parents/carers will be notified of this in advance.

Planned absence

Attending a medical or dental appointment will be counted as authorised as long as the pupil’s parent/carer notifies the school in advance of the appointment. However, we encourage parents/carers to make medical and dental appointments out of school hours where possible. Where this is not possible, the pupil should be out of school for the minimum amount of time necessary, and parents must sign their children out of school and when they return, sign them back in. The pupil’s parent/carer must also apply for other types of term-time absence as far in advance as possible of the requested absence.

Improving and Maintaining Punctuality

As with attendance, punctuality is monitored on a daily basis. We urge parents to co-operate with us and ensure your child arrives to school on time every day. The school has facilities for a breakfast club, which starts at 8:00am for only £1.00 however, if parents are struggling financially, please speak to a member of Senior Leadership Team.

In case of poor time keeping these procedures would be followed:

• Any child who has not arrived at school when the registers are collected are recorded in the Absences book which in kept in the office. Phone calls are made to see whether the child is attending school for not.
• Children who arrive late for school will be marked on SIMS as late (L) and their reason, along with the time they arrive. This is also recorded in the absences named and highlighted in green.
• If a child is persistently late, the PWC will discuss this with parents and offer ways in which we could support them in making sure their child arrives on time.