Cross in Hand CEP - Attendance

Procedure for Managing Attendance

In the event that your child is ill and unable to attend school, it is the parent's/guardian's obligation to contact the school office before the start of the school day. Children with diarrhoea or vomiting should be kept away from school for 48 hours after their symptoms have gone (further advice can be be found on the NHS website).

100% is recognised as an expected level of school attendance. If your child is out of school for 3 days each term, then their attendance is below 95% and they’re spending more days out of school than in it! Should your child need time off due to illness, this figure will quickly become even lower. Because five days of school equates to 25 hours of learning, catching up with extra work out of school is unrealistic. You can monitor your child’s attendance in real time using the Arbor app.

We therefore do not expect parents to take their children out of school for a holiday in term time and it should be assumed that a request for a holiday in term time will be unauthorised. In the case of an unauthorised holiday, the Behaviour and Attendance Service will be notified and a penalty notice will be issued resulting in a fine when 5 consecutive days or more are taken as holiday during term time.

From a young person’s perspective, missing schools means:

Missing out on fun projects and school activities
Struggling to catch up on work
Disconnecting with school friends

From a schools perspective:

Teachers need to remember who has missed out on learning experiences
Additional help is required to help to ‘catch up children’
Teachers need to help a child settle back emotionally as part of the class.

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