Attendance

Helping Your Child Attend School Every Day

We urge all parents to ensure that students attend regularly and on time. Each day a student is absent, equates to 6 lessons of instructions and learning missed and that is difficult to catch up on. Students have 175 days of non-school days and we should ensure all our students attend 190 days of learning. Holiday requests during term time will not be authorised.

 

 

Importance of Attendance

Good attendance is extremely important and is associated with improved mental health and wellbeing, better student outcomes, and higher attainment.

Every Day Counts

Recent research shows that even missing one day has negative impact on a student’s achievements. Evidence shows that the students with the highest attendance throughout their time in school achieve the best GCSE and A Level results. Secondary school pupils who didn’t pass English and maths missed 10 more days over KS4 than those who did.

 

Our Multi-Tiered System of Support

To guarantee a comprehensive approach to attendance, we implement a Multi-Tiered System of Support. A Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) for school attendance involves three tiers of intervention, with roles for teachers, the school, children, parents, and external agencies – including the Local Authority.

For more details, please read our attendance policy.

For advice and support around school anxiety and school absence, please visit our wellbeing page.

If your child will be absent, please contact the school office on 0121 7737496 by 9 am.

Please click to view our whole school attendance letter.

Request for leave

You can complete the leave request form via the parent portal. Please note, that these will only be authorised in exceptional circumstances.

Punctuality

“By time. Indeed, mankind is in loss. Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and  advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience” (Quran 103: 1-3).

If in a school year your child is late every day…

Your child would have lost …

Or would have missed

5 minutes

3 days from school

19 lessons

10 minutes

6 days from school

38 lessons

15 minutes

9.5 days from school

57 lessons

20 minutes

13 days from school

76 lessons

30 minutes

19 days from school

114 lessons

 

Consequences of being late

  • Gets the day off to a bad start.
  • Increases stress and upset for the child.
  • Can lead to the child feeling embarrassed and singled out.
  • Affects the child’s overall confidence.
  • Disrupts the learning of other class members.
  • Confusion for your child arriving in the middle of an activity.

How to help your child

  1. School gates open at 8 am. Drop your child off early.
  2. Make sure school bags are packed the night before.
  3. Go to bed early and switch off screens at least 1 hour before bedtime.
  4. Make sure that your child gets up with plenty of time to eat breakfast and get ready.