Our Commitment to Promoting Good Attendance
Improving attendance is everyone’s business. The barriers to accessing education are wide and complex, both within and beyond the school gates, and are often specific to individual pupils and families.
The foundation of securing good attendance is that school is a calm, orderly, safe, and supportive environment where all pupils want to be and are keen and ready to learn. This is the environment we create for pupils that attend Tibberton CE Primary School.
Some pupils find it harder than others to attend school and therefore at all stages of improving attendance, schools and partners should work with pupils and parents to remove any barriers to attendance by building strong and trusting relationships and working together to put the right support in place.
Securing good attendance cannot therefore be seen in isolation, and effective practices for improvement will involve close interaction with schools’ efforts on curriculum, behaviour, bullying, special educational needs support, pastoral and mental health and wellbeing, and effective use of resources, including pupil premium.
At Tibberton we believe that this must be a concerted effort across all teaching and nonteaching staff in school, our Federated governing body, Telford & Wrekin Local Authority, and other partners within our cluster of local schools.
Our school target for attendance is over 96.5% and we work closely with parents, pupils and our multi-agency partners to promote good attendance. Unless for very specific reasons, requests for leave in term time are not granted and can be subject to fines and/or legal action by the local authority.
We promote good attendance in our setting by recognition within our weekly celebration worships and communication through our weekly newsletters. Please see the documents below for further information:
Promoting good attendance leaflet
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Summary_table_of_responsibilities_for_school_attendance
This is a great guide from the NHS giving advice to parents around common illnesses:
Is my child too ill for school?
And also more details on infection control from the Public Health Agency:
Guidance_on_infection_control_in schools
Ensuring punctuality
To prepare children to play a productive role in their future lives and careers, we also promote good punctuality within our setting and stress the importance of being on-time and ready for learning. Children are expected to arrive at school promptly by 8.45 to ensure that they are ready for their day’s learning. Parents are expected to play their role in facilitating this to happen. Our graduated approach to ensuring good punctuality is outlined below:
Graduated Approach to Lateness Flowchart