Attendance

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Whole School Attendance Record for the Year

Attendance & Punctuality

You will appreciate that, by law, children must attend school regularly. Periods of absence are harmful to a child’s education and need to be kept to a minimum. Each school day counts and missing just a few makes it harder for your child to achieve their full potential.

Please click the icon to the right for details of the attendance process that we have at Stanville Primary School. This details what happens when levels fall below 92% for your child.

School Attendance Letter

Regular school attendance has always been essential for all children so as to ensure their educational entitlement, safety and wellbeing. For this reason all schools are required to set high standards for all pupils in relation to attendance. To illustrate this a joint letter has been produced, in partnership between Birmingham City Council and Stanville Primary School, which outlines this in detail. Please ensure you are aware of these expectations and in particular holidays in term time. If you have any concerns or queries regarding attendance please contact the school immediately so that we can support you and your child before problems arise.

Punctuality is also a major factor in how a child progresses. Even just a few minutes late at the start of each day can affect how much your child achieves. Where a child is late (not in the classroom by 8.55am) then they are required to attend a Guided Reading or Phonics session booster at lunchtime for approximately 10-15 minutes. This is to ensure that all children receive their educational entitlement. The following table highlights the impact a few minutes each day has on your child’s learning:

When children are absent from school we need either a letter or telephone call as soon as possible. We are required by law to keep an accurate record of attendance. All poor attendance (below 96%) will be rigorously challenged and families supported to ensure that their children attend school every day.

It is now a legal requirement for schools to publish their figures for both authorised and unauthorised absence.

An authorised absence (usually in the case of illness) is one for which we have notification from parents either verbally, in writing or by telephone. Holidays during term time will not be approved by the school and are classed as unauthorised absences in accordance with government regulations.

Truancy and absences without explanation are also unauthorised absences and will be investigated by the Family Support and Home Liaison Officer. In cases where a pupil’s attendance is below 90% or there have been 5+ unauthorised absences an investigation will occur which may also result in legal proceedings.

Reporting a Pupil Absence & Procedures

Due to updated guidance in relation to children missing from education from the local authority, it is crucial that we are told of your child’s absence by 9.15am in order to record information accurately. In light of this we would like to remind you that failure to call or respond to the text message will initiate a reason for absence letter which will be posted to your home address on the first day of absence. This letter will prompt you to call or return the slip with a reason.

In line with the local authority guidance if we fail to make contact with you within 3 days and have made reasonable enquiries via contacting family, neighbours and/or conducting a home visit we have a duty to notify the Local Authority that your child is potentially missing from education. It is therefore very important that we are notified of any absence on a daily basis. Thank you for your co-operation and please click the icon above for details of the school procedures for a child absence.

Pupil Exit Information

All schools are required to establish reasons for a child leaving a setting. This also includes new location for families and any new receiving school. At Stanville Primary School we recognise this as a key safeguarding requirement so as to avoid the risk of a Child Missing in Education (CME). For this reason we collect information when your child leaves Stanville Primary School whether this is at the end of their education time at our setting (Nursery or Year 6) or at any other time.

To ensure we have the relevant information prior to your child's departure from Stanville Primary School simply click the icon opposite. The form should only take a few minutes to complete. Please complete all sections in full to avoid any further contact seeking additional details.

Please note until we are able to confirm the receiving school for your child we are required, as a part of our Duty of Care, to pass all information relating to a child/family to the relevant services (i.e. Social Services, Police or similar). All information received will be treated with the utmost level of confidentiality and only those personnel required to have access, will be able to. Thank you for your assistance.

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