Attendance Matters!

Poor attendance links directly to low attainment, poor self esteem and other education, social and emotional issues.

If your child has attendance below 95% across their time at Elmwood Infant School this means that he/she will have lost over half a term of learning.

If attendance is below 90%, this relates to at least a term of learning.

Attendance Matters!

What does 95% or below look like?

• 90% attendance would be like having one day off every 2 weeks.

• 95% attendance equates to your child having 1 day off every 4 weeks.

• If your child has a 10 day absence for any reason across the year they will immediately fall below 90%.

In summary, if he/she misses a few days of school in the first half term, their attendance will have dropped to below 90%.

Lateness after our register closes at 9.30am is considered as a morning of absence by the Department for Education.

Our Attendance Officer is Bobbie Bittles. She will work with families where a child’s attendance falls under 95%.

Our Education Welfare Officer is Pamela Eldock. She works at our school every alternative Thursday and will work with all families where the attendance of your child drops below 90%

Attendance is linked to Safeguarding

If your child is not in school and we don’t know why or the reason is vague, how do we know they are

safe?

Poor attendance might fall into the category of neglect as the child’s ‘Right to an Education’ (Article

28) is being denied.