Attendance

Why do children need to come to school?

For a child to achieve their full educational potential a high level of school attendance is essential. We are committed to providing an education of the highest quality for all our pupils and endeavour to provide an environment where all pupils feel valued and welcome. Parents and pupils play a part in making our school …

Promoting Good Attendance

The foundation for good attendance is a strong partnership between the school, parent/s and the child. The Home School Agreement will contain details of how we will work with parents and our expectations of what parents will need to do to ensure their child achieves good attendance. To help us all to focus on this …

Lateness and Punctuality

It is important to be on time at the start of the morning and afternoon sessions and also to lessons. The start of school is used to give out instructions or organise work. If your child is late, they can miss time with their class teacher getting vital information, cause disruption to the lesson for …

Penalty Notices

Hertfordshire County Council’s Code of Conduct for Penalty Notices states that where a child has had 15 unauthorised sessions absences in the current and/or previous terms (a session is a half day), the school may request a penalty notice be issued. The absences may have occurred in a single block, a series of odd days/lates …

Request for Leave of Absence

The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations state that Headteachers may not grant any leave of absence during term time unless there are exceptional circumstances. It is important to note that Headteachers can determine the length of the authorised absence, as well as whether absence is authorised at all. The fundamental principles for defining exceptional are …