Attendance At School
Regular and punctual attendance at school is both a legal requirement and vital for young people to receive a good standard of education.
There are few stronger links to school success than high attendance. Our GCSE results show this every year that those students with attendance above 96% making far better academic progress than their peers with lower attendance.
There are 190 school days in an academic year, leaving 175 days free to spend on family holidays, visits and other non-urgent appointments.
Punctuality is also crucial to a child’s education as being 15 minutes late each day is the same as missing two weeks of school over the course of the school year.
Every single school day counts!
Notifying the school of your child’s absence
Parents must notify school on the first day the child is unable to attend school, by 8.30am or as soon as practically possible by notifying attendance by telephone call or email. Parents must give detailed reasons for absence, for example, ‘child has a throat infection/has been sick etc’ rather than just ‘unwell/poorly’.
Attendance issues must be reported to the Attendance Officer via
wbs-attendance@wbs.318education.co.uk or 01952 728900 option 1.
This link to the NHS outlines and advises parents of how to make decisions about when to and when not to send their child into school.
