Our school aims to meet its obligations with regards to school attendance by:
- Promoting good attendance and reducing absence, including persistent absence
- Ensuring every pupil has access to full-time education to which they are entitled
- Acting early to address patterns of absence
We will also support parents to perform their legal duty to ensure their children of compulsory school age
attend regularly, and will promote and support punctuality in attending lessons.
Following the Supreme Court ruling in IOW - v- Platt in April 2017, the definition of ‘regular attendance’ has
been clarified as meaning ‘in accordance with the rules prescribed by the school ’. This means every
session that the school is open and the child is expected to attend.
Irregular school attendance may have a serious impact on a child’s academic progress if it is allowed to
continue.