Illness
When your child is unwell you should inform the School Office before 8:45am on 01278 422693 and selecting
option 1. Leave your child's name and reason for absence.
Sickness and Diarrhea
Our policy is 48 Hours absence after the last occurrence of sickness or diarrhea. It is in important that you keep your child away from School for this period to stop passing on infections.
Attendance
As part of our commitment to improving the attainment of our pupils we monitor attendance on a regular basis and identify any pupil whose attendance causes concern. Children are required to maintain an attendance of 97% and above, for those children who fall below this level the school will start to follow the school monitoring attendance procedure. The school attendance daily checklist and monitoring procedure is detailed below, alongside the current school attendance policy.
Term Time Leave
Term time leave must be requested in writing to the school at least 20 school days in advance of the leave via a term time leave request form. Only requests with exceptional circumstances will be considered and children with poor attendance will no have requests approved. Those parents who take their children out of school without prior consent put themselves at risk of receiving a penalty notice.
Daily Attendance and Monitoring Procedures
Morning
Afternoon
Fortnightly
School Attendance Officer and Head Teacher meet to monitor and discuss children with under 97% attendance. Decisions are made on letters to be sent home, which parents need to meet with the head and who needs to be referred to the Somerset County Council Educational Safeguarding Welfare Officer.
Attendance concern letters and meeting procedure as follows:
Unexplained absences:
Late letters: