Attendance

Attendance Monitoring

Every week we monitor the absence and lateness within our school and we will send letters to the families of all children which fall into the following categories:

Yellow – Attendance 94% – 95.4% and/or PA at 10.1% – 12%

Attendance is below national average. A child’s attendance needs further improvement to avoid becoming disadvantaged in their learning.

Amber – Attendance 92.5% – 93.9% and/or PA at 12.1% – 14%

Attendance is well below the national average and is causing concern. It is highly likely that a child is disadvantaged by poor attendance.

Red – Attendance 92.4% or below and/or PA 15% or above

A child’s attendance is persistently and significantly below average and is significantly disadvantaged as a result of poor attendance.

Although we understand that some of the absence may be due to illness or unavoidable time away we will still send the letter in order to support children with poor attendance, irrespective of the reasons.

 

Reporting Absence

It is important that if your child is absent that you inform the school office by 9.00am. Please ring 01502 713281 and leave a message, stating your child’s name, class and reason for absence.

Time Away From Learning

We will only authorise absence in exceptional circumstances and this is at the discretion of the Headteacher. Holidays will not be authorised.

Please see our Policies page to view our Attendance Policy.

At Beccles Primary, if a child has 6 or more sessions (half-days) of unauthorised absence, a fixed penalty notice will be issued.

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