Attendance
We understand that sometimes it is difficult to know whether to send your child to school.
Please find advice from the NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/
It is important that your children attend school. When they do not, they miss out on significant hours of learning opportunities (broadly calculated as 5 hours, for every two sessions missed). These sessions are unlikely to be covered again. This places a child at significant risk of falling behind their peers:
|
Descriptor |
Threshold attendance |
Actual attendance |
Whole days of absence |
Learning Hours Lost |
|
Excellent |
100% 99% |
190 days 188 days |
0 2 |
0 10 |
|
Good |
98% 97% 96% |
186 days 184 days 182.5 days |
4 6 7.5 |
20 30 37.5 |
|
Cause for Concern |
95% 94% 93% 92% 91% |
180.5 days 179 days 177 days 175 days 173 days |
9.5 11 13 15 17 |
47.5 55 65 75 85 |
|
Unsatisfactory |
90% 89% 88% 87% |
171 days 169 days 167 days 165 days |
19 21 23 25 |
95 105 115 125 |
|
Serious cause for concern |
86% |
163 days |
27 |
135 |
|
Critical |
85% 84% 83% 82% 81% 80% |
161.5 days 159.5 days 158 days 156 days 154 days 152 days |
28.5 30.5 32 34 36 38 |
142.5 152.5 160 170 180 190 |
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It is also important to arrive at school on time. If a child arrives late to school every day, their learning begins to suffer. Below is a graph showing how being late to school every day over a school year adds up to lost learning time over one academic year.
DfE guidance on fines for absences
