Attendance

At our school, we have high aspirations for our pupils and want to give them the very best start in life and that means being in school, and on time, every day. Every day a child misses school, they’re missing valuable learning and social interactions with their friends. We are committed to ensuring that every child accesses the 32.5 hours a week schooling that pupils should receive by law. 

Our Attendance target is 97%. The table below outlines how poor attendance can impact your child's education:

We want our pupils to succeed and develop their skills. To do this, pupils need to avoid missing lessons and days of school as much as possible. As a school, we want to reward high attendance and not just penalise pupils for poor attendance.

As a school, we promote good attendance in a variety of ways including:

• Talking about attendance in classrooms and assemblies
• Sharing whole school attendance figures for each class in Friday assemblies and awarding 10 minutes of extra play to the winning class
• Weekly prize draw for children with 100% attendance for the week
• Sharing attendance figures in the school newsletter

To encourage good attendance we will:

• monitor attendance regularly and liaise with families if there are any concerns;
• support families in ensuring that their children attend school regularly.

We ask that families help us by:

• notifying the school promptly if your child is ill or absent for any unavoidable reason;
• completing a request by email, in advance, to request authorisation for any unavoidable absence;
• making non-urgent medical appointments outside of school hours, whenever possible;
• booking holidays outside of term time, as we cannot authorise term-time absences for family holidays.

St Mary's Priory follows Haringey guidelines regarding authorised and unauthorised absences. We request that all absences are reported (each day) via the school office: office@stmarysrcpriory.haringey.sch.uk by 9.30am. If a child is not reported absent by 9.30am, the office will contact the family. 

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