Attendance Intent, Implementation and Impact

Intent

East Dene Primary School is committed to the continuous raising of achievement of all our students. Regular attendance is essential if our students are to be successful and benefit from the opportunities offered to them.

Good attendance is fundamental a successful and fulfilling school experience. We actively promote 100% attendance for all our students and we use a variety of weekly, termly and annual rewards to promote good attendance and punctuality.

The Governors and Staff in partnership with parents/carers have a duty to promote full attendance and our school will give a high priority to conveying to parents and students the importance of regular and punctual attendance.

We recognise that parents have a vital role to play and there is a need to establish strong home-school links and communication systems that can be used whenever there is concern about attendance. If there are problems which affect a pupil’s attendance we will strive, in partnership with parents and students, to resolve those problems as quickly and efficiently as possible. We will adopt a clearly focused but sympathetic approach, aimed at returning students to full attendance at all times.

Implementation

At East Dene Primary School, we offer a safe and supportive environment, which welcomes children regardless of race, gender or ability. We foster a climate where the school community, teachers, parents/carers, governors and pupils value attendance and punctuality. There will be clear and effective procedures in place complying with legal requirements. Parents/carers will be informed about their child’s attendance through established procedures. We will offer a broad and balanced curriculum that is dependent upon and encourages regular attendance at school. Our attendance officer will have first day contact with parents when a pupil fails to attend school without providing good reason. we will also take prompt action on any problems notified. Parents will be encouraged to make contact with the school to discuss any issues impacting on their child’s attendance.

We will give classes with 100% attendance £10:00 each week, this will be displayed on our attendance board, put on twitter and our facebook page for parents to see. This will also be announced at Monday afternoon’s assembly. Termly and annual rewards for children with 100%, including certificates, non-uniform, the class with the least number of lates will also have a non-uniform day.

Impact

Over the last 3 years with all our strategies in place we have seen an increase in our attendance and a decline in our persistent absence data. We are on an upward projection, and need to keep these high expectations around attendance up, to ensure that we meet our school target of 96%

Attending School

Attending School – Information for Parents 2023/24

Absence Flow Chart