Attendance

The intent, implementation and impact of our attendance

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

Years 1-6 Last school year we saw a decline in attendace and persistant sbsense, where as the previous two years with all our strategies in place we have seen an increase in our attendance and a decline in our persistant absence data. We are aiming to be back on our way upward projection, and need to help these high expectations aroound attendance up, to ensure that we meet our school target of 96% Academic Year Overall Attendance Persistent Absence 2021-2022 93.2% 56 2020-2021 95.3% 26 2019-2020 94.7% 26 Attendance Breakdown of disadvantaged groups EAL has hit the school target once in 3 years. EHCP attendance has improved since 2020-2021 Free school meals, boys, girls, pupil premium and SEN support children’s attendance has declined since 2020-2021. 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 EAL 93.06% 95.3% 96.1% Free School Meals 92.3% 94.3% 93.3% Boys 92.5% 94.9% 95.4% Girls 93.3% 95.3% 94.1% Pupil Premium 92.36% 94.6% 93.3% EHCP 87.61% 84.9% 92.7% Sen Support Plan 92.73% 95% 93.3%

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%

Years 1-6

Academic Year	Overall Attendance	Persistent Absence
2020-2021	95.3%	26
2019-2020	94.7%	26
2018-2019	95.5%	21

Over the last 3 years, EAL attendance has hit the school twice, Free School Meals, Girls, Pupil Premium and SEN support plan have shown an increase. Boys and EHCP have declined from last school year.

Attendance Breakdown of disadvantaged groups

	2020-2021	2019-2020	2018-2019
EAL	95.3%	96.1%	96.6%
Free School Meals	94.3%	93.3%	94.5%
Boys	94.9%	95.4%	94.9%
Girls	95.3%	94.1%	94.4%
Pupil Premium	94.6%	93.3%	94.8%
EHCP	84.9%	92.7%	89.7%
Sen Support Plan	95%	93.3%	94.9%

Research shows that pupils who attend school regularly are more likely to do well in the future. Regular attendance helps children to develop their confidence and to make and keep lasting friendships. At East Dene we promote positive relationships, with peers and staff, and this is reflected with children who have good attendance.