Attendance
At St. Peter’s we provide a broad, balanced and rich curriculum that strives to ‘Unlock the Potential inside each and every unique individual’. For our children to maximise on the opportunities that we provide it is essential that they maintain good attendance.
The Department for Education (DfE) guidance, ‘Working together to improve school attendance’, states that:
“…schools and partners should work in partnership with pupils and parents collaboratively to remove any barriers to attendance by building strong and trusting relationships and working together to put the right support in place.”
Government statistics demonstrate that the pupils with the highest attainment at the end of key stage 2 and key stage 4 have higher rates of attendance over the key stage compared to those with the lowest attainment. Good attendance helps children build strong learning habits and ensures they don’t miss out on key parts of the curriculum. Being late also causes disruption, not just for your child, but for the whole class.
Attendance is measured as a percentage of sessions attended. Each school day has two sessions, morning and afternoon, which adds up to 380 sessions in a school year.
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Good attendance is 96% or above.
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A two-week absence (20 sessions) drops attendance to 94.7%.
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Missing one day every two weeks adds up to 38 sessions, reducing attendance to 90%.
Even small amounts of absence can have a big impact over time.
For further information regarding school attendance, please read the Attendance Policy found below.
