Attendance
Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
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Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
Attendance matters
The school has established an effective system of incentives and rewards that acknowledges the efforts of pupils to improve their attendance and timekeeping and will challenge the behaviour of those pupils and parents who give low priority to attendance and punctuality. To meet these objectives Lift Hamford has an effective and efficient system of communication with pupils, parents and appropriate agencies to provide mutual information, advice and support.
Our whole school target is 96% which is in line with the Government's national expectation
Children feeling unwell
Children can’t help being sick and sometimes they have an illness that will require time off school and a visit to the doctors. However, taking regular one or two days off soon adds up! Sometimes our children have coughs and colds and may not feel their normal self but they are probably well enough for school.
If a child has a minor illness (e.g. a headache, cold or a sore throat etc.), we ask that Parents/Carers bring them into school and inform staff that their child is feeling unwell. School will always contact Parents/Carers if a child’s condition worsens or if they become poorly during the school day. Please see the link below for the official guidance from Public Health England regarding illnesses and whether time off school is advised.
Please ensure you call into the school by 9am if your child is going to be off school. The school will ask you to provide medical evidence for the illness you are reporting.
If your child is unable to attend school, please notify the school as soon as possible: Contact us
Contact the school to report the absence and provide the reason and expected return date.
Keep the school informed of your child’s progress and update the expected return date where possible. Absences can be reported by phone or via the school’s dedicated absence email: Contact us
If we haven’t heard from you by a set time (usually 10:30 am), a member of the school’s administration team will contact you to confirm the reason for absence.
Parents and carers are legally responsible for ensuring their child attends school regularly and punctually. Failure to do so could result in legal action by the local authority.
Under the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 2006, only the school can authorise an absence – not parents or carers.
Time off for holidays during term time is not a legal right. Any request for a leave of absence must be made in advance by completing an absence form and submitting it to the school office. If a holiday is taken without permission, the absence will be recorded as ‘unauthorised’ and could result in legal action.
You can read the government advice here:
https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence
Regular school attendance is essential because:
Persistent lateness can:
Cause embarrassment to the child.
Make it harder for the child to settle.
Cause disruption to the rest of the class.
School Gates open at 8.40am and the school day begins at 8.50am. Children arriving after 9.00am will be marked as Late and unauthorised after 9.30am
The school operates a First Day Response and will telephone families where children have failed to attend school in time for morning registration.
Did you know? – Being just 5 minutes late each day adds up to 3 days of learning loss across a year!
Lift Hamford,
Elm Tree Avenue,
Walton on the Naze, Essex
CO14 8TE
