Attendance and Punctuality at St Aidan's

Attendance and Punctuality

At St Aidan's C of E Primary School, we expect all our children to achieve at least 96% attendance percentage each year.  However, we know that there can sometimes be exceptional reasons why children cannot attend school, such as illness.

At St Aidan's, we support our families to achieve this target of 96%.  We know that sometimes, absence is unavoidable however this should be minimal.  As a school we will support families, however, we will not tolerate poor attendance.  We aim to act at the earliest point to ensure that when attendance dips, we listen, support, understand and set targets, to get children back into school.

When children are absent from school they miss out on their education, they miss time to build and develop friendships, they miss fun, memorable, life changing experiences.

Our school strives for an excellent education for all.  To support this, we encourage the highest possible levels of attendance and punctuality.

By seeing our children every day and providing them with an educationally safe and secure environment, we can support their learning, and enable them to achieve their potential.

Through good attendance, we believe that we can promote the development of the whole child. We work with our families to encourage children to attend school every day, and on time, so that they can flourish and achieve highly. 

Being in school is important to every child’s achievement, wellbeing, and wider personal development. 

We believe that attendance is everybody's responsibility.  Staff, parents, carers, pupils and all members of each school’s community have an important contribution in improving attendance and punctuality, ensuring pupils attend so they can achieve the very best they can. 

Parents and Carers please ensure that your child arrives promptly in school and ready to start the school day. Classroom doors open at 8.50am ready to start school at 8.55am.