Attendance

Your child’s education is very important. Regular school attendance will help them fulfil their potential and ensure they have a brighter future. Going to school every day will help your child learn, develop and achieve. It will build help your child build confidence, friendships and ambition. The more your child is in school the more likely they are to succeed at exams and at life.

As a school, we want:

• Our pupils to be in school and learning every day
• Our whole school attendance percentage to be at least 97%
• To be given a reason for any pupil absence
• Families to take holidays within the school holiday periods
• Unauthorised absence to be minimal
• Our children to arrive on time for school.

Please click the link below to find the ONE Trust Remote Learning Policy. 

ONE Trust School Attendance Policy

100% Attendance

 At Knop Law, we celebrate pupils each half term, who are able to achieve 100% attendance. This exemplary achievement gives pupils a significant advantage in their learning journey. 

Attendance and Punctuality

Our school recently received a national award for pupil attendance. We are in the top 25% of all FFT Primary Schools in England!

Understanding absence percentages -Did you know?

You may wonder why a school would be concerned if your child’s attendance is less than 95%. This may make it easier to understand:

• 95% = half a day off every two weeks, 10 days absence over the year.
• 90% = a day off every two weeks, 19 days absence over the year.
• A child whose attendance is below 90% is regarded as persistently absent
• 85% = one and a half days off every two weeks, 29 days absence over the year. This is the same as a whole half term absence.
• 80% = a whole day off every week, 38 days absence over the year.

Punctuality

Parents/carers have the responsibility to ensure that their child arrives on time for school each morning. The school gates open at 8.20am and learning begins at 8.30am. 

Pupils who arrive after registers close will be marked as unauthorised late (which affects their attendance percentage).

If a pupil arrives late, they miss an important part of the school day; this can affect their self-esteem and learning.

Lateness adds up and as you can see, even 5 minutes late everyday leads to a total of 3 days of learning lost each year!