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.
We believe that regular attendance is essential for students to achieve their best and benefit fully from their education. Attending school every day helps students build strong relationships, develop key life skills and prepare for future success.
If your child has 100% attendance then they have done brilliantly. That can be achieved by booking appointments and visits outside of school time. Most importantly this will give your child the best possible chance of success in exams.
On the rare occasion your child is ill please make sure you call us and follow up with a letter to confirm absence.
Children with attendance below 95% do on average find subjects more difficult. If your child's attendance drops below 97% your child's tutor will look on how we can support you. If their attendance drops significantly below 95% they will end up missing between half and a whole year of education. This will have a significant impact on their life chances.
Where a child refuses school they do place their parents at risk of prosecution. Where attendance is regularly below 95% there is again a risk to those parents where a legitimate reason is not provided.
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 10:00am), you will be contacted by our administration team regarding the reason for absence. Failure to report the absence will result in your child's absence being recorded as unauthorised.
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
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Regular school attendance is essential because:
If your son or daughter is going to be absent please telephone the school before 8:30am to notify us on 01264 325970. We will also require a letter confirming their absence on their return.
All follow up emails should be sent to absence@liftwinton.org
Lift Winton,
London Road,
Andover, Hampshire
SP10 2PS
