Attendance
Good school attendance is central to success for children. We seek to understand and remove any barrier to good school attendance by working collaboratively with families.
Please click here to see our latest Attendance Policy, and click here to download the Grant for Leave of Absence for Exceptional Circumstances.
To report your child absent, please call 01372 743104 and select option 1, or option 2 to speak with someone in the office.
Every child is expected to achieve 100% attendance.
Southfield Park Primary School is dedicated to promoting full attendance and understanding and supporting the root causes of absence. We aim to remove barriers to attendance by working collaboratively with families and local partners. To enable us to do this we:
- Expect high levels of attendance from all children and create a culture where children want to attend school every day
- Monitor attendance closely and analyse data to identify partners
- Listen to parents/carers and children to seek to understand barriers to attendance and agree next steps to enable improvement
- Support full attendance by removing barriers in school and help families access any support that they may need
- Formalise support when absence persists and voluntary support is not working or being engaged with
- Enforce attendance through statutory interventions when all other avenues have been exhausted
School Day Timings
Punctuality is very important and sets important lifelong habits.
The table below sets out the expectations for all children at Southfield Park Primary School for all year groups
|
Arrival from |
Registers taken |
Marked as ‘Late’ if arriving between |
Registers closed |
|
8:35 – 8:50am |
8:55-9:00am |
9:00-9:15am |
9:15am |
All registers will be considered ‘closed’ at 9:15am. Any children arriving after this time and who do not have a good reason for doing so are marked as having an unauthorised absence for that session.