Term Dates and Attendance

Term Dates 2024 - 2025

School will be closed children for INSET (staff training) days on Monday 2nd September 2024, Tuesday 3rd September 2024, Friday 29th November 2024, Friday 20th December 2024 and Wednesday 23rd July 2025.

School will also be closed for Good Friday on the 18th April 2025, Easter Monday on the 21st April 2025 and May Day Bank Holiday on 5th May 2025.

Miss S Chapman is our school Attendance and Admin Officer

Click here to read our School Attendance Policy

DID YOU KNOW..... 

If your child misses only one day a week for their whole time in school they would miss the equivalent of two years schooling.

That would be like not starting school until you were 7 or leaving school at 14.

Being late for school can mean missing vital work and seriously disrupts lessons for everyone.

Remember the law treats lateness and non-attendance in exactly the same way!

This is a successful school and every child plays their part in making it so. We aim for an environment which enables and encourages all pupils to achieve their potential and aspire to excellence.

For our children to gain the greatest benefit from their education it is vital that they attend regularly and every child should be at school, on time, every day the school is open unless they have an unavoidable reason to be absent. Any absence affects the pattern of a child’s schooling and regular absence will seriously affect their learning.

Absence or late arrival also disrupts teaching routines and so may affect the learning of others in the same class.

Government research shows a direct link between attendance and attainment and good attenders also make better progress socially, learn to work with others, and are better prepared for the transition to secondary school and, eventually, higher education, training and employment.

Our attendance target this year is 96%, but all pupils should strive to achieve 100% attendance if they can.

The school's Senior Leadership Team regularly monitors the attendance of all children. We work closely with the Local Authority to improve attendance.

Lost minutes = Lost learning

Leave in Term Time 

By law, all children of compulsory school age (between 5 and 16) must get a suitable full time education. As a parent, you are responsible for making sure this happens and if you fail to ensure a child of compulsory school age who is registered at a school attends regularly, legal action may be taken by the Local Authority.