Attendance
At Hugh Gaitskell Primary School we believe that good school attendance and good punctuality gives children the opportunity of success and helps develop skills for life. We believe it is vital that all children attend school every day unless there is an unavoidable and justifiable cause.
At Hugh Gaitskell Primary School we believe that good school attendance and good punctuality gives children the opportunity of success and helps develop skills for life. We believe it is vital that all children attend school every day unless there is an unavoidable and justifiable cause.
DID YOU KNOW THAT IF YOUR CHILD MISSES SCHOOL ON A REGULAR BASIS IT MAY:
- Seriously hinder your child’s learning and their ability to do well and achieve their potential.
- Affect their confidence to attempt new learning and their ability to work and learn alongside others in general and as a result develop reluctance or indeed refuse to attend school
- Disrupt your child’s routines and make them feel vulnerable on their return to school
- Cause disruption to teaching routines (if teachers need to revisit previous learning) and as a result affect the learning of other children in your child’s class
- Affect their ability to make and sustain friendship groups. Children who are regularly absent from school often feel excluded from play-time games and activities and feel they have little in common with their peers
- Lead to your child becoming disillusioned with school and education as they get older
- Lead to you, as the parent / carer, facing legal and financial consequences. Please remember that you have a legal duty to ensure your child attends school on a regular basis
It is amazing how quickly absence can mount up, please look at the table below which shows how absence equates to learning time lost.
The school gates open at 8:40 am. The school day starts promptly at 8:50 am.
If your child arrives late to school, he/she will miss the vital part of the teacher’s instructions for the lesson/day along with the embarrassment of entering the classroom late.
As you can see in the table, a few minutes have a huge impact on your child’s loss of learning and on the progress which they make. Lateness also affects the whole class with the disruption of the teacher's input to the lesson. The table indicates the impact of lost learning for pupils which are frequently/consistently late to school. This will put your child at a disadvantage.
