Attendance

Attendance
at St John’s Catholic Infant School

Attendance Matters - Every school day counts!

Children need to attend school regularly to benefit from their education. At St John’s Infants, we firmly believe that every lesson counts, as does every day at school. For a child to reach their academic potential high attendance at school is essential. We expect children to attend school if they are fit enough to do so. We believe that our children should enjoy coming to school and we provide a caring and rewarding environment for the children to learn. 

We are focusing on continuing to improve our attendance figures across the school this year. Good attendance at school is very important. If you are not in school, you can’t learn. This year we aim to have an attendance percentage of 96% or above. An "Attendance Matters" information leaflet about our attendance policy and how you can help as parents and carers and how we at St John’s will be supporting you can be downloaded below.

We will be rewarding good attendance across the year in a variety of different ways. Download our policy below to read about them and our expectations for attendance.

The guidance issued by The Department for Education in 2022 to all schools, regardless of their status, and Local Authorities in relation to School Attendance has now been updated and becomes statutory from 19th August 2024. Following the regulations for Holidays in Term Time, I am just reminding you that the Governors will not grant any holidays requested in term time. Please be aware that changes have been made to Fixed Penalty Notices, more information can be found in the letter to Parents/Carers below.

Should you need to request a leave of absence for exceptional circumstances, an “Application for Leave during term time” form must be completed and sent into Mrs Bulmer at least 2 weeks before the proposed leave, stating the reasons for the request. This will then be considered by the Governors.