Regular school attendance enables children to maximise the educational opportunities available to them. Excellent attendance helps children to become emotionally resilient, confident and competent adults who are able to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to their community.

Barnby and North Cove Primary School values all children. We work with families to identify the barriers to achieving and maintaining excellent attendance and offer the right services, at the right time, to resolve difficulties. 

Attendance concerns will be raised with parents (when reasons are not known by the school, e.g. recovery from an operation). This information may also be shared with the Local Authority. Where we have concerns, or there is a lack of engagement from families to improve attendance, we will follow the school’s staged approach to improving attendance.

Our graduated approach is child-centred and prioritises support and developing strong working relationships with families. We will use the Early Help process to provide support prior to escalation and consider how we can work with families to enable children to access their right to education.

An attendance summary will be shared with all parents each half term. Parents can also access their child’s live attendance figure, at any time, through the Arbor app. 

We also would encourage our families to seek help from the School Nursing Service. Please access their website via this link

 

At Barnby and North Cove Primary School, we maintain and promote good attendance and punctuality through:

• Raising awareness of attendance and punctuality issues among all staff, parents and pupils.

• Ensuring that parents understand the responsibility placed on them for making sure their pupil attends regularly and punctually.

• Provide parents with accurate, real time attendance data via the Arbor website.

• Equipping pupils with the life skills needed to take responsibility for good school attendance and punctuality appropriate to the child’s age and development.

• Maintaining effective means of communication with parents, pupils, staff and Trust Board on school attendance matters.

• Developing and implementing procedures for identifying, reporting and reviewing cases of poor attendance and persistent lateness.

• Supporting pupils who have been experiencing any difficulties at home or at school which are preventing good attendance by identifying barriers to school and developing strategies to overcome these.

• Developing and implementing procedures to follow up non-attendance at school. 

 

Graduated Plan:

Where a child’s attendance record does not improve over a period the following process will take place:

 • 95% letter to inform parents of attendance  

• 92% if no improvement following the 95% letter

• Parents to attend meeting to discuss attendance

• Attendance action plan with parents/carers (4 weeks)

• Review action plan

• No improvement - legal interventions

 

If you wish to discuss any aspect of attendance please contact Mr Simon Lea, Academy Headteacher.

Please also see the information below.