Good attendance is linked with achievement in school. This is why at All Saints Primary School we consider arriving at school on time and attending every day extremely important.

Children who come to school regularly are more likely to:

• Achieve good standards of work
• Get on well with other children and have good friends
• Develop positive attitudes towards work which will help them later on in life, whatever their choice of career may be in adult life

Children who are frequently absent are more likely to:

• Fall behind in their work
• Find it difficult to make and keep friends
• Be unhappy at school
• Have a poor attitude to work
• Get involved in crime, drug use and anti-social behaviour

Of course, some absences are unavoidable.  If a child is genuinely ill then we understand why he/she needs to stay off school.  We know that parents want the best for their children, and we want to encourage parents to make their child's education a priority, so that at All Saints C of E Primary School children can achieve their best.  Regular attendance at school is an important part of helping your children to achieve.  Attendance at school has a direct effect on academic achievement, this is particularly marked when our children enter Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 because of Standard Assessment Tasks and Tests and again at upper school because of public examinations.  No pupil should register an attendance score of less than 94%.

Please do all you can to:

• Ensure your child attends regularly and arrives on time
• Contact us at an early stage if there are any problems, so that we can seek a solution and support your child effectively
• Do not allow your child to stay off school for a trivial reason, the absence will not be authorised by school
• Arrange Doctors/Dental appointments out of school hours.  Your child should attend school on the day of any appointment to minimise the time lost in lessons