Encouraging regular school attendance is one of the most powerful ways you can prepare your child for success, both in school and in life. When you make school attendance a priority, you help your child get better grades, develop healthy life habits, avoid dangerous behaviour and have a better chance of achieving their full potential.
Students who attend school regularly also feel more connected to their community, develop important social skills and friendships. We aim to support students and their families to maintain excellent attendance and improve their attendance over time. However, persistent absence (this means children who attend less than 90%) may require further intervention such as Early Help Assessment, Pastoral Support Review or leading to a fixed penalty notice.
Regular attendance at school is crucial to each student making the best possible progress. Attendance levels are expected to be above 97% and any student falling below this level will be monitored carefully. Please make every effort to send your child to school each day.
Daily Procedures
- Students must be in their form rooms by 8.45am ready for registration with their form tutor.
- If your child is unable to come to school for any reason please contact the Academy through your MCAS app before 8am ideally so that it can be processed, or as soon as possible that morning. Please provide your Child’s full name, registration group and reason why they are absent. We require this every morning that they are absent.
- If we haven’t had a reason for your child's absence by 10am, a Bromcom message will be sent out to parents/carers. It is really important to respond to the message otherwise the absence will be unauthorised.
Medical / Dental Appointments
Medical and dental appointments should be arranged out of school hours wherever possible. On the rare occasion that this is not possible, please report this in advance using methods above including;
- Date
- Time
- Reason for absence- we can then code this absence appropriately.
Holidays
The Department of Education changed the regulations regarding requests for family holidays during term time. Requests for family holidays taken in term time are not permitted. A holiday taken in term time will be unauthorised and may result in a fixed penalty notice (FPN) unless there are extenuating circumstances.
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Our process is in line with Lincolnshire education authority: Student progress manager and attendance officer meet regularly to discuss students and monitor figures;
Information passed on to county that can lead to;
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Impact of absence on student progress
As you can see from the table below:
- If a student attends at least 95% of the time they will improve their expected outcomes by around half a grade per subject
- Once attendance drops below 90%, progress is negatively impacted.
- At 80% attendance, typically students will underachieve by around 1 grade per subject.
- Extremely low attendance has a significant impact on outcomes.
- The difference between 100% attendance and 80% attendance is almost two grades of progress per subject.
Percentage Attendance |
Number of Lessons Missed (Equivalent to) |
Number of Days Absent (Equivalent to) |
Impact on Academic Progress (Proportion of grades per subject) |
100% |
0 |
0 |
+0.73 |
95% |
47.5 |
9.5 |
+0.46 |
90% |
95 |
19 |
-0.28 |
85% |
142.5 |
28.5 |
-0.64 |
80% |
190 |
38 |
-0.95 |
50% |
475 |
95 |
-2.83 |
A student who is not in an exam year will miss key learning and skills which are needed to embed their knowledge across the curriculum. Unfortunately they will have 'gaps' in their learning, which students then find it difficult to catch up.
For further guidance please find helpful links below:
- Early Help Strategy - Team Around the Child - Professional resources (lincolnshire.gov.uk)
- Futures4me - Requesting support from Future For Me - Professional resources (lincolnshire.gov.uk)
- Young Carers - Young Carers - Young Carers Service - Lincolnshire County Council
- Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) pathway - Social, emotional and mental health - Professional resources (lincolnshire.gov.uk)
- Healthy Minds/CAMHS - Healthy Minds Lincolnshire: Lincolnshire Young Minds (lpft.nhs.uk) and Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) strategy for Lincolnshire 2023 to 2026 - Lincolnshire County Council
- Behaviour Outreach Support Service (BOSS) - Lincolnshire Behaviour Outreach Support Service (BOSS) - Family Action (family-action.org.uk)
- Graduated Approach - Identifying and supporting SEND - The Graduated Approach - Lincolnshire County Council
- Ethnic Minority and Traveller Education - Ethnic minority and Traveller education - Lincolnshire County Council
- Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children's Partnership - Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership - About the LSCP - Lincolnshire County Council
- Virtual School - The virtual school - What is the virtual school? - Lincolnshire County Council
- Child to Parent abuse support (PEGS)
- PEGS supports both parents and professionals in dealing with the issues associated with child to parent abuse.
- Offering awareness and training programs to help people to learn new tools and techniques when dealing with abusive children, explain what other support networks and frameworks exist in the UK.
- Telephone: 07878568063 or E-mail: hello@pegsupport.com
- EDAN Lincs - Domestic Abuse Service is a registered charity. We cover the county of Lincolnshire, and provide support and assistance to men, women and children suffering, or fleeing from domestic abuse -edanlincs.org.uk
- Supporting Children around substance misuse - We are with you Lincolnshire
- Telephone: SPOC 0800 3047021
- Email: YoungPersonsLincolnshire@wearewithyou.org.uk
- Emotional wellbeing and mental health support for children and young people in Lincolnshire continues to be available using more telephone/video call and online methods.
- Young people aged 11-19 can go to www.kooth.com for online support, forums and advice or visit www.lpft.nhs.uk/young-people for self-help, including relaxation techniques, video and online workshops
- Healthy Minds-Advice and support available - www.lpft.nhs.uk/young-people/lincolnshire/professionals/service-offer-and-referrals/healthy-minds-lincolnshire
- Visit www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/emotionalwellbeing to see a full list of services available