Good attendance is important because... Statistics show that pupils with good attendance have higher attainment in school and studies show that children with attendance above 96% make better progress socially and academically.

With the focus and development on the curriculum that has taken place at school then children who are absent will find gaps in their sequential knowledge.

For our younger children, both attendance and punctuality are doubly important as they move straight into their phonics groups after the register has been taken.

The current attendance from the start of the year across the school currently looks like this...

The table opposite demonstrates how much school children miss if they are absent and it is surprising how this adds up.