Attendance
School attendance is really important for all sorts of reasons including supporting children with academic progress but also giving them the best chance of developing good social connections – if you’re not in – you miss out.
Parents are required under the Education Act (1996) to ensure children attend school regularly. The headteacher of a school has a discretionary power to authorise absence only in exceptional circumstances. A family holiday is not an exceptional circumstance. If you complete a leave of absence request form and the request is declined, (as it will be in the majority of cases) and you still take your child out of school, each parent within your household may be issued with a £80 penalty notice for each child you have taken out of school.
Please see our Attendance policy in our Policies section for more information.
Punctuality
Infant gates open at 8:45am. There is a 10-minute window in which parents can drop off and a member of staff will be on the gate to greet them during this period. Children must be in for registration. Registration is at 8:55am.
There will be a member of staff on the Junior playground from 8:40am. Please do not leave your children before this time as they will not be supervised. All teachers will be on the playground to greet their class at 8:45am; when a bell is rung to signal to the children it’s time to line up and come into school. Registration is at 8:55am.
The register closes at 8.55am/1pm. Any child arriving after 8.55am/1pm (but before 9:15am/1:10pm) is marked as late using the L code.
Children arriving after 9:15am/1:10pm are marked as arriving late but before the end of the session using the U code.
Please find information from South Gloucestershire Council on Penalty fines below.