1. Pupils’ Attendance Register

Purpose of the Pupils’ Attendance Register:

• keep record of the student’s attendance.

Regulation governing the use of the Pupils’ Attendance Register:

• The attendance register should be marked every time the school meets, however small the attendance maybe, or even if no pupil is present, marking should begin the first day of the school year and end on the last day thereof.

• Unpunctuality should also be indicated.

• Adequate time for marking the register shall be provided in the timetable, according to the numbers of people on roll.

• The maximum time for marking registers is 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the afternoon.

• The names of boys shall be entered separately from those of the girls in the register. As far as possible, division or class/level registers shall be kept.

• When a pupil has been absent from school for 3 months without notification of withdrawal, an entry of the fact shall be made in the withdrawal column of the admission register and in the circumstances the people’s name shall not be rewritten in the attendance register for the next term.