Attendance

At Langley Park Primary Academy, excellent attendance and punctuality is our aim for each and every pupil. Learning opportunities are maximised when good attendance is achieved and you, as parents and carers, play a vital role in promoting a good attitude towards attendance and punctuality. We therefore ask for your support in ensuring that your child is present at every opportunity and arrives at school on time. 

There is a high correlation between good attendance and successful academic achievement; regular and punctual school attendance helps a child to develop responsibility, self-discipline and fosters the skills necessary for the future.

School starts promptly at 8.55am. Please ensure that your child arrives to school on time and is in class and ready to learn. 

If your child is absent, you have a duty to inform the school office on 01622 250880 by 9.15am each and every day that they are absent. If the school does not hear from you, office staff will attempt to contact you for a reason for absence.

Please be aware that if your child is absent from school and no reason can be established for their absence then this will be recorded as unauthorised, until such a time that your child returns to school. Please provide absence information to school office staff and not to class teachers, as they do not have time to share this with office staff before the school day begins.

If you call the school office and staff are unable to answer the phone at the time of your call, then you should leave a message providing your child's full name, their class and the reason for their absence.

Today, at the end of Term 3, we have issued the following certificates:

These were handed out in class today unobtrusively and, if your child received one of these certificates, they should feel very proud of their achievement.

Well done to all children who received any of the above attendance certificates.

Bright futures... start with excellent school attendance

A missed school day is a lost opportunity for pupils to learn and build on knowledge. Pupils who attend school regularly will achieve at higher levels than those pupils who have poor attendance, and the relationship between attendance and attainment can appear very early on in a child's educational journey, particularly when high levels of absenteeism result in pupils regularly missing lessons in phonics, reading and  maths.

The effects of lost school days build up one absence at a time and it is therefore important to recognise that any absence, whether authorised or not, denies a child the opportunity to learn. Evidence shows that a pupil's progress and attainment is directly affected if their attendance falls below 90% and it is for this reason that schools have a statutory duty to address poor, irregular or non-attendance even before a child's attendance falls to this level. It is also worth noting that parents have a legal duty to ensure that their child, of compulsory school age, receives a full-time education, and failure to do this can result in penalty fines, referrals to the Local Authority and even prosecution.

   

Attendance Statistics for Term 3

Compared with statistics from Term 2, this term has seen:

Current academy attendance by class