Attendance
Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
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Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
We believe that regular attendance is essential for students to achieve their best and benefit fully from their education. Attending school every day helps students build strong relationships, develop key life skills and prepare for future success.
If your child is unable to attend school, please notify the school as soon as possible: Contact us
Contact the school to report the absence and provide the reason and expected return date.
Keep the school informed of your child’s progress and update the expected return date where possible. Absences can be reported by phone or via the school’s dedicated absence email: Contact us
If we haven’t heard from you by a set time (usually 10:30 am), a member of the school’s administration team will contact you to confirm the reason for absence.
Parents and carers are legally responsible for ensuring their child attends school regularly and punctually. Failure to do so could result in legal action by the local authority.
Under the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 2006, only the school can authorise an absence – not parents or carers.
Time off for holidays during term time is not a legal right. Any request for a leave of absence must be made in advance by completing an absence form and submitting it to the school office. If a holiday is taken without permission, the absence will be recorded as ‘unauthorised’ and could result in legal action.
You can read the government advice here:
https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence
Regular school attendance is essential because:
If you need to request a leave of absence during term time, you must complete a leave of absence form and return it to the school office. Please note that email requests cannot be accepted.
Due to the importance of attendance, please be aware that requests for holidays during term time will in the vast majority of cases not be authorised by the school. There is no legal right to take your child on holiday during term time; however, for exceptional reasons, up to ten days authorised absence from school can be granted.
If you wish to take your child on holiday then we request that you complete a holiday form and then return it into school. Each request is considered individually, taking into account factors like the reason for the holiday, its timing and the child’s attendance record.
Please note: the circumstance really do have to be exceptional. Unfortunately this does not include shift work or the set holiday calendar coinciding with busy periods of work.
If any family takes an unauthorised holiday of 5 days or more, or any holiday without notifying the school properly in advance, the school will make an application to Lincolnshire County Council to issue a fixed penalty notice. Your local council can give each parent a fine of £80 for each child absent, which rises to £160 each if you do not pay within 21 days. If you do not pay the fine after 28 days you may be prosecuted for your child’s absence from school. Any holiday taken without properly informing the school in advance will automatically be classed as unauthorised.
What are Exceptional Circumstances?
It is the decision of the Headteacher as to what might constitute exceptional circumstances and each request for term time leave will be considered on an individual basis.
Exceptional leave is NOT:
Availability of cheap flights and/or holidays
Availability of desired accommodation
Parent/carer work commitments
Poor weather experienced during school holiday periods
Overlap with the beginning or end of term, half term.
Exceptional leave MAY be:
Parent, grandparent or other close relative is seriously ill – and you must leave in an emergency
Significant trauma in the family recently and a holiday will benefit the child – this must be backed up by a doctor’s letter
A one-off, never to be repeated occasion that can only happen at that time, e.g. family wedding/funeral.
Lift North Thoresby
High Street,
North Thoresby,
Grimsby,
Lincolnshire,
DN36 5PL
