Attendance (Absences)
Good attendance is linked to a child's achievement at school. Children must only be absent from school if they are ill. If your child is going to be absent, please contact the school before 8.30am and advise the reason for absence.
There are 3 options for sending the school an absence message:
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send a message through the school app ‘Arbor’;
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email admin@queensmanorprimary.org.uk; or
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telephone the office on 0207 385 4343.
Appointments with doctors, dentists or at a hospital should be made outside of school hours or in the holidays. Where this is not possible, the details of the appointment including any letters must be brought into the School Office or emailed to admin@queensmanorprimary.org.uk the day before, or earlier if possible, so that the register can be marked accordingly.
If parents and carers do not provide a reason for the absence it remains unauthorised until a reason is provided. If a pupil’s attendance falls below 95%, families will receive an attendance awareness phone call from the Home School Liaison Officer, support will be offered, and medical evidence requested. Senior Leadership will be made aware at weekly attendance meetings and this will be noted on a pupil’s file. If there is no improvement to attendance within 2 weeks, parents/carers will be invited to attend an attendance panel meeting to discuss poor attendance and an attendance plan will be created.
A continuous lack of improvement to attendance will result in a referral to the attendance team within the Local Authority who may issue a Penalty Notice which could also result in court proceedings. The persistent absence threshold is 10%. If a pupil's individual overall absence rate is greater than or equal to 10%, the pupil will be classified as a persistent absentee.