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Attendance & Punctuality<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

At Greatfields we are committed to ensuring the best for all our students. We do this by working closely with parents and carers to support good attendance of students at school.<\/p>\n

Good school attendance improves a young person\u2019s chance of success in life and helps establish positive attitudes to life-long learning. There is clear evidence between poor attendance at school and low levels of achievement. Only 35% pupils who have less than 90% attendance achieve five or more good GCSEs, but 73% of pupils who have an attendance of 95% or more will achieve this.<\/p>\n

If a child has an attendance level of 90% they will have missed one day a fortnight in school. Over a school year, this will represent four weeks of absence. If this level of absence were maintained for, a five-year period, it would mean half a school year would have been missed.<\/p>\n

School target: 97.5%<\/b><\/p>\n

At Greatfields school if we are concerned about your child\u2019s attendance we will go through the following stages:<\/p>\n

Stage 1 \u2013 attendance below 95% \u2013 Head of Year will write to you with our initial concerns.<\/p>\n

Stage 2 \u2013 attendance below 90% \u2013 we will invite you into school for a meeting with one of our Pastoral team to discuss ways we can support you and your child\u2019s attendance.<\/p>\n

Stage 3 \u2013 attendance below 85% \u2013 we will invite you to a formal meeting with our Family Liaison Office responsible for attendance where you may be issued with a fixed penalty notice, a parenting order or told that formal proceedings for prosecution (court warning letter) will be taken resulting in a fine of \u00a31,000 and a criminal record.<\/p>\n

As you receive your child\u2019s attendance on every school report, if you notice that the attendance record is incorrect, please do call us and we will happily make any necessary changes.<\/p>\n

If you or your child feel further assistance is needed with improving school attendance, please speak to your child’s Head of Year or ask to speak to the Family Liaison Officer who will be happy to discuss further support.<\/p>\n

At Greatfields, we are determined to ensure that all of our students have the opportunity to achieve success and have an excellent record of attendance. Where there is a cause for concern you will be contacted and attendance will be closely monitored. If attendance does not improve because of support, we are required by law to take further actions (as outlined above).<\/p>\n

Please also note that the school is required by law to apply directly for a penalty notice in two situations (not using stage 1-3 outlined above):<\/p>\n