Children who attend school regularly make better progress academically and socially. To help a child achieve full attendance, parents and carers play an important role in helping us promote good attitudes towards attendance and punctuality.

Together, it is important we ensure that children are present at every opportunity, arriving on time, and not taken out of the academy without authorisation. A child’s attendance is monitored closely by the Attendance team, and we will follow up unexplained absences with parents or carers.

Where a child’s attendance record reaches a concerning level or when there are unexplained absences, we will contact the child’s parents or carers to discuss ways in which we can support to help improve the child’s attendance.

There are 190 school days in an academic year. Use the calculator above to input the number of days you or your child has been absent.

This will then be shown as a percentage in the Projected Attendance (%) box.

Hopefully, this calculator can give you or your child an indicator of how days off can impact their personal attendance figures.

If your child is absent from school, please contact school by phone before 9.00 a.m. to let us know. If no one answers the phone please leave a message. Phone messages are always checked before emails so please do not email absences. We are always concerned and it is our duty of care for us to know that your child is absent legitimately.

Unauthorised absences are recorded as a result of failure to inform school about any absence or for holidays taken in term time. A “Late” mark is given to any child arriving after the register has been closed each day (8.55 a.m.). A termly letter is sent to parents giving details of your child’s attendance.

Whole School Attendance

If the school has to be closed in an emergency, contact will be made by website, email, text and announced on Radio Lancashire. Children will be kept in school until they can be collected, or taken home.

Winter closures: Initial notification is via the scrolling text on the home page of our website. This is followed by texts, email and announcements on Radio Lancashire.