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.
Research has shown that regular attendance and good punctuality are crucial factors in students achieving their full potential in education. At New Forest Academy we wish to work in partnership with parents and carers and so are seeking your full support in ensuring that your child attends Academy every day and on time. We are always pleased to work together with parents/carers in resolving any difficulties, but we are also committed to improving attendance levels at the Academy.
The target attendance figure for all pupils is a minimum of 97% attendance. Based on current attendance figures your child will be placed in one of the following groups below.
Group 1: No Concern - Green Group
The child attends for 97% - 100% of the time.
Group 2: Concern - Yellow Group
The child attends for 95% - 96.9% of the time.
Group 3: Risk of Underachievement – Amber Group
The child attends for 93% - 94.9% of the time.
Group 4: Severe Risk of Underachievement – Pink Group
The child attends for 90% - 92.9% of the time.
Group 5: Extreme Risk of Underachievement – Red GroupThe child attends for 0% - 89.9% of the time.
Your child will be informed of their Attendance Group by their form tutor. New Forest Academy are monitoring students closely whose attendance is falling and will contact you if your child’s attendance does not improve. As a parent/carer you are committing an offence if you fail to ensure that your child attends Academy regularly and punctually, even if they are missing School without your knowledge. It is important that parents/carers monitor single day’s absence, as these days soon add up to weeks.
At New Forest Academy we reward pupils who attend Academy each day and whose attendance is improving. Students are also rewarded for good punctuality. Rewards are given in the form of points, Certificates and prize draws.
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 email: Contact us
- A text or phone call will be made to the parent of any pupil who has not reported their child’s absence on the first day that they do not attend school. If the school is unable to make contact with the parent/carer, they may contact the pupil’s emergency contacts and/or other professionals or contacts of the family who could reasonably be expected to be able to advise of the pupil’s whereabouts.
- The staff member will encourage the attendance of any pupil that they believe should be able to attend.
- In the case of persistent absence and severe absence, arrangements will be made for parents to speak to the attendance team and/or pastoral staff. The school will inform the Local Authority (LA), on a termly basis, of the details of pupils who fail to attend regularly, or who have missed 10 school days or more without authorisation.
- Where a pupil has not returned to school for 10 days after an authorised absence, or is absent from school without authorisation for 20 consecutive school days, the school will contact the Local Authority and follow the ‘Child Missing Education’ guidance.
- Where there are concerns that the absence of a child constitutes a risk of harm, safeguarding procedures will be followed as per the Safeguarding Policy.
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.
Lift New Forest,
Long Lane,
Holbury,
Southampton,
SO45 2PA
