Good attendance is crucial to a child's success. We ask parents to take an active interest in attendance and encourage their child to aim for a 100% attendance record. To this end we expect parents and pupils to attend routine dental and medical appointments out of school hours or in holiday time.
We also ask parents to inform us of holiday plans which fall during term-time and to strictly limit these absences in the interests of their child's education. By law, school permission is required before holiday absence is taken and the school must consider whether permission should be given. Avoidable absences are always to be discouraged.