Our attendance team comprises the following members: Attendance and Family Welfare Officer Ms Razwana Iqbal, the Office Manager Ms Farida Mayat, the Headteacher Ms Sukwinder Samra and the leadership team.
We have a supportive attendance policy in place which we encourage parents and families to read. The attendance policy outlines how we work as a school to ensure all children have excellent attendance and punctuality. We passionately believe that every pupil has access to an excellent standard of full-time education to which they are entitled to every day. We feel that through attending school can significantly improve the life chances of all our children.
Our attendance policy meets the requirements of the school attendance documents from the Department for Education.
We will support parents to perform their legal duty to ensure their children of compulsory school age attend regularly. It is a schools’ responsibility to record attendance and follow up on absence. The school does have the right to issue sanctions, including fixed penalty notices, in line with local authority's code of conduct; these were reinstated and are being enforced.
Where there are patterns of very poor attendance, unrelated to long-term medical concerns then the Headteacher may conduct a New Vision Attendance Panel with the family and consider use of Fixed Penalty Notices for absence and other sanctions if support is not successful, or not engaged with. The headteacher will make the final decision on setting penalty notices before it goes to the borough team to issue.
