Attendance and Medical Appointments
If your child is absent from school please report this using the Studybugs app giving a reason for your child's absence .It is our policy to contact parents on the first morning of any unexplained absence if we have not received a message from you by 9.30am.
A prompt start to the school day helps us to establish good routines and make full use of time. Please help us by making sure that your child comes to school on time. The school doors open at 8.50am and registers are marked as soon as the children arrive, teachers complete their registers before 9.00. If your child arrives after 9.00 please bring them in through the main entrance to the school office and sign in the late book.
Please ensure medical appointments are made out of school hours if possible. Advance notice of appointments your child may need to attend during the school day must be given to the office and a copy of the appointment letter. Children leaving school early for appointments must be signed out by the adult collecting them and signed back in on their return.
Leave of absence for exceptional circumstances
As parents, you have a legal responsibility to ensure your child’s attendance at school. Suring the academic year, pupils are at school for 190 days and at home for 175 days.
Please be aware that The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013, state that Headteachers may not grant any leave of absence during term time unless there are exceptional circumstances. The Headteacher is also required to determine the number of school days a child can be away from school if leave is granted.
Please complete and submit the leave of absence form, located at the bottom of this page, if you want the Headteacher to consider your request for your child’s leave of absence for exceptional circumstances. We may ask for proof to validate your request.
Unauthorised absence of 5 days or more will result in the following action being taken:
1. If you have not incurred a penalty notice relating to this child/children since 19 August 20224 then the penalty notice will be charged at a rate of £160.00, per parent/carer per child, if paid within 28 days. This will be reduced to £80.00 if paid within 21 days of receipt of the notice. Failure to pay the Penalty Notice will result in Surrey County Council considering legal proceedings against you in the Magistrates Court.
2. If you have incurred a penalty notice relating to this child/children since 19 August 2024, the rolling 3 year period will be activated from the date of the first penalty notice and the second penalty notice will be charged at the flat rate of £160.00, per parent/carer per child, if paid within 28 days. There will be no reduction for payment with 21 days. Failure to pay the Penalty Notice will result in Surrey County Council considering legal proceedings against you in the Magistrates Court.
3. If you have incurred 2 penalty notices relating to this child/children in the rolling 3 year period since the first penalty notice was issued, then you will NOT receive a 3rd penalty notice – Surrey County Council will have no option but to consider a prosecution, per parent/carer per child in the Magistrates Court under 444 Education Act 1996
The Headteacher will consider the reasons for the request carefully and notify you of the decision. In the absence of a decision parents/carers cannot assume that permission for absence has been given. For further information, please refer to our School Attendance Policy, located under our school policies page.
Application for leave of absence for exceptional circumstances
