Attendance

Three Peaks Primary Academy – Attendance Record (Updated: 06/12/2024)	Percentage
Previous Week’s Attendance	94.2%
Whole School Attendance Academic Year to Date	94.0%

Our Senior Attendance Champion is Melissa Stone

If you wish to contact Miss Stone please email: enquiries@threepeaksacademy.org.uk or call 01827 896424.

The importance of regular school attendance

Regular attendance at school is vital to help children achieve and get the best possible start in life.

have good, long-lasting friendships;
keep up with their work;
understand lessons better;
achieve better results.

Children with unsatisfactory attendance, under 95%, are more likely to:

find it difficult to maintain friendships;
find it difficult to understand lessons;
not to achieve the expected standard.

One days absence every two weeks would result in an attendance rate of 90% across the school year.

17 days missed in a school year would result in an absence rate of 91% and 34 days would result in an absence rate of 82.1%

Holidays

No holidays will be authorised during term time.

A 2 week holiday means that the highest attendance rate they can achieve is 94.1% which is lower that the target rate of 96%+.

Punctuality

It is vital that children arrive at school on time. We open our doors at 8:45am and close them at 9:00am. We start Reflect and Recall at 8:45am, which allows teachers extra time to work 1:1 and in small groups with children on specific areas of need or areas for development.

Children who are late to school, often :

miss introductions to work, news and specific information about things happening in school;
distract other learners;
take up more of the teacher’s teaching time.

Children who are 15mins late for school everyday miss the equivalent of 9 whole school days , 18 learning sessions.

Impact of Arriving Late

Minutes late	Equivalent days lost
5 minutes a day	3 days
10 minutes a day	6 days
15 minutes a day	9 days
20 minutes a day	12 days
30 minutes a day	18 days
60 minutes a day	36 days

Your responsibilities as a parent

All children aged between 5 and 16 are required by law to receive an education, and it is the duty of parents and carers to ensure that they are supported to do so.

Children sometimes have to miss school because of illness or if they have long term medical issues. If this is the case, parents should contact school the same day to let them know the reason that their child is not in school.