Attend Today, Achieve Tomorrow
At Dinnington High School, excellent attendance and punctuality are our aims for every child. We set an attendance target of 97% as the minimum that we expect for all students.
Children who attend school regularly make better progress academically and socially. To help a child achieve full attendance, parents and carers play an important role in helping us promote good attitudes towards attendance and punctuality.
Together, it is important we ensure that children are present at every opportunity, arriving on time, and not taken out of the academy without authorisation. A child’s attendance is monitored closely by the Attendance team, and we will follow up unexplained absences with parents or carers.
Where a child’s attendance record reaches a concerning level or when there are unexplained absences, we will contact the child’s parents or carers to discuss ways in which we can support to help improve the child’s attendance.
Reporting Absence
If a child is too ill to attend school, it is important that the child’s parents or carers contact us as soon as possible.
We ask you contact us each day that your child is absent.
What the Academy expects of parents/carers:
Parents/Carers are legally responsible for making sure their children attend school on time and every day, dressed in full uniform and equipped to learn.
To fulfil this responsibility, we expect Parents/Carers to:
· Promote 97-100% attendance and punctuality with their child.
· Ensure their child arrives at the Academy no later than 08:20am. This means students should arrive to tutor time no later than 08:25am.
· Inform the Academy, of any reason that will prevent their child/children attending:
o Telephone communication:01909 550066 (ext 408/418)
o E-mail using the attendance email: attendance@din.leap-mat.org.uk
· Ensure that Parents/Carers contact the Academy before 08:15am on the day of the child’s absence with a valid reason for absence.
· Contact the Academy whenever any problem occurs that may keep their child away from the Academy.
· Inform the Academy of any forthcoming appointments with evidence of the appointment, and, where possible, arrange appointments outside of the Academy day.
Appointments
We ask that any appointments should not be made during school time. We understand that this is not always possible and ask on these occasions the Attendance team are informed well in advance by using the contact details above and providing evidence.
Attendance Calculator
There are 190 school days in 2023-24. Input the number of days you or your child has been absent in the Days Absent box to work out their attendance percentage.
This will then be shown as a percentage in the Projected Attendance (%) box.
Hopefully, this calculator will give you or your child an indicator of how days off can impact their personal attendance figures.
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| Projected Attendance | 100.00% Perfect! |
