Why Attendance Matters
We want all children to enjoy coming to our school so they can learn and achieve their potential, both academically and socially. We believe that education helps to give children choices and opportunities, and to maximise these chances, they need to come into school regularly.

Our school is a sociable space where children learn to develop relationships with their peers and the adults around them. They learn to be with people who are different to them and to appreciate the diversity that this presents. They learn to disagree well, forgive each other, enjoy each other’s company, and have fun. We know that children learn best when they are happy and have friends.

Our school is a  safe place, where a child’s welfare is a key priority. They learn to be independent from their families and to feel safe as they do this. They learn to trust people beyond their families and to develop healthy relationships with other children and the protective adults around them. We know that children learn best when they feel safe.

Our school is a  place of learning; from the youngest learners, just starting on their academic journey, to our Year 6 pupils preparing to move onto secondary education. At each step of this journey, there will be vital learning building blocks that are added to the ones that came before, and that add to a complete picture, for a learner, over time. Sometimes these blocks are repeated, but often, they are not. We know that children learn best when they have the right building blocks.

In our school and trust, attendance is everyone’s business. With this combined attention to support our pupils and families, we believe that pupils will attend more regularly, benefitting from all that education has to offer.

And so, coming to school each day matters. It matters to a child’s development, both socially and academically, and over time, it matters to their life chances.