We believe that every child has the right to an education and that attendance at school has a big impact on a child’s learning.
At Bedlinog Community Primary School, we take great pride in ensuring that attendance is maintained at a high level and that this is promoted and celebrated right across the school. While your child is with us, we will monitor their attendance very closely, in order to secure the very best education for them. We put in place interventions where attendance is dropping, but also reward pupils where attendance is excellent!
Here are just some incentives we use:
- Weekly Class Competitions:- with a special score board in the hall to show attendance and a trophy for the winning class.
- 100% Reward :- All children are given an ‘Attendance Tracker’ card which allows them to collect a sticker for every week of 100% attendance. Once children reach 10 weeks of 100% attendance they can see Mr Morgan for a special prize!
- Termly rewards:- for pupils with 97%+ attendance we have special rewards to celebrate this attendance.
We regularly check the attendance of pupils and, should any concerns arise regarding your child’s attendance, we will be in touch to try and help get your child’s attendance back on track!
More information about attendance can be found below, along with our policy for attendance.
Holidays in Term Time
As a school and governing body, we do not support parents taking holidays during term time. Missing large periods of school can impact on a child’s learning and we want to make sure that all of our pupils have the opportunity to be in school as regularly as possible. However, in line with Welsh Government guidance, parents can request up to a total of 10 days (classed as ‘20 sessions’ where a full school day is 2 sessions) of holiday leave during term time. This is at the discretion of the Headteacher and is based on an individual’s current attendance.
Where a holiday is taken in term time, and the school is informed in advance, a ‘H’ code will be recorded in our registers for your child’s absence. However, should a holiday be taken during term time, without the school being informed, or should the school be made aware that you have taken a holiday but provided a different reason for absence, then this will be classed as an unauthorised absence and may result in further action being taken.
1.Holiday Request Form
A Holiday request form must be submitted to the school via the school app. All requests must be submitted before taking the holiday and must not be via any other method of communication. These forms should be completed with as much information provided as possible. Once submitted, the school will confirm that the form has been received via the app.
2. FPN Action
When the school receives the request for Holiday in Term time your child’s rolling attendance from the last 12 months (from date of the form submission) will be reviewed. Following this the school will make the following decision:-
- If your child has good attendance (90% or above) then your holiday will be approved and no FPN issued*.
- If your child has poor attendance (below 90%) then your holiday will not be approved and an FPN will be issued for the holiday. You will be notified of this ahead of the holiday being taken.
- Should a holiday be taken during term time, without the school being informed, or should the school be made aware that you have taken a holiday but provided a different reason for absence, then this will be classed as an unauthorised absence and an FPN would be issued.
(*N.B The school will review your child’s attendance 7 days before the holiday. If, since submitting the holiday request form, your child’s attendance has fallen below 90%, the decision to not issue an FPN will be overturned and the school will notify you that attendance has fallen below the acceptable level and as a result will issue a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN).
Please note that FPNs may also be issued in situations where pupils who take multiple holiday, despite having good attendance, which impacts on their child’s learning