Why it's important for children to attend school?
It's important children attend school because:
Good attendance
Although an exam mark of 90% is very good, when looking at school attendance 90% equates to half a day absence per week. This in turn equates to 4 weeks absence in an academic year. If a child persistently had 90% attendance over the course of their education they would have been absent for a whole year of their education.
The school target for attendance is 95% for the school year.
Last year the school attendance was only 91%.
That equates to approximately 9,725 days of lost learning across the school.
This averages as 36 days of lost learning per child or 7 weeks of lost learning per child.
Attendance Stars
This year we will be handing out Class Attendance Stars for each week.
If a class has an attendance rate of 99%-95% the class will get a 50p star.
If a class has an attendance rate of 100%, the class will get a £10 star.
Money is accumulated through the year by the class to fund a special end of school year party for their class. The more money they accumulate, the more they can have at their party.
Attendance Stars for:
Week of 5th September: Cardiff- 96%, London - 96.7 % and Cambridge Class- 100%!!!!!