Attendance

Belmont Juniors opens at 8.55am for and classes end at 3.30pm for KS1.  Children are at school for 32.5 hours a week.

Good school attendance improves your child’s chance of achieving their full potential. Children who attend school regularly are more likely to achieve at school and reach their full potential. Missing school disrupts school routines and learning. 

The most common reason given for children to miss school is illness, however most of the time childhood ailments can be managed in school. 

Reducing absence is a key priority. We work closely with families to ensure children are  in school when they can be and that holidays are not taken in term time as this can not be an authorised absence.

We aim that all children are at school for at least 95% of the time.

Attendance in numbers

The law entitles every child of compulsory school age to an efficient, full-time education suitable to their age, aptitude, and any special educational need they may have. It is the legal responsibility of every parent to make sure their child receives that education either by attendance at a school or by education otherwise than at a school.

Where parents decide to have their child registered at school, they have an additional legal duty to ensure their child attends that school regularly. This means their child must attend every day that the school is open, except in a small number of allowable circumstances such as being too ill to attend or being given permission for an absence in advance from the school.

This is essential for pupils to get the most out of their school experience, including their attainment, wellbeing, and wider life chances. The pupils with the highest attainment at the end of key stage 2 and key stage 4 have higher rates of attendance over the key stage compared to those with the lowest attainment. At KS2, pupils not meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths had an overall absence rate of 4.7%, compared to 3.5% among those meeting the expected standard. Moreover, the overall absence rate of pupils not meeting the expected standard was higher than among those meeting the higher standard (4.7% compared to 2.7%)