Pre-5 Attendance Support Procedures

Supporting Good Attendance

At Brambles, our first step in supporting attendance is to have regular contact with parents/carers on the school gates and playground at the start and end of every day and with phone calls and home visits. We keep parents/carers up to date with their child’s attendance through half termly text messages. We encourage good attendance with the children through rewards and recognition; every class take part in our weekly attendance competition and prises in assembly. We also recognise individual pupil effort for 100% attendance with entry into a half termly draw for toy shop vouchers. At the start of each academic year, we ask parents/carers to sign a Good Attendance Home School Agreement (link below).

The overarching approach to attendance at Brambles is through our Attendance Graduated Responses. We regularly review the attendance of all children of compulsory school age (5-15 years) using our School Age Attendance Graduated Response in order to ensure they are attending as fully as possible. Our Attendance Graduated Response is based on the previous half term’s absence with consideration of pastoral needs and significant medical factors.

Pre-5 Attendance Graduated Response

When children are considered compulsory school age

A child of compulsory school age at the beginning of the 1^st term after their 5^th birthday, so:

• Children who turn 5 between 1^st January and 31^st Match will be of compulsory school age at the beginning of the school term after 31^st March;
• Children who turn 5 between 1^st April and 31^st August will be of compulsory school age at the beginning of the school term after 31^st August;
• Children who turn 5 between 1^st September and 31^st December will be of compulsory school age at the beginning of the school term after 31^st December;

If parents/carers have any questions about attendance or would like support with their child’s good attendance, please speak to your child’s class teacher, Miss Beever (Assistant Head Teacher and Attendance Lead) or Mrs Gill (Pastoral Lead).