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Attendance
Attendance Procedure
Where dentist and doctors appointments unavoidably fall within the Academy day, please ensure that your son/daughter is provided with a parental note on or before the date of the appointment. The relevant Head of Year /Assistant Head of Year should also be informed. A permission note will be issued to your son/daughter to leave his/her lesson at the appropriate time. Your son/daughter will leave their lesson and report to Reception where a slip will be issued to your son/daughter as evidence of leaving the Academy site.
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Parent/carers are required to collect their son/daughter from Reception, if necessary. If parent/carers are not able to collect their son/daughter, the Academy should be informed of the alternative arrangements.
Attendance Notice
Our target is 100% attendance for all of our students; this is vital for every student to achieve their full potential. Under the Education Act (1996) Parents/Carers are required to ensure that their child attends the Academy regularly.
If your son/daughter is ill or their absence is unavoidable, we ask that you contact the Academy between 8am and 9am on the first morning of your son/daughter’s absence.
Attendance can be contacted by telephone on 01482 349600, option 1 or 01482 349602.
If Parent/Carers do not contact the Academy to notify us of an absence, a visit from the Home Liaison Officer may be arranged to help us to gather information regarding the reason for the absence.
We expect Parents/Carers not to arrange holidays during term time. All requests for holidays during term time will be refused and the matter referred to the Education Welfare Service.
If Parents/Carers consider that there may be exceptional circumstances for any holiday, then requests and the reasons for the absence must be put in writing to the Academy prior to the holiday.
At Sirius Academy North we reward excellent attendance and punctuality and students who achieve 100% attendance are entered into a weekly and an end of term prize draw. A variety of other attendance competitions will take place throughout the academic year.
