Is Your Child Missing Out? Focus on Attendance and Punctuality
Research has shown that regular attendance and good punctuality are crucial factors in students achieving their full potential in education. At Redbridge Community School we wish to work in partnership with parents and carers and so are seeking your full support in ensuring that your child attends the School every day and on time. We are always pleased to work together with parents/carers in resolving any difficulties but we are also committed to improving attendance levels at the School.
The target attendance figure for all pupils is a minimum of 97% attendance. Based on current attendance figures your child will be placed in one of the following groups below.
Group 1: No Concern
– Green Group
The child attends for 97% – 100% of the time.
Group 2: Concern
– Yellow Group
The child attends for 95% – 96.9% of the time.
Group 3: Risk of Underachievement
– Amber Group
The child attends for 93% – 94.9% of the time.
Group 4: Severe Risk of Underachievement
– Pink Group
The child attends for 90% – 92.9% of the time.
Group 5: Extreme Risk of Underachievement
– Red Group
The child attends for 0% – 89.9% of the time.

- Ensure your child attends every day, on time, equipped and ready to learn. The school day begins at 8.30am and students should be in the building by 8.25am. Students arriving after 9am may be marked absent and will require an explanatory note or the absence will remain un-authorised.
- Ensure the School has up-to-date addresses and telephone numbers. We will contact you if your child is absent and you have not contacted the School. This ensures that the absence is quickly identified.
- If your child is ill, contact the School on the first day of absence and provide an explanatory note on their return to the School.
- If you wish to check that your child has arrived at the School contact the School Attendance Officer, Wendy Proud, who can inform you if your child has been registered.
- If no contact is received regarding the absence, it is recorded as un-authorised. Ultimately the School is responsible for deciding if the absence is acceptable or not. Only genuine absence will be authorised. You will be asked to provide medical certificates if your child has a poor attendance record.
- Ensure that medical appointments are made outside of the School time.
- Avoid trivial absences such as, ‘buying new shoes’. This would not be accepted as a reasonable absence. Holidays should not be taken in the School time. Any Leave of Absence can only be agreed by the Head Teacher and only agreed where there are exceptional circumstances.
- Respond to letters or telephone calls regarding attendance and punctuality.
- Contact your child’s form tutor if you are experiencing difficulty in getting your child into the School.