Please be reminded that school attendance is mandatory. It is vital that children are in school, for their educational progress, for their wellbeing, and for their wider development. We continue to work closely with parents to help us to achieve this.
At South Farnborough Infant School we work hard to:
Ensure every pupil has access to the full-time education to which they are entitled
Promote good attendance and reduce absence, including persistent absence
Act early to address patterns of absence
Support parents to perform their legal duty to ensure their children of compulsory school age attend regularly, and will promote and support punctuality in attending lessons.
Please ensure that any holidays are booked during the school holiday period. Holidays during term time will not be authorised.
Parents/guardians must ask permission, where the situation is exceptional or urgent, for their child to be absent during term time. Headteachers are only empowered to approve a leave of absence when it is requested in advance by the parent or carer with whom the child resides and when the circumstances of the requested leave are ‘exceptional’. If no application is made or leave is taken without permission and there are no exceptional circumstances, a term time holiday is contrary to s.444(1) of the Education Act 1996 and Fixed Penalty Notice can be issued accordingly. Parents wishing to apply for their child to have leave from school should complete the form below before the proposed leave.
Parents are asked to please telephone school before 8:50 a.m. to inform us when a child is absent from school due to ill health. If we do not receive a telephone call by 9:00am. the office staff will call to check why your child is not in school. Although we appreciate that children can be poorly, if your child’s attendance falls below 90% we are required to ask parents/ carers for medical evidence to authorise absences due to illness.
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Refer to the guidance:
In cases of exceptional circumstances leave may be applied for by completing a form that is available from the school office. Alternatively, please download the one below and hand to the school office.