Attendance
Attendance
At Brookside Academy, we believe that attendance is fundamentally an inclusion issue. Children can only fully benefit from the opportunities, relationships and learning that school provides when they are present and able to participate.
Our attendance approach is underpinned by a vision for:
High Expectations, Relational Approaches - Every Child Achieving Their Best Attendance.
We recognise that attendance difficulties are often complex and may be linked to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), medical needs, anxiety, emotional wellbeing, family circumstances or other barriers beyond a child's immediate control. Rather than viewing attendance solely through a compliance lens, we seek to understand the individual circumstances of each child and family and work collaboratively to find solutions.
We maintain high expectations for attendance because regular school attendance is one of the strongest predictors of positive educational outcomes, wellbeing and future life chances. However, we also recognise that children and families may require different levels of support in order to achieve success. Our approach therefore balances ambition with understanding, ensuring that support is tailored to identified need.
Through strong relationships with families, early intervention, personalised support, reasonable adjustments where appropriate and close partnership working with external agencies, we strive to remove barriers that prevent children from attending school regularly. We believe that attendance improves when children feel safe, valued, understood and successful within their school community.
Success is not measured simply by comparison with others, but by supporting every child to achieve their own best attendance. By working together with families, staff and external professionals, we aim to ensure that every child is able to access the full benefits of education, develop a sense of belonging and thrive both academically and personally.
As part of our commitment to improving attainment of our pupils, we monitor attendance on a regular basis and identify any pupil whose attendance causes concern. Children are required to maintain and attendance of 96% and above, for those children who fall below this level we are required to start to the Academy monitoring attendance procedure, detailed below.
Daily Attendance and Absence Procedures
Our morning register is taken at 8:50am and will be kept open until 9:10am. A pupil who arrives late after 9:05am but before 9:24am will be marked as late (L code).
A pupil who arrives after 9:25am will be marked as unauthorised.
Please see our Attendance Policy HERE