Good attendance is essential for children to make progress. Attendance supports attainment and enables your child to be confident in their learning and secure in their friendship groups. It is not fair if you do not support your child to have good attendance. Our pupils tell us that they do not like it if they arrive late to class and have missed learning.
We expect all our families to ensure their children attend school regularly and arrive on time.
We always follow up poor attendance and punctuality and we do not authorise holidays in term time.
If you are struggling to get your child to school, please contact us on 01952 387927 so we can help.
The School Day
The school day starts at 8:50am and it is important that your child arrives on time, ready to start school.
All gates open at 8.45am and will be closed at 8.55am. The children can enter the school site through the school gates – by pre-school, reception, the oak tree and the underpass. Children will be marked late if they arrive after the gates are closed. Late children can enter school through the school office.
If your child is ill, please notify the office of the reason for their absence by 8.00am by calling the school office on 01952 387927.
If you are delayed in collecting your child from school at 3:15pm, again, please call the school as soon as possible.
How you can help your child achieve good attendance
Establish a good routine in the mornings and evenings so that your child is prepared and has had a good night’s sleep.
Ensure that your child arrives on time and is not late.
Arrange dental and medical appointments outside of the school day.
Please call the school by 8:00 a.m. each day your child is absent due to illness.
Take family holidays outside of term time.
Talk to your child about school and take an interest in their school work and homework.
Praise and reward your child’s achievements at school, including good attendance.
Attend book drop-ins, parents’ evenings and school events.
Leave During Term Time
The Department for Education has renewed appeals to parents not to take their children out of school during term time. The Local Academy Committee and Headteacher at Priorslee Academy support this and children will only be given permission to take leave in term time if there are exceptional circumstances.
To request leave of absence for pupils, you can download a Leave In Term Time form (LITT) from the ‘Helpful Forms’ page of the Parents section of the website.
Helpful Forms – Priorslee Academy – Telford .
The Leave in Term Time form can also be found on the ‘Parent and Carers forms’ notice board outside the office. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs G Lough (the school attendance officer) 01952 387927 admin.priorslee@taw.org.uk
Please check the Academy’s Term Dates.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOLLOWING CHANGES TO GOVERNMENT POLICY:
From August 19th 2024, the government introduced a new ‘National Framework for Penalty Notices’. For schools in the Telford & Wrekin local authority, the changes applied from 1st September 2024.
The sample letters below (click to open) are the official letters issued to schools following the 1st of September 2013 change in legislation.
Parents will receive a refusal or (only in exceptional circumstances) a permission letter
Please see the school’s attendance policy for further details. There is also more information available on Telford and Wrekin’s website.
