Merton Bank Primary School

Attendance

Every moment matters at Merton Bank Primary School.

There is clear evidence that good attendance is linked with academic success, improved social skills and overall well-being.

When a child misses school, it not only impacts their learning and skills development but also affects the rest of the class. Teachers strive to keep the class progressing while addressing gaps for absent pupils, all within limited curriculum time. Frequent absences can also lead to anxiety, as children may lose confidence in a subject due to falling behind.

At Merton Bank Primary School, we are closely monitoring attendance and will communicate with you regularly to keep you informed. We seek your support to help instill resilience and determination in your child, ensuring they succeed both academically and holistically while enjoying their time at school.

We are committed to supporting you in overcoming any barriers to attendance.

Attendance is key to academic success and social development.

Please aim for your child to be in school EVERY day!

We expect all our children to achieve at least a 96% attendance percentage each year. However, we know that there can sometimes be exceptional reasons why children cannot attend school, such as illness.

At Merton Bank Primary School, we support our families to achieve this target of 96%. We know that sometimes, absence is unavoidable however this should be minimal. As a school we will support families however we will not tolerate poor attendance. We aim to act at the earliest point to ensure that when attendance dips, we listen, support, understand and set targets, to get children back into school.

When children are absent from school they miss out on their education, they miss time to build and develop friendships, they miss fun, memorable, life changing experiences.

At Merton Bank Primary School, we strive for an excellent education for all. To support this, we encourage the highest possible levels of attendance and punctuality. By seeing our children every day and providing them with an educationally safe and secure environment, we can support their learning, and enable them to achieve their potential. Through good attendance, we believe that we can promote the development of the whole child. We work with our families to encourage children to attend school every day, and on time, so that they can flourish and achieve highly.

Being in school is important to every child’s achievement, well being, and wider personal development. We believe that attendance is everybody's responsibility. Staff, parents, carers, pupils and all members of each school’s community have an important contribution in improving attendance and punctuality, ensuring pupils attend so they can achieve the very best they can.

We thank you for your ongoing support to secure the highest levels of attendance at Merton Bank Primary School.

We run a Breakfast Club every morning for all children in Reception to Year 6. Our Breakfast Club can support good attendance at school.

To find out more please go to our 'Breakfast Club' page.

Attendance Ladders

Our attendance ladders below show the percentages of attendance and what that means in terms of number of missed days of learning. Our target is for all children to be above 96%.

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