Attendance matters
At St Peter’s, we believe that regular attendance is essential to helping every child flourish, achieve their potential and let their light shine. Good attendance gives children the opportunity to learn, develop friendships, build confidence and take part fully in the life of our school. This reflects our Christian values of love, hope, trust, thankfulness and respect, as we work together to ensure that every child is supported to attend school regularly and enjoy their education. We recognise that there can be genuine barriers to attendance, and we work closely with children and their parents and carers to understand individual circumstances and provide early, supportive and appropriate help wherever possible. Our approach is one of partnership: we celebrate good attendance, identify concerns quickly and work with families to remove barriers, while also being clear about the importance of meeting attendance expectations. Every day matters, every child matters, and every child deserves the opportunity to learn, grow and shine.
Mr Harding (Headteacher) is the School Attendance Champion and monitors attendance regularly, encouraging good attendance and working with families to support children whose attendance becomes a cause for concern. If you are struggling to bring your child to school. please speak to someone in school - we are here to help!
Poor attendance is classed as under 90%.
Average attendance is under 96% but over 90%
Good attendance is over 96%.
Remember: 90% is a good score for a test, but a poor score for attendance!
Our attendance for academic year 2025-2026 was 96% - above the national average of 93%. Well done everyone!
St. Peter's attendance strategy 2026-27
spsd attendance strategy 26 27.pdf
Forward as One attendance strategy
At Forward As One it is our ambition to have every child in school every day and therefore a robust and effective attendance strategy is implemented in every school.
Attendance is everybody’s responsibility and Forward As One’s school senior leaderships teams strive to build a culture where all staff are clear on their roles and responsibilities and therefore can be held to account. To enable all staff to fulfil their role, clear systems and procedures are implemented and are understood by all and applied consistently.
Forward As One’s approach focuses on preventative measures and swift intervention. This allows leaders to plan for contextual challenges, alongside educating parents on the impact of absence from school both academically and socially.
The key principle underpinning the approach of early intervention is to develop partnerships with parents to understand the barriers and work with families to remove them.
