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At Sir Thomas Boughey we have a very good attendance rate.
We make sure that everyone knows why it is important to have a good attendance record.

This is Joe Bloggs. He is in Year 7 and has 90% attendance .
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Is that good?
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What does this mean?

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Joe’s Parents think this is pretty good.
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Are they right?

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90% attendance is the same as ½ a day absent from school every week.
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Or the same as 4 weeks absent every school year.
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Or…the same as ½ a year absent over 5 years!

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17 missed days a year = 1
GCSE grade drop
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Pass – Fail?

• The School Council came up with our own
Child Friendly
Attendance Policy.

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We have assemblies about attendance all week after every half term.
The pupils with certificate.
100% attendance get a
All the School Council members hand these certificates out on stage.
There is also a competition to see which tutor group has the best attendance and which tutor group is the most improved
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•We have an attendance display board which is changed every
Wednesday to show all the school’s attendance figures.
•Our target is to get above attendance
95 %
•At the moment we are at
95.2 % which we need to improve on

Rewards!
•We get different rewards for attendance.
•Over the half terms we get certificates.
•If anybody gets 100% attendance for a whole year then they are invited to the school’s Awards Evening and they get free tickets to a Stoke City game!
•If anybody goes through the whole 5 years at school without a day off then they get a special attendance award .