Attendance

Absence  

If your child is not going to attend school parents/carers must: - 

1. Telephone school (0161 681 3321/1055) or email attendance@newmoston.manchester.sch.uk before 9.30am on the first day of your child's absence to let us know why your child is not in school and when you expect that they will return.
2. If your child has an appointment please send evidence of this to the email address or show the appointment card to the office before the appointment. If possible appointments should be booked for out of school hours.
3. If your child is going to be absent for more than one day please keep in contact with school, letting us know when you expect your child will be ready to return. 
4. If we have not heard from you by 9.30am you will recieve a text asking you to contact school to explain your child's absence. If we have not heard from you by 10.30am we will phone and/or email. We will repeat this on the second day of absence. If we have not heard from you by midday on the third day of unexplained absence, we will complete a home visit. If we are still unable to make contact with anyone - including your emergency contacts - we will contact the police and ask them to make a safe and well check. We might also contact Children's Services for further advice. 

All absences must be recorded by school every day.  There are different records as follows : - 

• Authorised absence - where a satisfactory explanation for the pupil's absence has been given, for example - illness, medical appointments (where evidence is shown), exceptional circumstances such as family bereavement when permission has been given by the Head Teacher.
•  Unauthorised absence - where no satisfactory explanation has been given for a child's absence, for example - no contact made or reason given, staying off school due to someone else's illness, a pupil or family members birthday, "we slept in" - arriving at school after registers close will be recorded as an unauthorised absence.  

Fixed Penalty Notices 

Where a pupil records 10 sessions of unauthorised absence (5 days) school will issue an Attendance Warning Letter to each parent/carer.  If any further unauthorised absences are recorded then a request may be made to the Local Authority to issue a Fixed Penalty Notice Fine.  

The Local Authority fine for a Fixed Penalty Notice is £120 per parent, per child.  This is reduced to £60 if paid within 21 days.

Further information on all of this information can be found in our attendance policy and/or parent leaflet, which is linked below.  Guidance from the Local authority is also referenced below. 

 Start and finish times for all classes with effect from 19th April 2022 are as follows, please be punctual.

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• Here 
• Everyday 
• Ready  and 
• On time