Attendance
Hull Trinity House has excellent standards of attendance. Regular attendance is important and absence should be restricted to the unavoidable. It is a legal requirement that schools keep accurate records of student attendance.
Except for illness, no student should be absent from school without the permission of the Principal in advance. Parents are requested not to arrange family holidays or outings in term time; such absences are undesirable because they severely disrupt the student’s programme of learning and assessment.
Absence due to illness
On the first day of absence you are requested to telephone the school on 01482 326421 or via the My Child at School app with an explanation of your child’s illness and when they are likely to return. If the absence affects subsequent days, we would be grateful if you could ring on each day of absence or contact the Attendance Officer or Year Leader for your child’s year group to confirm this.
Please note, home visits and telephone calls home are conducted if your child is absent for 2 days or more.
Advance permission for medical appointments should be communicated to the Attendance Officer or the relevant Learning Manager using the Report an Absence button on the school telephone system.
Leave of Absence Request
Hull Trinity House will not grant permission for leave of absence for holidays during term time
Amendments to The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006 made in 2013 removed references to family holiday and extended leave as well as the statutory threshold of ten school days. The amendments make clear that headteachers may not grant any leave of absence during term time unless there are exceptional circumstances.
All requests for absence must be made in advance in writing, please see the information provided below.
Please state clearly the dates of the intended absence together with the number of school days that will be affected. Any leave of absence cannot be authorised retrospectively.
Authorised and unauthorised absence
The law requires that all schools must show the difference between authorised and unauthorised absence.
Examples of absence which would be authorised by the school are:
- Sickness
- Medical or dental appointments which cannot be arranged outside school hours
- Days of religious observance
- Exceptional circumstances such as bereavement
Examples of absence which we would regard as unauthorised are:
- Truancy
- Staying at home to look after younger children or sick relatives
- Birthdays
- Resting after a late night
- Relatives visiting or visiting relatives
- Attending concerts or having days out to attend local events
- Any absence about which the school has not been informed by letter and approved
Lateness
Students, who arrive late after 8.25 a.m. will report to Student Reception, who will record the late arrival. Please note detentions are given to those students who are late for the next available date shown in their planner.
Where students are persistently late appropriate action will be taken and parents informed. Attendance and punctuality information is recorded on reports.
