Attendance

Every Day Counts at Manor Primary School

At Manor Primary, we want every child to be proud, ambitious, and reach their full potential. Excellent attendance is key to your child's learning, confidence, and friendships.

By law, parents are responsible for ensuring their children attend school regularly once registered. Missing school regularly can lead to formal support procedures, penalty notices, or prosecution.

Working Together to Support You We monitor attendance closely and work alongside the Local Authority Attendance Team. If your child’s attendance falls, we are here to help—not to judge. If you are invited to an Attendance Panel meeting, consider it a positive opportunity for us to work as a team to remove barriers and support your child. We can only help if we know, so please talk to us!

What 90% Attendance Really Means 90% sounds high, but over time it adds up quickly:

• ½ day missed every week

• Nearly 4 weeks of lost learning every school year

• Over 1 full school year missed across a school career

Our school goal is for every child to achieve 100% attendance.

When Your Child Is Unwell If your child is fit to learn, please bring them to school. If you are unsure whether they are well enough, contact our school office for advice.

Reporting an Absence: Please notify us on the first day of your child's absence:

• ClassDojo: Message Miss Sumner

• Email: schooloffice@manor.wirral.sch.uk

• Phone: 0151 677 3152

Learning at Home During Absence If your child is missing school and you want to keep their learning going, try these quick activities:

• Read stories together and practice rhymes or songs

• Log into Times Tables Rockstars or Numbots

• Practice doubling, halving, and times tables

• Check your child’s class page on our website for current work and home-learning ideas

If my child is ill, how long must they stay off school?

Fixed Penalties for Absence and Lateness

Regular and punctual attendance of pupils at school is both a legal requirement and essential for pupils to maximise their potential.  Parents are responsible for ensuring that their child of compulsory school age receives efficient education that is suitable to the child’s age, ability, aptitude and to any special educational needs the child may have at school or otherwise.

An offence occurs if a parent or carer fails to secure a child’s regular attendance at a school at which they are a registered pupil and when that absence is not authorised by the school and does not meet one of the statutory defences.  Penalty Notices are one of a number of legal sanctions available to deal with these offences.

Circumstances When Fixed Penalty Notices Will Be Issued:

There is now a single consistent national threshold for when a penalty notice must be considered by all schools in England,

• 10 sessions (usually equivalent to 5 school days) of unauthorised absence within a rolling 10 school week period.

The 10 sessions of absence do not have to be consecutive and can be made up of a combination of any type of unauthorised absence (G, O and/or U coded within the school’s registers). The 10 school week period can span different terms, school years or education settings.

Sanctions may include issuing each parent (for each child) with a Penalty Notice for £160, reduced to £80 if paid within 21 days (for the first offence).

A second Penalty Notice issued within a three year period will result in a fine of £160 per parent, per child. If a third offence is committed the matter may be referred to the local authority for consideration of prosecution via the Magistrates Court.

If prosecution is instigated for irregular school attendance, each parent may receive a fine of up to £2500 and/or up to 3 months in prison. If a parent is found guilty in court, they will receive a criminal conviction.

To avoid this process,  Mrs Lightwing will write to you informing you of your child's attendance and possibly schedule a meeting to discuss the matter in an attempt to resolve any issues.