{"id":533,"date":"2022-11-17T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T11:41:40","slug":"attendance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/parents-carers\/attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Lumphinnans Primary School we have a strong approach to promoting positive relationships and behaviour and ensuring all children are included, engaged and involved in their education. We know that lower levels of attendance can have a negative impact on a child\u2019s attainment, peer relationships, participation and ultimately future opportunities. It is essential, therefore, that we work closely with our school community to promote and ensure good attendance.<\/p>\n<p>School staff will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep a register of attendance of each child enrolled at school, through recording attendance twice a day.<\/li>\n<li>Take action to confirm that a child is safe if they are identified as having not arrived at school. If a parent cannot be reached, emergency contact details will be used.<\/li>\n<li>Review\u00a0attendance termly to identify children causing concern due to patterns of non-attendance.<\/li>\n<li>Identify reasons for non-attendance and to take appropriate action to resolve any concerns. This will involve discussion, in some cases oral and written, with parents.<\/li>\n<li>Support children and families using staged intervention approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Parents\/carers have a key role to play in promoting good attendance. We ask parents\/carers to inform the school by phone, log absence on parents portal or email lumphinnansps.enquiries@fife.gov.uk if their child is going to be absent. Attendance can be affected by many factors and we ask families to work in equal partnership to support good attendance at school.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst we understand you may wish to take your child on holiday during term-time, it is only under exceptional circumstances that schools can authorise this. In line with local authority guidance, therefore, holidays during term-time must be marked as unauthorised<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" width=\"474\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/sway.office.com\/s\/3ATCAP3B3J7Bloiy\/embed\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen ><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Lumphinnans Primary School we have a strong approach to promoting positive relationships and behaviour and ensuring all children are included, engaged and involved in their education. We know that lower levels of attendance can have a negative impact on a child\u2019s attainment, peer relationships, participation and ultimately future opportunities. It is essential, therefore, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/parents-carers\/attendance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attendance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21270,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}