{"id":6789,"date":"2024-06-10T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:34:59","slug":"attendance-and-why-missing-school-is-missing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/2024\/06\/10\/attendance-and-why-missing-school-is-missing-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance and why missing school is missing out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest single thing parents and carers can do to improve a pupil&#8217;s attainment is to make sure that they have excellent attendance.\u00a0 Spoiler alert, you cannot have excellent attendance if you take term time holidays or regularly have days off such as a Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Why is attendance at school so important?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having excellent attendance at school is key to your child having the best opportunity to learn, and therefore the best start in life.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some great reminders of why it\u2019s important for our children to attend school:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To learn<\/li>\n<li>To meet friends and socialise<\/li>\n<li>To build and develop social skills<\/li>\n<li>To understand responsibility<\/li>\n<li>To develop a healthy work ethic<\/li>\n<li>To be active<\/li>\n<li>To gain new experiences in life<\/li>\n<li>To develop new life skills \u2013 useful for life in the workplace, as well as at home and in the community<\/li>\n<li>To develop a wider sense of self<\/li>\n<li>To encounter and learn about different beliefs \/ religions \/ cultures<\/li>\n<li>To grow as individuals into mature young adults<\/li>\n<li>To gain qualifications in preparation for moving onto a positive destination<\/li>\n<li>To achieve their full potential<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have put together an information sheet on why everyday counts and why missing school is missing out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/files\/2024\/06\/Attendance-Support-document-for-parents-June-2024.pdf\">Attendance Support document for parents June 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest single thing parents and carers can do to improve a pupil&#8217;s attainment is to make sure that they have excellent attendance.\u00a0 Spoiler alert, you cannot have excellent attendance if you take term time holidays or regularly have days off such as a Friday. Why is attendance at school so important? Having excellent attendance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/2024\/06\/10\/attendance-and-why-missing-school-is-missing-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attendance and why missing school is missing out.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-from-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}