Attendance Expectations at UCC

From the first day of term to the last, the small moments in a school day can make a real difference to your child.

Uppingham Community College has high expectations of student attendance.

We believe encouraging school attendance is one of the most powerful ways you can prepare your child for success, both in school and in life.

Making school attendance and punctuality a priority helps your child to maximise their potential, develop important social skills and avoid dangerous behaviour.

At Uppingham Community College, we understand that improving attendance is everyone’s responsibility:

It is a parent/carer's responsibility to ensure that their child attends college regularly and on time. Whilst we appreciate that sometimes absence is unavoidable due to illness, medical appointments or leave taken during term time, it will still impact your child’s attendance and, in turn, their attainment. It is proven that good attainment is connected to good attendance and missing crucial time at college could have an impact on any exams or qualifications that your child may be taking.

Remember that one day’s absence is 5 lessons missed, one week’s absence is 25 lessons missed.

This is valuable learning time that cannot be given back. Your child misses out every time they are absent from college, so consider this and make medical or dental appointments outside of college hours when possible.

If your child is having difficulties attending school, please contact your child’s Progress Leader as soon as possible, as most issues can be dealt with very quickly.

Year 7 - Mrs Brown – brown_s@ucc.rutland.sch.uk

Year 8 – Mr Sievewright – sievewright_d@ucc.rutland.sch.uk

Year 9 – Mr Harding – harding_k@ucc.rutland.sch.uk

Year 10 – Mrs Cummings – cummings_l@ucc.rutland.sch.uk

Year 11 – Ms Achard – achard_a@ucc.rutland.sch.uk

We wish to work in partnership with parents/carers and so are seeking your full support in ensuring that your child attends school every day and on time. We are always pleased to work together to resolve any difficulties, and we are committed to improving attendance levels.