Parents have a legal responsibility to ensure that their child is not late for school. This can be extremely disruptive to a child’s daily routine; this also means that they miss a considerable amount of valuable learning time.

Minutes late per day	Equivalent of missing
5 Minutes	3.4 school days a year
10 Minutes	6.9 school days a year
15 Minutes	10.3 school days a year
20 Minutes	13.8 school days a year
30 Minutes	20.7 school days a year

Should your child arrive late, it is important that they enter the school via our Main Reception to be signed in.

If your child is late due to attending an appointment, we ask for medical evidence provided to support this. 

If you child arrives after 9.00 a.m., without a satisfactory reason, they will not receive a present mark for the morning.  Instead it will be U coded (Late after register closes).

The attendance team regularly monitors children’s punctuality and if a child is identified as being persistently late, parents and carers will be invited in for a meeting to discuss this and a target will be set to reduce lateness.