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MEET OUR ATTENDANCE/PUNCTUALITY TEAM
If you have any questions at all about your child’s attendance and/or punctuality, here is who you can ask:
DHJS Attendance and Punctuality Policy
DHJS Attendance Concerns Action Flow Chart
- Cynthia Fasuyi – Cynthia should be your first point of contact regarding any attendance query, and will be the person to call you to find out where your child is if you have not contacted the school by 8:45am. Cynthia will be asking questions about why your child is absent from school.
- Admin Team – these are the staff you will speak to if you phone the school about absence. You can explain to them the reasons for your child’s absence or lateness and they will note it down which is recorded within our registers. They may ask you questions to be really clear they are putting down the right thing. You will need to explain detail of any illness. Telling us your child is ‘ill’ is not enough information.
- Mrs Purcell - as the headteacher, Mrs Purcell leads on attendance. She will invite you to meetings about attendance and you could ask to speak to her if you have important information about your child’s attendance. Mrs Purcell mostly works with families where the children are persistently absent (attendance less than 90%), because this is very serious. If you want to request a holiday during term time or special leave then you must write to Mrs Purcell using our Request for Exceptional Term Time Leave Form. She is the only person who can allow families to miss any school for this reason. Please remember the policy of the school, the local authority, the Trust and the Government is to say no to holidays during term time, even if it is a day or two before the beginning and end of a term.
- Southwark Local Authority - We work very closely with the Education Inclusion Team (EIT) that sits within Family Early Help. We refer cases where pupil attendance is extremely low – less than 90%. Southwark is the organisation that works with the school to issue fixed penalty notices where they are required, and to prepare cases for court.
DHJS Attendance and Punctuality Policy
DHJS Attendance Concerns Action Flow Chart