Attendance
We are grateful for the support we receive from parents and good attendance will ensure that your child can reach their full potential. To achieve this, your child needs to attend school every day.
Attendance Team
Mr Martin - Attendance Lead
Mrs James - Support officer
Mrs Thompson - Support officer
How to report an absence
Parents can use our attendance email address if their child is going to be absent from school or for any other attendance matter.
The email address is info@brindleyacademy.com
Parents can still continue to telephone the school and leave a message if they prefer by calling 01384872343
If your child does not attend school and we have not received an explanation, a member of the team will phone home to make some enquiries. If we are unable to establish response or contact after a number of consecutive days and all emergency numbers have been contacted, we may make a home visit as a matter of safeguarding.
Monitoring and early identification are essential in addressing poor school attendance. At Foley we use standard letters that inform parents of their child’s current attendance. The team meet fortnightly to review attendance and letters are issued at set times during each school term.
It can be tricky deciding whether or not to keep your child off school, nursery or playgroup when they're unwell.
But there are government guidelines for schools and nurseries that say when children should be kept off school and when they shouldn't.
If you do keep your child at home, please contact us as soon as possible on the first day of absence and every day thereafter until your child is well enough to return to school, either by sending us an email to info@brindleyacademy.com telephoning into school on 01384872343 and speaking to a member of the office team or leaving a message before 9.00am.
Let us know that your child won't be in school and give us the reason. If your child is well enough to go to school but has an infection that could be passed on, such as a cold sore or head lice, please let their teacher know.
Is my child too ill for school?
Safeguarding
It is important we know children and their parents are safe and well. In the past where schools have not chased up the reasons as to why children are off school, it has then transpired that there have been tragic circumstances around these absences, eg illness of a parent and a child unable to seek help.
No response or clear reason for absence can lead to schools safeguarding procedures where we will contact all emergency numbers, undertake a home visit and if no contact is made we may contact the Police and Children’s Services.