Attendance
Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
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Regular attendance is vital for your child’s success, helping them to achieve their best and develop important life skills.
At Lift Unity City excellent attendance and punctuality is our aim for every student. Full attendance maximises learning opportunities and parents/carers have a vital role in promoting good attitudes in attendance. We ask for support from parents/carers to ensure that their children are present at every opportunity, arrive on time and to avoid allowing children to stay at home unnecessarily, or taking them out of school without authorisation.
Evidence shows that students who attend school regularly make better progress both academically and socially than those that don’t. We monitor student’s attendance closely and will follow up unexplained absence with parents/carers, by telephone or by home visit. Where a student’s attendance record reaches a concerning level, we will contact you to discuss ways in which the Academy can support you and your child.
Our school attendance target of 100% is our aim for all students with 96% the minimum that we expect. Every lesson counts and it is this commitment to learning that will have a positive effect on student’s examinations and their future prospects in education, employment and training.
As part of our drive to improve attendance across the whole school, we have attendance events which help to focus the students and improve individual attendance. The red, orange, yellow and green groups, are being mentored by a senior members of staff. Purple and blue groups are rewarded for their attendance and we celebrate with afternoon tea in the restaurant.
Outstanding attendance is celebrated in assemblies and those students achieving 100% attendance receive a badge for the lapel of their blazer. 100% for 1 term ‘Bronze Badge’, 100% for 2 terms ‘Silver Badge’ and 100% for an Academic year ‘Gold Badge’.
If your child is too ill to attend the school, parents/carers should contact the school Attendance Office by 8:15am on
T:01642 326262 and leave a message and give the following information:
Child’s name, year group and the reason for the absence and how long you expect the absence to last.
We ask that you contact us each day that your child is absent unless you have given us update of your child’s illness.
Contact the school to report the absence and provide the reason and expected return date.
Keep the school informed of your child’s progress and update the expected return date where possible. Absences can be reported by phone or via the school’s dedicated absence email: Contact us
Morning registration takes place at 08:30am. Students arriving after 9am will receive an unauthorised late code, which will affect their attendance record
Parents and carers are legally responsible for ensuring their child attends school regularly and punctually. Failure to do so could result in legal action by the local authority.
Under the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 2006, only the school can authorise an absence – not parents or carers.
Time off for holidays during term time is not a legal right. Any request for a leave of absence must be made in advance by completing an absence form and submitting it to the school office. If a holiday is taken without permission, the absence will be recorded as ‘unauthorised’ and could result in legal action.
You can read the government advice here:
https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence
Regular school attendance is essential because:
If you need to request a leave of absence during term time, you must complete a leave of absence form and return it to the school office. Please note that email requests cannot be accepted.
Lift Unity City
Ormesby Road
Middlesbrough
Cleveland, TS3 8RE
