Attendance and Safeguarding at English Martyrs

Attendance and Safeguarding both have great importance at English Martyrs. We want to keep your children safe in school and to do this we look at safeguarding along with attendance. These are monitored on a regular basis in line with guidence from working together to improve school attendance. 

Working together to improve school attendance - GOV.UK

• The law states a leave of absence may only be granted by a school if an application is made in advance and if it considers there are exceptional circumstances relating to the application.

Any absences, including medical appointments should be taken out of school time where possible. If this is not the case, then a leave of absence request form must be completed in advance of the absence. We must see a copy of the appointment made for the child’s absence. The leave of absence form can be downloaded from the absence reporting page of the website.