St Peter’s C of E Primary Academy Mansfield are committed to providing a comprehensive and proficient education for all pupils. The school sincerely believes that all pupils benefit from the education it provides and therefore from regular school attendance. To this end, the school will do as much as it can to ensure that all pupils achieve maximum possible attendance and that any issues, which may impede full attendance, are acted upon as quickly as possible.

We believe good attendance is when children attend at least 97% of the school year.  This equates to attending at least 185 of the 190 days when school is open to pupils.  This is only 5 days off for the full academic year.

If your child needs to miss any school time, a leave of absence request form needs to be completed as soon as possible. Schools can only grant leave of absence as:

• Taking part in a regulated performance;
• A temporary, time-limited part-time timetable;
• Exceptional circumstances like a medical appointment which cannot be taken out of school hours. 

The DfE does not consider holidays to be an exceptional circumstance. 

The doors for our F1 unit open at 8:30am.

Children in all other year groups should arrive at school between 8:40am.  The registers are opened at 8:45am and close at 8:50am, so any child arriving after that point will be marked as late.

A text message will be sent if your child has not arrived by 9am, which will be followed by phone call if we have not received a message by 9:30am.

A member of staff will visit the family home if no contact can be made as soon as reasonably possible.