Chipping Warden Primary Academy is proudly recognised as an Inclusive Attendance school. Our unwavering commitment to attendance centres around child-centric actions, evidence-informed practices, and a shared understanding of everyone's roles and collective responsibilities to promote exceptional attendance.

Our School Day

The school day begins for all pupils at 8.50am and the doors to school open at 8.45am to allow the children to get to school in plenty of time. The school day ends at 3.15pm for all classes. Children will exit the school building via the doors to the playground. This amounts to 6 hours and 25 minutes per day and 32 hours and 5 minutes per week.

Registration

Registers are taken twice a day, at 8.55am every morning and at 1:00 every afternoon. Where your child arrives after the register then they will be marked as late. The office is notified of any child’s absence after each registration and will contact parents and carers where the absence has not be reported to school. If contact cannot be made, then the school will follow their safeguarding procedures and policy which may include a home visit.

Absence

Please inform the school office as soon as possible and by 9.15 am at the latest on the first day of any absence. You will need to phone or contact the school on each day of absence explaining the reason for absence. 

Term time holidays or absences are not authorised unless there are exceptional circumstances. If you wish to remove your child from school for any reason then please contact the school office for a leave of absence form.

Illness

If your child has sickness or diarrhoea you must keep him/her at home for at least 48 hours after the symptoms have ceased. If your doctor has prescribed medicine for your child but has said that they can attend school, please bring the medicine in to the school office where you will be asked to complete the appropriate form so that the medicine can be administered.

If your child is taken ill at school, every effort will be made to contact parents or authorised contacts, it is therefore essential that contact details be kept up to date.

Details of the National Framework for Penalty Notices at Chipping Warden Primary Academy: West Northamptonshire LA process and procedures.
A new National Framework for Penalty Notices has been introduced. The regulations came into effect from the 19th of August 2024. The aim is to improve consistency in the use of penalty notices across England.
The national framework includes:

A single consistent national threshold for when a penalty notice must be considered of 10 sessions (usually equivalent to 5 school days) for any unauthorised absence within a rolling 10 school week period. The 10-week period may span different terms or school years. For example, 2 sessions of unauthorised absence in the summer term and a further 8 within the autumn term.

An increase to the rate of a penalty notice from £120 to £160 if paid within 28 days and £60 to £80 if paid within 21 days. If a second penalty notice is issued to the same parent for the same child within a rolling 3-year period, the notice will be charged at the higher rate of £160 with no option for this second offence to be discharged at the lower rate of £80.

A national limit of 2 penalty notices that can be issued to a parent for the same child within a rolling 3-year period, so at the 3rd (or subsequent) offence(s) another tool must be considered (such as prosecution or another attendance legal interventions).

From 1st April 2024, schools are now required to submit an S9 witness statement with all attendance contacts (term time absence/irregular attendance) where legal action is being considered and follow the new process.