Regular attendance is vital for your child’s education and future prospects. The law requires parents to ensure that children attend school on time every day unless they are seriously ill. We expect all pupils to achieve at least 95% attendance and we ask that parents only keep children off for the most serious reasons. We also ask that you contact the school on the first day of any absence and then confirm the reason in writing, with the dates. It is only the school that can authorise an absence, not parents. I ask that parents do not take pupils out of school for holidays in term time, and except in particular circumstances, I do NOT authorise holidays. Any request for a holiday must be made in advance on the holiday form.

Again, it is essential that parents support the school

in all these matters - if you feel that you can't, then

perhaps Wyvern isn't the school for your child.