This week, we are celebrating high attendance in all our Trust schools. Children's academic and personal success is built on strong attendance. Our schools are fantastic places for children to learn, succeed, achieve and thrive but children can only do that when they attend school regularly. All our Trust schools have attendance above the national average which is super to see. However, national average is merely a baseline, not a target for us. Afterall, who in life only wants to be average? 

Last week some of our nurseries achieved 100% attendance - it does not get better than that! The most important years in education are when children are aged between 0 and 5 years old as they learn all of the foundation building blocks of knowledge to underpin their entire lives. Our attendance target is 98% because we know life happens and sometimes we may all be ill sadly, but 98% attendance equates to 4 lost learning days and 28 missed lessons.  Many of our learners have achieved 98%-100% this year and the photo accompanying this week's blog shows the celebrations taking place at Healey school on Friday - with the golden tables celebrating all high attended learners. What a wonderful way to end a successful week at Healey School! 

High Attendance = High Achievement and Every Day Counts.