Post 16 Attendance

Attendance is a high priority at Kingsthorpe College as we firmly believe that excellent attendance underpins student progress and achievement. We challenge all of our students to achieve above the College target of 96%, and we assume parental support in maintaining these high standards. We work closely with support services and, where necessary, the statutory services of Educational Entitlement in order to support any student in need.

It is important to note that over the past 3 years we have seen an increase in the amount of students taking time out of school for holidays during term time. We implore you to take your holidays out of term time, which would therefore have no impact on student’s education. We also ask you to think very carefully about allowing your young person to have the odd day off. It will impact upon their subject knowledge and they may fall behind their peers and struggle to catch up.

We understand and appreciate that there are occasions where illness or family crisis will impact on a student’s attendance, and we will work closely with families to minimise disruption to learning. In cases of student absence, we ask that parents complete and submit a College request for student absence form, where advance warning can be given. We also ask that student absence is reported on the morning of absence by contacting our student absence line, which can be reached on the College contact number, 01604 716106 or emailing Attendance.Team@Kingsthorpecollege.org.uk