Absence

Reporting an absence from school

  • Parents/carers must report their child’s absence from school by 08.30am for each day of absence.

The King’s Academy Brune Park Attendance Team is:

  • Mrs Ware
  • Mrs Dorey
  • Mrs Hancock
  • Miss Bright
  • Home School Link Worker – Mrs Ringland

To report an absence please call the school on 02392 616000 and press Option 1.
Alternatively, you can email the attendance team on attendance@kgabrunepark.uk

Did you know?

For a child to reach their full educational achievement a high level of school attendance is essential.

At Brune Park, we want each child to have every opportunity to achieve their full potential; we stress the importance of excellent attendance and punctuality at all times, and have very high expectations for excellent attendance and punctuality.

Promoting Good Attendance

Tutors and the Year Offices support students to achieve excellent attendance, and consistently monitor students’ attendance and punctuality. If attendance falls below the expected levels, a variety of colleagues, including the attendance team, will work with the young person and their family.

A range of strategies are deployed to support improvements in attendance and include:

  • In-school support
  • Home visits
  • In-school attendance panel
  • Legal interventions (as outlined in Hampshire County Council’s code of conduct.)

If you need support or advice with attendance, please contact your child’s Tutor or the attendance team.

To help parents make judgements about absence due please use the relevant NHS guidance.

Working Together to improve school attendance

Being in school and having the best attendance possible underpins all the many benefits of school for your child, such as their learning, wellbeing and wider development.

We understand that for some children, attending school every day will be harder than for others.

As a parent, you are legally responsible for making sure your child gets a suitable full-time education, usually from the ages of 5-16

Please see the link below on how school and home need to work together to ensure excellent attendance.

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/back-into-school/resources-for-families

Attendance Documents

Studybugs

We’re pleased to announce that Brune Park is introducing a new, more efficient and secure system for reporting your child’s absence due to illness, called Studybugs.

If you haven’t already, please get the free Studybugs app, or register on the Studybugs website, and use it to tell us whenever your child’s ill and unable to attend school.

Get the app or register now (https://studybugs.com/about/parents)

Thank you,

King’s Academy Brune Park

Top 3 reasons to use Studybugs

  1. It’s integrated with our systems so we know right away if your child is unaccounted for.
  2. It’s quick and easy to register and use and automatically reminds you to keep us posted.
  3. You’ll be helping the NHS and other public health organisations improve children’s health. (https://studybugs.com/about/schools)