The School Day

The school gates open at 8.35am with register taken at 8.40am promptly. The school day ends at 3.10pm. This is a total of 32 hours and 30 minutes per week.

Attendance

We expect every child to attend school every day, and be punctual every day. Our Attendance Policy can be found below.

Any planned absence from school must be requested in advance and we expect such requests to be for exceptional circumstances only. Absence request forms are available from the school office and must be completed in full and returned for the attention of the Headteacher. Please note that holidays are not authorised during term time under any circumstances.

For information about school attendance from the Department of Education, please click here and for information from Oxfordshire County Council, please click here. We expect routine medical appointments, including dental, to be taken outside of the school day.

All planned absences from school must be requested in advance. Click below for an absence request form.

​Illness

If you decide your child is too ill to attend school, please report this via MCAS by 9.00am. If a child is not at school, and their absence has not been reported via MCAS, the school office will contact you by 9.15am asking you to confirm where your child is.

As a guide, the NHS has information around 'Is my child too ill for school?'. Click here for more information.

If your child has a temperature, and you are controlling the temperature with medication (e.g. Calpol), please keep them at home until the temperature has gone completely and does not require medication.

If your child becomes ill at school, we will contact you to arrange collection.

For Public Health England information regarding infectious diseases in school and when children must be kept off school, including the sickness or diarrhoea 48 hour rule, click here.