The school’s strategies to encourage pupils to come to school regularly have led to a remarkable improvement in attendance, which demonstrates just how much pupils enjoy St Peter’s.
OFSTED – 2017
At St Peter’s RC High School, we expect every student to attend school every day, on time. Our attendance expectation is 97% or above.
Strong attendance gives students the best chance to:
We work closely with families to promote excellent attendance and to support students when barriers arise.
– Salford Diocese
We expect all students to achieve 97% attendance or better across the school year.
Attendance below this level can quickly affect learning, progress, and wellbeing. Even a small drop in attendance can mean missed lessons, gaps in understanding, and a more difficult return to routine.
All absences must be reported before 8:45am on each day of absence.
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Where possible, routine medical and dental appointments should be arranged outside school hours.
If an appointment must take place during the school day, please:
Students should attend school unless they are genuinely too unwell to do so.
In many cases, children can still come to school with minor ailments such as:
Please keep your child at home if they have:
Missing school means missing learning.
When attendance drops, students can:
Good attendance supports both achievement and wellbeing. Our aim is for every student to be in school, on time, and ready to learn every day.
The Department for Education (DfE) suggests:
Pupils with 95–100% attendance are around 2x more likely to achieve strong GCSEs (grade 5+ in English & Maths) than those with poor attendance.
Being late to school disrupts learning and affects the start of the day.
Students should arrive by 8:35am each morning, ready for registration and lessons. Students that arrive after 8:45am will be placed in a lunchtime detention, unless there is a valid reason
Repeated lateness will be monitored and may lead to contact home, support, or further action where needed.
We understand that some students face genuine barriers to attendance. When this happens, we want families to contact us early so we can help.
Support may include:
Key contacts:
Attendance Lead
Mr Stenson
Head of Year
Leave of absence during term time will only be authorised in exceptional circumstances.
Family holidays should not be taken during term time.
Any request for leave must be made in advance using the school’s leave of absence form.
We monitor attendance carefully and will contact families where attendance falls below expectation.
Depending on the level of concern, this may include:
Our approach is to work with families early, clearly, and supportively.
The best outcomes happen when school and home work in partnership.
You can help by:
Our message is simple: 97% attendance or better gives every child the best chance to thrive.
We value the links we have established with our partner primary schools, 6th form colleges, higher education institutions and numerous business organisations.
If you would like to make a quick enquiry, please use our general enquiry form. We will contact you as soon as possible.
We are proud of the many prestigious awards we have received from a range of organisations/institutions…These awards are recognition of the hard work and achievements of our whole school community.
