--- title: "School Attendance" url: "https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/school-attendance" school: "Waterside Primary School" --- # School Attendance **Attendance** Waterside Primary School seeks to ensure that all its pupils receive a full-time education which maximises opportunities for each pupil to realise his/her true potential. The school will strive to provide a welcoming, caring environment, whereby each member of the school community feels wanted and secure. All school staff will work with pupils and their families to ensure each pupil attends school regularly and punctually. The school will establish an effective system of incentives and rewards that acknowledges the efforts of pupils to improve their attendance and timekeeping and will challenge the behaviour of those pupils and parents who give low priority to attendance and punctuality. To meet these objectives Waterside Primary School will establish an effective and efficient system of communication with pupils, parents and appropriate agencies to provide mutual information, advice and support. **Punctuality** Pupils can come into school from 8.50 am and the school day starts promptly at 9.00 a.m. If a child arrives at school after 9.00 a.m. without prior arrangements having been agreed, he/she will be deemed late. Registers close at 9.10 a.m. Pupils arriving at school after 9.00 a.m. must enter through the main gates and report to the school office to be signed in by an adult. Pupils leaving school for any reason must report to the office before they go so that we can ensure that they are appropriately chaperoned and signed out. Registers are also taken when the children return to classes after lunch. Unexplained absences will be investigated by the attendance officer. - Our Attendance - Attendance Documents We want our children at Waterside Primary School to enjoy coming to school, and we have worked in partnership with parents and external agencies to improve out whole school attendance since the Pandemic. We are highly ambitous and strive for every child to be in school every day. | **%** | **All (excluding under 5’s)** | **Disadv** | **Non-Disadv** | **SEN K** | **EHCP** | **PA** | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | **2024-2025** | 94.5% | 93.6% | 95% | 92.5% | 84.3% | 10.5% | # ### Attendance Documents Attendance Policy 26-27 1.48 MB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/waterside-primary-school/files/documents/Waterside_Primary_School_Attendance_Policy_2026_-_27.pdf) Waterside Attendance Procedures 415 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/waterside-primary-school/files/documents/Attendance_Procedures.pdf) ### Key Information - [Admissions](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/admissions) - [Uniform](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/uniform) - [Term Dates](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/termdates) - [Policies and Practice](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/policies-and-practice) - [School Achievements and Results](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/school-achievements-and-results) - [School Attendance](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/school-attendance) - [Accessibility](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/accessibility) - [Equality Objectives](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/equality-objectives) - [Pupil Premium](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/pupil-premium) - [Sports Premium](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/sports-premium) - [Remote Education](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/remote-education) - [Ofsted and External Reviews](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/key-information/ofsted-reports) [Embedded content](https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2400.0541310576964!2d-2.170451783858812!3d53.01938987991181!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x487a69d4086c0711%3A0x19262908cd9219d0!2sWaterside%20Primary%20School!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1670583840226!5m2!1sen!2suk) ![Waterside Primary School](https://files.schudio.com/waterside-primary-school/images/logo/waterside-logo-2-footer.png) **Waterside Primary School** Eastwood Road Stoke on Trent ST1 3JS Tel: 01782 234630 Email: [![Shaw Education Trust](https://files.schudio.com/shaw-education-trust-2/images/logo/set-misc/footer-logo-v1.png)](https://shaw-education.org.uk) **Shaw Education Trust** Kidsgrove Secondary School Gloucester Road Kidsgrove ST7 4DL VAT: GB 358822467 Tel: 01782 948259 Email: Company Number: 09067175 ### Newsletter ### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/people/Waterside-Primary/61559202505677/) - [X](https://twitter.com/watersidestoke) © Copyright 2022–2026 Waterside Primary School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://waterside-primary-school.schudio.com/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)