Absence Percentage Emails will be generated today. If your child’s attendance has fallen below 96% you will receive an email, regardless of whether the absences are authorised or not.
Please do not respond to the email, if you wish to discuss please call or email the school mailbox.
WCBC Absence Guide
Green | 100% | Not missed any lessons. |
99% | Missing about 10 lessons. | |
98% | Missing about 20 lessons. | |
97% | Missing about 30 lessons. | |
Amber | 96% | Missing about 8 days of school. It will be difficult to catch up on the lost learning from about 40 lessons. |
95% | Missing about 2 weeks of school. | |
93% | Missing 14 days of school. This is almost three weeks, which is a significant amount of education to lose. | |
Red | 92% and below | Missing more than 3 weeks of education. A serious loss of learning which is likely to have a detrimental effect on achievement and life chances. |