St Wilfrid's Catholic School

At St Wilfrid’s, attendance really does matter!

Please click here to see our latest Attendance Matters report and click here to see our latest Attendance Rank.

Our students value their school and enjoy coming here. The results of this can be seen in our ever increasing improvement in attendance. As was communicated to you by Mr Morris in a recent newsletter, our attendance figures for 2010/11 were the best ever.

We use the term “Every Day Counts” and this is why…

80-90% IS GOOD IN ANY TEST BUT DO YOU KNOW THAT
90% ATTENDANCE = ½ DAY MISSED EVERY WEEK

And

80% ATTENDANCE = 1 DAY MISSED EVERY WEEK

1 school year at 90% attendance = 4 whole weeks of lessons MISSED

1 school year at 80% attendance = 8 whole weeks of lessons MISSED

90% attendance over 5 years of secondary school = ½ a school year missed!

80% attendance over 5 years of secondary school = 1 whole school year missed!
 
17 missed school days (91% attendance) a year = 1 GCSE grade DROPPED
(Figures based on DCFS research)

The simple message is the BETTER the attendance the GREATER the achievement.

One of our recent developments in focusing on Attendance and its importance is the development of our attendance competition.  At the end of each Week B we analyse the attendance per tutor group in each year and House points are awarded.  From that data we identify our “Top 5” across all year groups in the attendance league who receive extra points.