Education Welfare Service, Promoting Good School Attendance

• Make sure your child goes to school regularly, arrives on time and knows the school rules. Start this habit at an early age when your child is at primary school.
  
  
• If your child is ill contact the school on the first day of absence. Teachers will be worried if they hear nothing.
  
  
• Please send a note when your child returns to school.
  
  
• If your child is unhappy at school … for whatever reason, please let the school know what the problem is so it can be sorted out early.

• Take your child on holiday during term time. This can unsettle or disrupt learning particularly for young people taking exams or tests.
  
  
• Keep your child at home to look after family members or to work.
  
  
• Bottle thin gs up if you have any worries or troubles. Tell the school or the EWO ‘a trouble shared is a trouble halved’.