Thorney Close Primary SchoolWeekly Attendance
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Friday 27 June 2025 Attendance 27.6.25 Well done, Cedar Class, for achieving an impressive 98.5% attendance this week! Keep up the great work!
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Friday 20 June 2025 Attendance 20.6.25 Unfortunately, we're disappointed with our overall school attendance figure this week, as it falls below our expected standard. However, well done to Spruce and Hazel classes, who met or exceeded our 96% target—great effort!
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Friday 23 May 2025 Attendance 23.5.25 This week, attendance across most of the school has been excellent, with many classes exceeding our target of 96%. This is a fantastic achievement for the final week of the half term.
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Friday 16 May 2025 Attendance 16.5.25 Attendance has been really good this week — well done to the Year 6 classes for achieving 100%! There’s just one more week to go before the half-term break, so let’s make it another fabulous week!
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Friday 2 May 2025 Attendance 2.5.25 A huge well done to Mrs Hownam's Hazel class for achieving 100% attendance this week!
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Friday 4 April 2025 Attendance 4.4.25 The picture displays this week's attendance, which has unfortunately declined compared to last week. With just one more week remaining before the Easter break, it would be wonderful if we could reach 96% attendance for the week.
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Friday 28 March 2025 Attendance 28.3.25 The picture displays this week's school attendance. With two full weeks left before the Easter break, we hope to achieve attendance above 96% in both weeks to help boost our overall attendance for the school year.
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Friday 7 March 2025 Attendance 7.3.25 It’s been a great first week back for attendance, with many classes very close to 100%!
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Friday 21 February 2025 Attendance 21.2.25 Our attendance for this week was 95%, with some excellent individual class attendance. A special mention goes to our youngest children in school - Seedlings Class (2 year old provision), who had only one absence this week—their best attendance week ever! Well done, Seedlings!
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Friday 7 February 2025 Attendance Superstars A wonderful trip to Herrington Country Park with a group of attendance superstars who have not missed a single day of school this academic year.
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Friday 31 January 2025 Punctuality
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Friday 31 January 2025 Attendance 31.1.25
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Friday 17 January 2025 Attendance 17.1.25 Individual class attendance has been much better this week. Well done to Hazel Class for getting 100% attendance – a fantastic achievement!
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Friday 22 November 2024 Attendance 26.11.24
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Friday 15 November 2024 Attendance 15.11.24 Our school attendance has improved this week compared to last. We aim to achieve over 96% attendance next week!
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Friday 8 November 2024 Attendance 8.11.24 Here is the attendance for this week at school. Although the overall attendance was low at 91.7%, we are happy to share that some individual classes have achieved their highest attendance so far this academic year.
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Friday 11 October 2024 Attendance 11.10.24
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Friday 20 September 2024 Attendance School attendance this week has fallen to 93.5%. Unfortunately, the first fixed penalty notice letters have been issued in accordance with City of Sunderland guidelines. This follows a national directive, which does not permit holidays during term time. Please also note that accumulating five days of unauthorised absences, even if spread over several weeks, within a 10-week period will also lead to a fixed penalty notice. For more information about school attendance, please click on the links below.
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Monday 3 June 2024 Attendance Fines Unauthorised absence from school – important update about fines.
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Tuesday 23 April 2024 Be in to Win! We are trying to improve attendance rates over summer term by organising 2 Attendance Prize Draws. One will be drawn for May half term and one for July end of year.
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Thursday 23 March 2023 Fantastic Red Group Attendance The children in red group are really proud of themselves! They've all been to school everyday for the last three days. They've set themselves the challenge of making it to 4 days!
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Monday 10 October 2022 Attendance Matters A big thank you to the vast majority of parents who make sure their children attend school regularly and on time! There is a proven link between excellent attendance and good exam success and equally a correlation between poor attendance and lower exam grades.This year the Department for Education is tackling attendance head on, in order to ensure that children do not lose any more time from school following the pandemic. Schools across the country have been given very specific direction to improve attendance rates to at least 97% and lower the rates of persistent absenteeism. Sunderland City Council have issued newly updated letters which we will send out accordingly in line with all other schools.This academic year Thorney Close Primary school is going full steam ahead to work with parents and pupils to ensure we meet the DfE expectation of 97% or above for overall attendance and reduce absenteeism to below pre pandemic data.However, we cannot do this alone, we need the support from
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Friday 10 June 2022 Weekly Attendance Celebration Well done to all the children attending school this week! Our whole school attendance this week was 91.9%
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Friday 20 May 2022 Weekly Attendance Celebration Well done to all the children attending school this week! Our whole school attendance this week was 91% The class with the best attendance was Year 2 - Sycamore Class 97.9%
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