Dear Parents and Carers,

As a leadership team, last week we sat down with your child’s class teacher to discuss the amazing progress your children have made in class so far this year and how we can ensure through the rest of the year this continues.

Every day we strive in school to ensure your child’s needs are met and they achieve the success they deserve. Talking to the teachers and analysing the information we collect, one of the biggest barriers to a child’s success at Athelney is their attendance at school, and it makes sense, if they are not here they will not be learning in line with their peers. 

Below is our first term data which has been split by attendance. As you can see in the graphs below the difference in attainment is quite stark.