Students with high attendance make better progress academically and socially and at BCHS excellent attendance is celebrated.
Parents play a vital role in encouraging positive attitudes and we ask for their support to ensure that children arrive on time and don’t miss school unless absolutely necessary.
The more time a student spends in school, the better they do in their exams. Our goal is for every student to have a minimum yearly attendance of 96% but to aim for 100%. Those with 100% attendance are regularly rewarded through end of term trips, sweet treats, certificates and other incentives. We also recognise significant improvements in attendance and celebrate those with rewards too.
We expect all students to arrive by 8:30am for registration. School is open from 8:00am when all students can get a free breakfast in our school canteen. Students who arrive in school after 8:33am will receive a detention at the end of the school day, unless they have an acceptable reason for being late. After 8:40am students must enter school via the main reception. Any student arriving after 9:15am without an acceptable reason will be marked as unauthorised late; this counts as an absence for the morning session.
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