Dear Parent/Guardian,

We have decided to install an automatic communication system that will contact you directly if your child is marked absent at registration. This will ensure that the reason for the absence is known as soon as possible and alert you if your child is not in school when they should be. Post-registration absences can also be detected and reported to you.

In addition this will be used to contact you to up date you with events in school and to notify you quickly should the occasion arise to do so.

You will have already supplied school with contact telephone numbers when your child started at the school but you may prefer to update these and where applicable include mobile and work numbers.

If your home, mobile or works telephone number has changed recently please provide your new numbers including area code. You may also supply an e-mail address for us to contact you on. Please note, these numbers should be contact numbers for parents, step-parents, and foster parents only. We do not require your emergency telephone numbers.
(Download the form  Truancy Call Letter )

Your child will be automatically included on the system, however, should you prefer not to be notified that your child is absent from school please call me on the above number to discuss this further.

By introducing these services, our school is able to reassure you that we are meeting the Governments recommendations in contacting you on the first day of your child's absence. It will also provide an early warning system should your child go missing from school. As always your child's safety is our main concern.

Yours sincerely,

J Henderson

Mr J Henderson
Deputy Head