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Attendance
At Plume, Maldon's Community Academy, we believe in maximising school attendance for all and supporting families to enable our students to maximise their attendance. Through a proactive, holistic approach we will always do our utmost to support students in attending the academy.
Attendance is of paramount importance to our students’ successes at Plume and in their education. By triangulating support between the academy, students and their parents/carers we can foster and create a successful foundation to building sustained resilience in our students. As an academy, our target attendance figure is 95% and through our Maximising School Attendance Team we will continue to strive to maximise attendance to 95%+.
Maximising School Attendance Team at Plume, Maldon's Community Academy
To oversee attendance at Plume Academy line managing all areas of attendance and ensuring the academy remain compliant with the Department for Education's policies and guidance.
Mr Stoneman
Deputy Headteacher, Designated Safeguarding Lead and Academy Attendance Champion
To be the lead attendance figure for our Key Stage 5 students supporting with communications and monitoring, supporting and maximising students attendance across Plume College.
To lead on attendance for all students at Fambridge Road Campus supporting with communications and monitoring, supporting and maximising students attendance across Years 9-11.
To lead on attendance for all students at Mill Road Campus supporting with communications and monitoring, supporting and maximising students attendance across Years 7 and 8.
To support students who may be struggling to consistently attend the academy, and with medical evidence will be supported by the local authority and academy via an Education Access Referral.
To complete regular home visits to parents and carers addresses, to ensure that families are supported in a bespoke manner, to encourage and ensure that students continue to improve their attendance.
Academy Protocols for reporting Absence
To ensure the correct process is followed please can we ask that on each day of absence by 8.45am:
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A call to 01621 854681
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Choose Option 1 - 'student absence'
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Then:
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Option 1 for Years 7 and 8
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Option 2 for Years 9 - 11
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Alternatively, please email the dedicated Attendance email address attendance@plume.essex.sch.uk which is monitored by both campus Attendance Offices. This can also be used to share medical appointment cards or letters and medical evidence, such as prescriptions and medication packaging.
If you feel you need additional pastoral support or there is a particular barrier to any students attendance of their usual academy provision then please also contact their respective Assistant Head of Year or Head of Year to ensure that we look to continue to maximise all students attendance.
Please note, we support students returning to the academy 24 hours after the last occasion of illness.
