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ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY. Progress and achievement depends upon good attendance. The school works rigorously to ensure that high levels of attendance are maintained and an excellent standard of punctuality is modelled by all of our students. We act swiftly to identify and address unauthorised absence or low attendance and will seek an immediate resolution to this issue. The monitoring of attendance is supported by our tracker which enables every student to have an understanding of their attendance on a weekly basis. Our attendance diamond, in each classroom, is a visual reminder to students of how important it is to keep their attendance and progress at 100%. Every student should aim for 100% attendance and punctuality. Parents do have a legal responsibility to ensure their child attends school. Your child will only reach their potential if high levels of attendance are maintained. The attendance and punctuality of students is monitored daily by Form Tutors, Year Leaders, and the Attendance Team. We work closely with the Local Authority who support us if we need to issue a fixed penalty notice for students who are persistently absent from school. The Local Authority is also responsible for pursuing court action if poor attendance continues. We encourage and reward excellent attendance and punctuality with achievement points being awarded at the end of each term to students. These achievement points contribute towards whole school rewards and are regularly celebrated through our assemblies and communication with home. • Marriotts School requires daily communication to cover absence from school and late arrival. • Any requests for leave of absence should be in writing to the Headteacher. It will be the decision of the Headteacher if this constitutes exceptional circumstances. However, as a matter of policy, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ will not authorise leave of absence for holidays in term time. • Students who arrive to school after 9.00am will have an unauthorised attendance mark for the morning session, unless they can provide evidence of a medical/ dental appointment. Our school day ends at 3.00pm. We encourage you to arrange routine dentist, opticians, doctors and orthodontist appointments out of school hours or during school holidays. If your child is ill or if there is an urgent reason for non-attendance, please contact the school by 8.30am on each morning of absence on 01438 726999 (option 4 for departments in Marriotts School and then option 1). If your child needs to leave school, please inform the attendance team by emailing attendance-team@marriotts. ▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇. Students must sign out at reception as they leave school. Please refer to the School’s Attendance Information Pack, which can be found on our website, for further guidance. The School Reception is open from 7.45am until 4.30pm Monday – Thursday and from 7.45am to 4pm on Fridays. The office is manned throughout this time the reception team will be able to help you with any questions or enquiries you may have. Whilst they will always endeavour to assist you as promptly as possible and to find a quick resolution to any concerns you may have, there may be occasions when concerns will need to be passed on to a more senior member of staff and therefore take longer to resolve. In such circumstances we ask for your understanding as rude and aggressive behaviour towards the reception team will not be tolerated.

ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY. Progress The daily routine: The school will be open to students at 7.20am 7:30 am – 12:00 pm 7:30 am – 1:30 pm 7:30 am – 2:15 pm Absenteeism and achievement depends upon good attendancelateness affects students’ progress and attainment as well as the school’s ability to provide effective educational services. It also disrupts the learning experiences of other students in school. Attendance expectations for GEMS Wellington School, Qatar: Outstanding Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Unacceptable 100% >99% >98% > 96% > 94% <94% <92% School attendance has a direct link to the outcomes of your child. GEMS Policy states that Parents will ultimately make the decision whether to take out their children out of school during term time, whether this is for family reasons such as festivals, bereavement, medical care or holidays. Permission must still be signed off by the respective Head of School. Please note that the school will only authorise absences during term time in exceptional circumstances otherwise it will be recorded as UNAUTHORISED. Failure to request permission will automatically result in the absence being recorded as UNAUTHORISED on the register and on school reports. The responsibilities of GEMS Wellington School include: Sharing and implementing a school works rigorously to ensure that high levels of attendance are maintained and an excellent standard of punctuality is modelled by all of our students. We act swiftly to identify and address unauthorised absence or low policy on attendance and will seek an immediate resolution punctuality which stresses that student attendance is mandatory on all days the school is declared open. Clarifying to this issueparents and students the definition of a school day, the start of registration process in the morning, the school’s expectations in relations to punctuality all through the school day. The monitoring responsibilities of attendance is supported by our tracker which enables every student to have an understanding of their attendance the parents include: Reading, ratifying and implementing the school’s policy on a weekly basis. Our attendance diamond, in each classroom, is a visual reminder to students of how important it is to keep their attendance and progress at 100%. Every student should aim for 100% attendance and punctuality. Parents do have a legal responsibility to ensure Promoting their child attends school. Your child will only reach their potential if high levels of attendance are maintained. The child’s attendance and punctuality of students is monitored daily and abiding by Form Tutors, Year Leaders, the timings set by the school for the start and the Attendance Teamend of the school day. We work closely with the Local Authority who support us if we need to issue a fixed penalty notice for students who Ensuring all children are persistently absent from school. The Local Authority is also responsible for pursuing court action if poor attendance continues. We encourage and reward excellent attendance and punctuality with achievement points being awarded collected promptly at the end of each term the school day. Understanding and upholding the school’s policy which states that continued lateness and absenteeism will result in chances of disciplinary measures and will affect the students’ chances of enrolment for the following academic year. Late Arrivals at School: In case of repeated lateness and absenteeism the following applies: “Lateness” refers to studentsany instance where a child is late in coming to school at the start of the school day or attending lessons late within the school day. These achievement points contribute towards whole school rewards and are regularly celebrated through our assemblies and communication with home. • Marriotts School requires daily communication to cover absence from school and late arrival. • Any requests for leave First five incidents of absence should be lateness in writing a month: The class/form tutor will issue a written warning to the Headteacherstudent (Secondary) and notify parents (both Primary and Secondary). It Lateness will be noted in the decision students’ progress report. Up to an additional three (3) instances of lateness: Parents and student to be called to a meeting with the Year/Phase Leader and Class/Form tutor. Parents and student to sign a written pledge not to repeat the offence. Lateness to be noted in students’ progress report. Any additional incidents to the above: At the discretion of the Headteacher school, decision might include one or more of the following: Formal meeting with respective Head of School. Formal meeting with the Principal if this constitutes exceptional circumstancesno marked improvement. However, as a matter Detention during school break or after school hours (Secondary students). Repeated infringements of policy, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ will lateness may lead to the student not authorise leave of absence for holidays in term time. • Students who arrive being allowed to school after 9.00am will have an unauthorised attendance mark re-enrol for the morning session, unless they can provide evidence of a medical/ dental appointment. Our school day ends at 3.00pm. We encourage you to arrange routine dentist, opticians, doctors and orthodontist appointments out of school hours or during school holidays. If your child is ill or if there is an urgent reason for non-attendance, please contact the school by 8.30am on each morning of absence on 01438 726999 (option 4 for departments in Marriotts School and then option 1). If your child needs to leave school, please inform the attendance team by emailing attendance-team@marriotts. ▇▇▇▇▇next academic year.▇▇▇.▇▇. Students must sign out at reception as they leave school. Please refer to the School’s Attendance Information Pack, which can be found on our website, for further guidance. The School Reception is open from 7.45am until 4.30pm Monday – Thursday and from 7.45am to 4pm on Fridays. The office is manned throughout this time the reception team will be able to help you with any questions or enquiries you may have. Whilst they will always endeavour to assist you as promptly as possible and to find a quick resolution to any concerns you may have, there may be occasions when concerns will need to be passed on to a more senior member of staff and therefore take longer to resolve. In such circumstances we ask for your understanding as rude and aggressive behaviour towards the reception team will not be tolerated.

ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY. Progress First academic day for students Last academic day for students Term Break 1 Term Break 2 Term Break 3 12/12/2021 to 30/12/2021 27/03/2022 to 07/04/2022 Not applicable YR. 1 - 13: 07:45 A.M. TO 2:00 P.M. Students' absenteeism and achievement depends upon good attendancetardiness affect the school's ability to provide effective educational services, the achievements of consistently absent or late students and disrupt the learning experiences of other students in the school. Likewise, the attendance of teachers is imperative to securing continuous and progressive learning experiences for all students at the school. The school works rigorously will secure and improve teachers' attendance at all times and will do all that it can to ensure that students are not left without a qualified teacher for long durations of time exceeding a week. Parents, the students and the school must work together to improve and maintain high levels attendance rates. ▪ Sharing and implementing a school policy on attendance and punctuality which stresses that attendance for all students is mandatory on all the days the school is declared open. ▪ Clarifying to parents and students the definition of attendance are maintained a school day, the start of registration process in the morning, the school's expectations in relations to punctuality all through the school day, the definition of absenteeism and an excellent standard a list of punctuality what is modelled by all of our studentsconsidered excused and unexcused absenteeism. We act swiftly to identify and address unauthorised ▪ Communicating with parents when a student’s absence or low attendance lateness is causing either a Health and will seek an immediate resolution to this issue. The monitoring of attendance Safety concern or is supported by our tracker which enables every student to have an understanding of damaging their attendance academic progress ▪ Reading, ratifying and implementing the school's policy on a weekly basis. Our attendance diamond, in each classroom, is a visual reminder to students of how important it is to keep their attendance and progress at 100%. Every student should aim for 100% attendance and punctuality. Parents do have a legal responsibility to ensure ▪ Promoting their child attends school. Your child will only reach their potential if high levels of attendance are maintained. The child's attendance and punctuality of students is monitored daily and abiding by Form Tutors, Year Leaders, the timings set by the school for the start and the Attendance Team. We work closely with the Local Authority who support us if we need to issue a fixed penalty notice for students who are persistently absent from school. The Local Authority is also responsible for pursuing court action if poor attendance continues. We encourage and reward excellent attendance and punctuality with achievement points being awarded at the end of each the school day. ▪ Understanding and upholding the school's policy which states that continued tardiness and absenteeism will result in disciplinary measures and will affect the students' chances of enrolment for the upcoming academic year. Offence Frequency Implications Tardiness - this refers to being late in coming to school at the start of the school day and to instances of being late to lessons within the school day The first five(5) incidents of tardiness in a short period of time such as a month or an academic term Written warning to student and notify parents. Tardiness will be noted in the students’ progress report. These achievement points contribute towards whole school rewards Up to an additional three(3) instances of tardiness in a short period of time, such as a month Parents and are regularly celebrated through our assemblies student to be called to a meeting with the principal or a designated person by the principal. Parents and communication with homestudent to sign a written pledge not to repeat the offence. Tardiness to be noted in students’ progress report. Any additional incidents to the above At the discretion of the school, decision might include one or more of the following: • Community hours at the school. • Marriotts School requires daily communication Detention during school hours. • A written notice announcing refusal to cover re-enroll the student in the school for the following academic year. Offence Frequency Implications Absenteeism - this refers to frequent or habitual absence from school or from lessons without a valid medical or family related excuse. The four(4) incidents of absenteeism in a short period of time such as a month or an academic term Written warning to student and late arrivalnotify parents. Absent days will be noted in the students’ progress report. Up to an additional three(3) instances of absenteeism in a short period of time Parents and student to be called to a meeting with the principal or a designated person by the principal. Parents and student to sign a written pledge not to repeat the offence. Absent days to be noted in students’ progress report. Any additional incidents to the above At the discretion of the school, decision might include: • Community hours at the school. • Any requests for leave of absence should be in writing to the Headteacher. It will be the decision of the Headteacher if this constitutes exceptional circumstances. However, as a matter of policy, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ will not authorise leave of absence for holidays in term timeDetention during school hours. • Students who arrive A written notice announcing refusal to re-enroll the student in the school after 9.00am will have an unauthorised attendance mark for the morning session, unless they can provide evidence of a medical/ dental appointment. Our school day ends at 3.00pm. We encourage you to arrange routine dentist, opticians, doctors and orthodontist appointments out of school hours or during school holidays. If your child is ill or if there is an urgent reason for non-attendance, please contact the school by 8.30am on each morning of absence on 01438 726999 (option 4 for departments in Marriotts School and then option 1). If your child needs to leave school, please inform the attendance team by emailing attendance-team@marriotts. ▇▇▇▇▇following academic year.▇▇▇.▇▇. Students must sign out at reception as they leave school. Please refer to the School’s Attendance Information Pack, which can be found on our website, for further guidance. The School Reception is open from 7.45am until 4.30pm Monday – Thursday and from 7.45am to 4pm on Fridays. The office is manned throughout this time the reception team will be able to help you with any questions or enquiries you may have. Whilst they will always endeavour to assist you as promptly as possible and to find a quick resolution to any concerns you may have, there may be occasions when concerns will need to be passed on to a more senior member of staff and therefore take longer to resolve. In such circumstances we ask for your understanding as rude and aggressive behaviour towards the reception team will not be tolerated.

ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY. Progress The daily routine: The school doors will be open to students at 7.20am 7:30 am – 12:00 pm 7:30 am – 2:00 pm 7:30 am – 2:15 pm • On Thursday, Foundation Stage 1 will finish at 12:00pm, Foundation Stage 2-Year 13 will finish at 1:30pm. • Every day, secondary students should be in class from 7.30am. Arrival after 7.30am will be marked as late. • Every day, all Foundation Stage and achievement depends upon good attendancePrimary Students should be in class by 7.40pm, before the National Anthem. If they arrive after the National Anthem has started, they will be marked as late Absenteeism and lateness effects students’ progress and attainment as well as the school’s ability to provide effective educational services. It also disrupts the learning experiences of other students in school. Attendance expectations for GEMS Wellington School, Qatar: Outstanding Above Expected Minimum Expected Below Expected Serious Concern 98% - 100% 96% - 98% 95% and Above Less than 95% Below 90% School attendance has a direct link to the outcomes of your child. GEMS Policy states that Parents will ultimately make the decision whether to take out their children out of school during term time, whether this is for family reasons such as festivals, bereavement, medical care or holidays. Permission must still be signed off by the respective Head of School. Please note that the school will only authorise absences during term time in exceptional circumstances otherwise it will be recorded as UNAUTHORISED. Failure to request permission will automatically result in the absence being recorded as UNAUTHORISED on the register and on school reports. The responsibilities of GEMS Wellington School include: Sharing and implementing a school works rigorously to ensure that high levels of attendance are maintained and an excellent standard of punctuality is modelled by all of our students. We act swiftly to identify and address unauthorised absence or low policy on attendance and will seek an immediate resolution punctuality which stresses that student attendance is mandatory on all days the school is declared open. Clarifying to this issueparents and students the definition of a school day, the start of registration process in the morning, the school’s expectations in relations to punctuality all through the school day. The monitoring responsibilities of attendance is supported by our tracker which enables every student to have an understanding of their attendance the parents include: Reading, ratifying and implementing the school’s policy on a weekly basis. Our attendance diamond, in each classroom, is a visual reminder to students of how important it is to keep their attendance and progress at 100%. Every student should aim for 100% attendance and punctuality. Parents do have a legal responsibility to ensure Promoting their child attends school. Your child will only reach their potential if high levels of attendance are maintained. The child’s attendance and punctuality of students is monitored daily and abiding by Form Tutors, Year Leaders, the timings set by the school for the start and the Attendance Teamend of the school day. We work closely with the Local Authority who support us if we need to issue a fixed penalty notice for students who Ensuring all children are persistently absent from school. The Local Authority is also responsible for pursuing court action if poor attendance continues. We encourage and reward excellent attendance and punctuality with achievement points being awarded collected promptly at the end of each term the school day. Understanding and upholding the school’s policy which states that continued lateness and absenteeism will result in chances of disciplinary measures and will affect the students’ chances of enrolment for the following academic year. Late Arrivals at School: In case of repeated lateness and absenteeism the following applies: “Lateness” refers to studentsany instance where a child is late in coming to school at the start of the school day or attending lessons late within the school day. These achievement points contribute towards whole school rewards and are regularly celebrated through our assemblies and communication with home. • Marriotts School requires daily communication to cover absence from school and late arrival. • Any requests for leave First five incidents of absence should be lateness in writing a term: The class/form tutor will issue a written warning to the Headteacherstudent (Secondary) and notify parents (both Primary and Secondary). It Lateness will be noted in the decision students’ progress report. Up to an additional three (3) instances of lateness: Parents and student to be called to a meeting with the Year/Phase Leader and Class/Form tutor. Parents and student to sign a written agreement not to ensure there is significant improvement Lateness to be noted in students’ progress report. Any additional incidents to the above: At the discretion of the Headteacher school, decisions might include one or more of the following: Formal meeting with respective Head of School or Vice Principal Formal meeting with the Principal if this constitutes exceptional circumstancesno marked improvement. However, as a matter Detention during school break or after school hours (Secondary students) Repeated infringements of policy, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ will lateness may lead to the student not authorise leave of absence for holidays in term time. • Students who arrive being allowed to school after 9.00am will have an unauthorised attendance mark re-enrol for the morning session, unless they can provide evidence of a medical/ dental appointment. Our school day ends at 3.00pm. We encourage you to arrange routine dentist, opticians, doctors and orthodontist appointments out of school hours or during school holidays. If your child is ill or if there is an urgent reason for non-attendance, please contact the school by 8.30am on each morning of absence on 01438 726999 (option 4 for departments in Marriotts School and then option 1). If your child needs to leave school, please inform the attendance team by emailing attendance-team@marriotts. ▇▇▇▇▇next academic year.▇▇▇.▇▇. Students must sign out at reception as they leave school. Please refer to the School’s Attendance Information Pack, which can be found on our website, for further guidance. The School Reception is open from 7.45am until 4.30pm Monday – Thursday and from 7.45am to 4pm on Fridays. The office is manned throughout this time the reception team will be able to help you with any questions or enquiries you may have. Whilst they will always endeavour to assist you as promptly as possible and to find a quick resolution to any concerns you may have, there may be occasions when concerns will need to be passed on to a more senior member of staff and therefore take longer to resolve. In such circumstances we ask for your understanding as rude and aggressive behaviour towards the reception team will not be tolerated.