Reporting Lateness or Absence

If your child is not going to be in school, please call the office on 01299 851256 or email the school office: office-cgr@riverscofe.co.uk to report their absence. Please do this before 9:00 am on the first day of the absence.

If your child has sickness and diarrhoea and you are abiding by the 48-hour rule, we will be aware.

Unexplained Absences

If we have not heard from you by 9:30 am, then we will start to call all the contact numbers that you have provided in order to gain an explanation for the absence. If we still have not been able to ascertain where your child is, then we will make a home visit. However, if we still haven’t been able to get a response, then we will report it to the police, as your child will then be classed as a ‘missing child’.

To ensure we do not activate this procedure unnecessarily, please ensure all your contact details are up to date.

This procedure is to ensure that we know where your child is and that you are all safe. 

There have been public cases in the past where schools have not chased up the reasons as to why children are off of school. It has then transpired that there have been tragic circumstances around these absences, e.g. illness of a parent and a child unable to seek help.

We will do everything we can to prevent such situations from occurring, as I am sure you would agree that your child’s safety is paramount to us all.