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11/12/24

The dress rehearsal for our Winter Show was a great success! Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow night!🎄 pic.twitter.com/mVj1HE24zy

10/12/24

🎶 Yesterday’s Year 7 Celebration Assembly was truly special! 🌟 The highlight? Their beautiful all-year singing performance – such talent and unity on display! 👏💛 Well done Year 7 – you’ve made us all so proud! pic.twitter.com/SfC6Qk9f4L

06/12/24

Field set up prep! pic.twitter.com/TA0UGpBTsE

06/12/24

Thank you to visiting Harris Academy Sutton as part of UK Parliament week. Mr Taylor spoke to the Year 11s about his role of the new MP for Sutton and Cheam and how he represents the constituency in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/1CjfTSq4oS

04/12/24

🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Celebration Evening yesterday! It was a fantastic night honoring our students' achievements.🌟Congratulations to all the award recipients – you’ve made us so proud! 🏆👏 pic.twitter.com/SosvAVv40V

02/12/24

Our big day tomorrow! Join us for our HASU Celebration Evening as we present the incredible achievements and successes of our students with a variety of awards.🏆We’re excited to celebrate together and look forward to seeing you there!#HASU pic.twitter.com/jy8BjvQMVK

02/12/24

Huge congratulations to Billy, who attended the Sutton Community Awards Evening and proudly received his Outstanding Young Person Award!🏆A well-deserved recognition for his incredible achievements. We’re so proud of you, Billy!👏 pic.twitter.com/TeCQJtyQ5c

02/12/24

Last Thursday, we hosted our HASU6 Open Evening, and it was a fantastic event! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who attended and explored what we have to offer. Excited to see so many future students inspired and eager to join us! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/rtiaaA5RJp

29/11/24

Sutton Community Awards 2024💜 🏆Thank you to everyone who attended the Sutton Community Awards last night. It was once again a magical evening meeting everyone who was shortlisted. pic.twitter.com/hjt7fsddNB

29/11/24

Thank you to for visiting Harris Academy Sutton as part of UK Parliament week. Mr Taylor spoke to the Year 11s about his role of the new MP for Sutton and Cheam and how he represents the constituency in Parliament.#parliament pic.twitter.com/27EmEGFqRD

25/11/24

🎶 Last Wednesday, we held our first Orchestra Enrichment session with Mr. Litchfield, and it sounded absolutely amazing! 🎻👏Can’t wait to hear what they create next! 🌟 pic.twitter.com/9aBimAovUK

21/11/24

Say hello to our new teams and current teams working together pic.twitter.com/cRTUfO3wGd

21/11/24

HASU robotics watching the webinar on notebooks and portfolio! pic.twitter.com/WoaN42jve5

20/11/24

🎭✨ The countdown is on! Our School Winter Show is just around the corner, and we can’t wait to share the magic with you.❄️🌟 Stay tuned for incredible performances, festive cheer, and plenty of talent on display! 🎉#WinterShow pic.twitter.com/fImcA2yuVm

15/11/24

♟️ Our students are making the most of their break time with some friendly chess matches! Great to see their focus and strategy skills in action. 🧠👏 pic.twitter.com/WtPYfq0YJb

15/11/24

Our Year 10 Scholars visited Harris Westminster Sixth Form for a study skills session with The Life Skills Company where they learnt how to speed read, take notes effectively and condense text to remember key points for revision. All fantastic, invaluable skills to know. pic.twitter.com/Ce2MmkESBl

13/11/24

🎉 Our IID Career Speed Networking event was a huge success! Our students connected with a range of employers and asked fantastic questions. A big thank you to everyone involved – we hope this experience inspires their future ventures!#CareerNetworking pic.twitter.com/VwCzEAbv8f

11/11/24

📢Huge congratulations to our student Allegra for having her article published in the Young Reporter scheme! Her insightful piece on the Diamond Riding Centre’s Autumn Fair for disabled riders is a fantastic read.Check it out: https://t.co/8tRcbcxmEK pic.twitter.com/UgmSiMxVwO

11/11/24

Billy has been nominated for the Outstanding Young Person of the Year Award at the Sutton Community Awards 2024!The award celebrates people under 21 who bring credit to the borough through exceptional academic, sporting, artistic, or cultural achievements. Well done, Billy!🌟👏 pic.twitter.com/sysLTEqbSo

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Attendance

Harris Academy Sutton regards attendance as a key factor in supporting students to maximise their potential. We believe that all students are only able to achieve their potential if they attend school punctually and avoid missing lessons.  We thus expect students to achieve 100% attendance and punctuality. Individual student records prove that this is achievable. Punctuality to school is crucial to create a calm and purposeful atmosphere and students who are persistently late often disrupt their own and others’ learning. We expect students to arrive on time for learning.

A student’s progress is severely hampered if he does not regularly attend school. To illustrate:

  • 90% attendance is an average of one day out of school per fortnight over a school year.
  • 90% attendance over 5 years at secondary school is half a school year missed.
  • 80% attendance over 5 years at secondary school is the same as one whole school year missed.

Harris Sutton’s: Attendance Definitions

98-100%

Expected

95-97%

Satisfactory

Below 95% but above 90%

A cause for concern

Below 90%

A serious cause for concern

It is clearly understood that there are exceptional circumstances when levels of attendance may fall below 98% or even 95% for reasons beyond the student and parents’ control. These are very rare exceptions rather than the rule.

Furthermore, we acknowledge the link between school attendance and safeguarding, and the need to monitor attendance carefully in order to address poor or irregular attendance without delay. We will do all we can to ensure that our students achieve maximum possible attendance and that any problems that prevent full attendance are identified and acted upon promptly.

The Academy gates open at 8am. Our lessons begin at 8.30am, and we suggest students arrive at 8.15am latest to start lesson promptly at 8.25am. Students that arrive after 8.25am will receive a punctuality mark and a break & lunch time detention, unless a parent calls to explain an extenuating reason for the lateness.

Attendance 1

We expect that all students will:

  • Attend school regularly
  • Attend school punctually
  • Attend school appropriately prepared for the day

We expect that all parents/carers who have day to day responsibility for the children and young people will:

  • Encourage regular school attendance and be aware of their legal responsibilities;
  • Ensure that the child/children in their care arrive at school punctually, prepared for the school day;
  • Parents and carers are requested to notify the school of any absence for every day of their child’s absence and any further subsequent absence. 

Reporting Absence

Parents and carers are requested to notify the school of any absence for every day of their child’s absence. We ask that you fill in the absence reporting form linked below:

ABSENCE REPORTING FORM

Our school’s attendance officer will decide whether the absence is authorised or not. In the case of parents not notifying the school of any absence we will make contact to find out why your child is not in school.

 

If you wish to request a special leave of absence, for example to attend a funeral, you will need to fill in an absence request form below: 

APPLICATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE

This must be completed well in advance. The final decision whether to approve will be made by the Principal.

Harris Academy Sutton does not authorise any holidays taken during term time and this will be recorded as unauthorised.