Week 5, Term 3
School Attendance
Dear Parents
Tinwald School continues to focus on attendance in 2025. If a student misses one day of school every two weeks, they miss more than a whole year of school by 16 years of age.
As a parent or caregiver, you, alongside our school, play a key role in building strong habits of regular school attendance.
All students are legally required to attend school every day and it is a shared responsibility to make sure students attend and engage in learning from when they first start school.
You must let the school know if your child is going to be absent or intends to be absent for a portion of the school term for whatever reason, like a tangi or medical procedure.
Family holidays or taking time off for extracurricular activities (not organised by school) are not acceptable reasons for being absent.
The school has set an attendance target of every child attending at least 90% of the time. This is equivalent to being at school 9 days out of every 10, or only absent one day in a fortnight.
In the first two weeks back at school this term, only 61% of children achieved the school target of attending more than 90% of the two weeks. We realise there is a large amount of sickness amongst children, however not all of this absenteeism is due to this.
Please make sure you are doing all that you can to have your child at school so that they do not miss out on their learning.
Peter Livingstone
Principal
Tinwald School New Librarian
Congratulations Carmeena!! Tinwald School has a new librarian - Mrs Carmeena Heney. Carmeena has been working at Tinwald School for four years and is really excited to take on the library role.
Board of Trustees Election Results
Congratulations to our new trustees and thank you for putting your hand up to take on this very important role.
Coming Up at Tinwald
We have a number of events coming up in the second half of the term:
Weeks 4 and 5: Class and Syndicate Speech Finals
Week 5: Year 5 and 6 Museum Trip
Week 6: School Speech Finals
Weeks 5 and 6: Life Education
Week 6: Year 5 and 6 Winter Sports
More information for each of these events will be sent out closer to the time.
Fresh Choice Opening - Performance Group
A big thank you to all the parents who made sure their children were at Fresh Choice before 8am!! Our children performed well as part of the opening of the new Fresh Choice Supermarket in Tinwald.