Carreg Hirfaen Primary School

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We aim To: provide the children and young people in our area with the education of the highest quality. We will achieve this in a friendly, homely, well-resourced environment using professional, committed, caring staff who continually strive for the highest standards.
We work with our community to provide our pupils with the widest range of educational and extracurricular opportunities, developing them into conscientious, confident, bilingual citizens of the future." Carreg Hirfaen is a Community Primary School for children between the age of 4 and 11. This small, rural school is located at Cwmann, near Lampeter, on the northern edge of the County of Carmarthenshire, near the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire.
Carmarthenshire Education Authority has placed the school in Category A. This means that the school is considered to be a traditional Welsh school. Parents have a legal responsibility to ensure that their children attend school regularly and should telephone the school before 9.10 a.m. on the first day of absence if their child is unable to attend school. We also appreciate a note explaining every absence to avoid official inquiries.
We are expected as a school to manage attendance and keep a record of pupil absence. All schools are required to record a pupil’s absence as either authorized or unauthorized. If parents fail to notify the school of an absence it will automatically be recorded as an unauthorized absence against the child.
Parents should inform the school in writing if an absence is known in advance. The school reserves the right in all cases of absence to determine the category of absence. When a child has a medical appointment during the school day parents should let the school know when the child will be collected. No child will be allowed to leave school unless collected by a responsible adult.
It is your responsibility as a parent to notify the school of every case of absence. The school is using a computerized and electronic system to maintain pupils’ attendance register every day. The procedure enables the Education Authority to monitor patterns of attendance, absence, and possible truancy in schools. The procedure reveals cases of absence without permission and we as a school are expected to be referred (those for which we do not receive a reason) to the attention of the Education and Welfare Officer.

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