Look its a pat on the back for those that had 100% attendance….end of story. No ifs and buts….100% attendance is 100%….you cant start saying “Oh well John had 12 days off this year but he was sick so we will let him” ….”Sally had 10 days off sick, 4 days when her gran died, 2 days because they went on a family holiday and 6 days because they were moving house. None of those were her fault so she can attend also”…. Sorry people…..its for 100% attendance.

They shouldn’t count kids who have been sick, that’s just ridiculous. I see schools doing the same, rewarding classes with the best attendance. If they made students go who are sick, would they enjoy having it spread and vomit and diarrhea everywhere? I think not.

Not really. Maybe if they could differentiate between genuine absences and those that were just wagging…..that might be a bit fairer

Not very Smart or wise. As someone mentioned above, sometimes students are genuinely sick.

This is a UK school’s response. Does anyone else recall how many tv ads, computer ads, school newsletter blurbs that push for the ‘Every Day Counts’ campaign? It is a dilemma every school faces. Yes there are genuine reasons for absences but there is also complacency. If the school communicated their reward goal early and it was less visable for those left in class, I can see this as a good motivator, as long as those with 0 unexplained absences above a certain percent were also achnowledged somehow.

Perhaps the school should have started a conversation about this event at the beginning of school that way parents were informed moving into the term.

A certificate at the end of the year would have been better. Then again when I went to school this was just written on my report. Children can’t help getting sick. All of the children who missed out should have a special morning tea to celebrate getting through the school year. I think this is a form of bullying. Shame on Ormiston Academy for promoting a form of bullying. I’d never send my boys there in a million years

I agree to give the kids who attended school 100% a award just like the kids who can run the fastest or the kid who read the most books in the book challenge. (Don’t like the idea that the child is going to school sick… just so they get that award.) Some kids never get a award ever! Tea Party was not a good idea. Bad choice all kids would have enjoyed a tea party.

Hmmm… really? Our school used to hand out certificates at assembly at the end of term for 100% attendance. That was enough.

That’s awful. They’ll end up encouraging kids to come to school whether they’re sick or not. Sometimes it’s also parents who decide so out of kid’s control. It’s nice to reward but give the students a commendation and have a rewards system for other things too.

Sounds like discrimination, some (if not all) of the children without 100% attendance must have had very good grounds for not being at school surely.

Whatever happened to giving children verbal praise for their 100% attendance ? Thst is enough, afymter all that is what they are supposed to do……attend school!

You can reward kids without rubbing it in to the other who have missed out

Wow that’s disgusting and probably those parents of those kids who had 100% attendance sent their kids to school sick and passed it on to others who had a sick day

No way is this a fair way to reward students. I have had the same sort of thing happen to one of my children, I paid for him to attend some show that came to the school. The teacher forgot and he was left in the class with others who had not paid, he could hear it going on through the class window. . I had to ring the school the next day to ask why, all I got was a sorry and had to wait for them to be able to refund the money.

There is always a way to praise kids for great attendance without making others feel left out

There was a previous post about not handing out birthday invitations, same thing. The kids feel left out. You can reward students for attendance but not so publicly done and also unfair when these other students had legit ill days.

I can imagine the disappointment of the kids who were left in class.

Why not, workplaces do it as well. If there is an incentive it will make them strive harder and prepare them for the real world

The school must have really poor attendance