Student Attendance Threshold Warning Letter
A formal letter to parents when a student's attendance drops below the defined policy threshold, stating the current percentage, number of absences, and outlining next steps.
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Greenwood International School ATTENDANCE THRESHOLD WARNING Date: 2026-09-01 Dear James Thompson, I am writing to inform you of a concern regarding Emma Thompson's attendance at Greenwood International School. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ATTENDANCE SUMMARY Current Attendance Rate: 87% Policy Threshold: 90% Total Absences This Year: 18 days Excused Absences: 12 days Unexcused Absences: 6 days ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS MATTERS Regular attendance is essential for academic success. Research shows that students who attend school regularly: • Achieve better academic outcomes • Develop stronger social connections • Are more likely to complete their qualifications • Build habits that support future employment When attendance falls below 90%, we are required to take formal action to address the situation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NEXT STEPS Please contact the school to arrange a meeting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT AVAILABLE We want to work with you to improve Emma Thompson's attendance. Support is available through: • Attendance Officer: Mrs. Smith • [School counsellor name] • [Attendance support officer] Please contact us to arrange a meeting to discuss how we can work together to support Emma Thompson's attendance. Yours sincerely, Mr. David Johnson Greenwood International School
About This Template
The letter states the pupil's attendance percentage against the school's threshold, the support being offered and the next step if attendance does not improve.
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Topics this template covers: attendance warning · threshold letter · attendance policy · parent letter
How to Use This Template
Pull Current Attendance % and Total Absences (days) from your MIS before writing, then split Excused Absences and Unexcused Absences so the picture is honest. Set Policy Threshold % to your published figure (often 90) and use Next Steps to state exactly what happens if attendance does not recover.
Fill Why This Matters and Support Available with real provision — meetings, coloured-zone support, medical referrals — and name the administrator and Support Contact at the end. Issue it when a pupil crosses the threshold, send a copy to the form tutor, and diarise a review four weeks later.
When to Use This Template
End-of-term reporting
Assemble attendance figures, highlights and action points into one consistent document for leadership or governors at the close of a term.
Ad-hoc status updates
Need to report on a transport review or parent survey on short notice? Fill in the same sections and send a document people already know how to read.
Comparing results term over term
Keep the section headings identical between terms so leadership can compare attendance, outcomes and initiatives side by side without rebuilding the structure each time.
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