what is your primary school policy regarding lateness?

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In my Ds's school, the child is led to class by a member of staff, and they have to carry a yellow card to class that says "I am so sorry for being so late"... State school. Reception class.

LOL!Nappy rolling extremely underrated!(sp?)

Ours are signed in by the office and then make their own way down to the classroom.

Families who are regularly late may be contacted by the EWO (educational welfare officer).

However, because we have some children with very poor attendance, having them arrive late, rather than not at all, may be a big improvement, so we don't have an automatic policy of contacting people if they are late. In fact, sometimes our EWO contacts people to praise them for being late rather than absent

In the school I work at, if a child is late then the parents take them to the office to sign in and to sort out lunch option. They are given a yellow card. The parents then take the child to their class. The child gives the teacher the card. Lateness is flaged up if consistent but not sure who by or what happens (not been there long) This is an infant school, state system.

In DD's school if a child is late they go straight to their class. If the register is stilla round the teacher makes them as late; if not the teacher calls the office to let them know. Regular lateness would be flagged up with parents initially by the class teacher, the the head of infants if continues. DD is at a private prep school, and in pre-prep (infants).

I take the register fairly promptly in the morning (school opens at 8.50, register at 9). We only mark in the absent children which means anyone coming in late (ie anytime after their name has been called) has a second mark against their name to indicate now arrived.
Their reason for being late has to be written on a separate sheet (they can be quite inventive) but I will often write "no reason" if only a minute or two late. It does tend to be the same children though.

No idea what happens at my DC school, as thankfully they've never been late (DH usually takes them & he has a no-nonsence approach to getting them out in the mornings).

At a primary school I am doing some work at, the (new) head has put up a whiteboard at the entrance with the lateness statistics writ large upon in! He's was joking (I think) about 'naming & shaming' persistant offenders.