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PROUD Niall leaves St Chris-topher’s with his perfect attendance record.
PROUD Niall leaves St Chris-topher’s with his perfect attendance record.
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Not a single day off school in 11 years

Kate Watkins and Sophie Maden
16/ 5/2008

TEENAGER Niall Gibson walked out of school for the last time on Wednesday as the proud holder of a remarkable record – never having missed a single day.

Niall, 16, had a perfect 100 per cent attendance record during his 11 years at St Nicholas’ Primary School in Church and then at St Christopher’s High School, Accrington.

He never had a single day off sick and was never taken out of school for a family holiday.

Niall, of Queens Road West, Accrington, said: "I’m just never ill.

"Actually I was ill once, but that was over the Christmas holidays."

His favourite class was geograph but after sitting his GCSEs he plans to start a plastering course this summer and possibly go on to work with his uncle.

He added: "I'm going to start work straight away but I might try to throw a sickie for a change if my uncle lets me get away with it!"

His parents, Alison and John, said getting Niall to school everyday had occasionally proved a bit of a challenge.

Alison said: "There have been days when he begged me to stay at home but I insisted he must go.

"He has gone to school feeling off but I always told him the school would send him home if he was really bad."

Accrington Stanley supporter Niall has a brother Callum, 17, and sister Grace 12, both of whom also have good attendance records.

Alison said: "We tell our kids that going to school is important. I always tell them they should get their education now while it’s free so they won’t have to pay for it later in life."

She added: "It's not something you hear about everyday, a child going right through school without being off sick, and we are really proud of him."

Niall, along with five other pupils who have had five years’ full attendance at St Christ-opher’s, will receive a prize at the school awards night in October.

A school spokeswoman said: "Niall’s perfect attendance throu-ghout his school career is a tremendous achievement.

"We wish him and all our other Year 11 pupils well in their GSCE examinations."


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   At least he is following the law of the land and doing as he's told;and his parents CARE about his education, it's surely better than the kids who constantly skip school and truant and whose parents do little or naff-all to stop it,and whose parents constantly take kids out of school to go on holiday in termtime and those hardcore truant kids who persist and risk landing their parents in court with threats of fines and jail.
AnthonyUK, Accrington,Lancs
19/05/2008 at 11:24
   Big deal, so what have you got out of it ?

That cheap plaque ?
Mike Brailsford, Blackpool
16/05/2008 at 16:08
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