Model pupil finishes school without taking a single day off in 14 years

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Since she started her education at four, the 18-year-old has not missed a single day in class.

Michelle is about to start "revision leave" for her A-levels after turning up for lessons on 2,660 consecutive school days.

"There is no secret as to why I have not had a day off sick in the whole of my school life," she said. "I love school so have never been tempted to have a day off or use feeling unwell as an excuse not to come in.

"I have been lucky with my health, but if I have a cold or feel ill, coming to school helps as it takes my mind off it."

Other children would bring in sicknotes to Newlands Primary School in Ramsgate, Kent, but not Michelle. Nor did she at Clarendon House Grammar School in Ramsgate.

Jane Bennett, head of Clarendon House, said: "I have never come across someone with Michelle's attendance figures. I doubt if any teacher has because it is quite remarkable."

Michelle's mother Vanessa said: "After realising she had a 100 per cent attendance rate when she finished primary school, she thought, 'Why can't I do this for secondary school?'

"If she gets a cold she works through it. When Michelle has been ill, it has been during school holidays."

The teenager, who got four A*s and five As at GCSE, plays netball, tennis and golf and takes a multi-vitamin tablet every day.

After sitting A-levels in English literature, statistics, information technology and general studies, she hopes to study information technology at Kent University.