A student has clocked up an amazing record by not missing a single day of classes in 13 years.

Jacklyn Thackrey, 15, of West Gate Community College, in Newcastle, has spent 2,470 days and 14,820 hours in class.

She is the star of the 100 per cent Attendance Club, set up by Newcastle City Council's education welfare service to reward students.

Jacklyn has been to school every day since the age of three when she attended Delaval Road Nursery, before moving on to Delaval Road Primary and then on to West Gate Community College.

She said: "It's just coming to school - so I don't see it as a big thing. I have been ill a few times, but it has always been in the holidays.

"My friends think I'm mad, I think most people have probably missed a few days here and there."

Jacklyn is doing her GCSEs and hopes to stay on to do advanced health and social care before going to college to do a two-year nursing degree.

West Gate headteacher Jim Farnie said: "Many pupils have 100 per cent attendance on an annual basis but it's exceptional for someone to go through their school career without a single day absent."