Attendance

Schools should take ‘proactive’ action to get kids back to class, new rules state

Everything leaders need to know from new statutory guidance on children missing education

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Top trust boss backs ‘absence awareness courses’ for parents

Courses on impact of persistent absence could help reinforce 'parent agency' and reportedly being considered by government

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Solutions

Cinema trips and summer schools boost attendance 

We look at a school bucking the national trend of rising absences to learn how they're doing it

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Attendance

NFER’s 5 ways to cut school absence

'Schools should consider prioritising encouraging and individualised approaches in addition to punitive sanction'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Attendance

Big jump in SEND pupils missing more school than they attend

Severe absence increases among some of the most vulnerable pupils in the system

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

95%+ attendance almost doubles odds of GCSE pass

DfE research finds missing just 10 days of year 11 halves the odds of getting a grade 5 in...

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
Attendance

Poorer pupils’ higher absences ‘entirely explain’ growth in attainment gap

Disadvantage gap would be four months smaller at age 16 if absence rates between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils were...

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
Attendance

Term-time holidays a ‘small part’ of attendance woes – minister

Catherine McKinnell says she's focused on children who regularly miss 'significant amounts of school'

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
Solutions

Trust’s ‘FOMO Fridays’ help boost end-of-week attendance

Attendance boosted after initiatives aimed at making pupils feel they 'belong' and 'want to be in school' on Fridays

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks