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
Ofsted said schools still faced the challenge of parents keeping children off school 'unnecessarily' due to Covid 'proximity'

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
Ofsted said schools still faced the challenge of parents keeping children off school 'unnecessarily' due to Covid 'proximity'

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
Catherine McKinnell

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
Exclusive

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
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Building capacity in family support to tackle low school attendance 

Persistent and severe school absence impacts children, families, and communities—especially in disadvantaged areas. School-Home Support’s Attendance Support and Development Programme...

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Nicola Williams, Schools Manager at School-Home Support
Schools

6 key school findings from biggest annual parent survey

Worrying findings on school absences, home education and children feeling unsafe at school

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth