Attendance
(with a particular focus on severe absence and the 90-95% band)
A toolkit for schools produced in collaboration with the sector (including schools most effective at improving attendance) provides a suite of adoptable practices, tools and resources which reflect the working together to improve school attendance guidance.
The Education Endowment Foundation supporting school attendance resource provides evidence-based recommendations to improve pupil attendance, accompanied by further reading and best practice examples. Their guidance is structured around 6 themes:
Communicating with families
The toolkit for communicating with families to support attendance provides:
- examples of communications with parents and carers about school attendance
- insight into different types of school absence and family decision-making related to these
You can keep up t o date with the Norfolk Attendance team here: Attendance news and training events - Norfolk Schools and Learning Providers - Norfolk County Council
Regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) attendance and behaviour hubs programme
The regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) attendance and behaviour hubs programme is a national initiative designed to support schools in improving pupil attendance and behaviour. Joining the programme offers schools an opportunity to engage with attendance and behaviour hubs to improve their practice and become partner schools. You can register your interest in the new RISE attendance and behaviour hub programme to receive support here online form.
If you missed the RISE attendance and attainment session for primary leaders you can find the delegate pack with links to recordings of all sessions here (PDF, 304 KB).
Suite of DfE RISE webinars
Working together to improve school attendance local authority effective practice examples - YouTube A series of videos are provided to help schools and local authorities understand their roles and responsibilities in addressing absence and what tools are available to enable them.
