SCHOOL ATTENDANCE… a thread 🧵 As the end of the Summer Term approaches, here’s a quick summary of the current situation with pupil attendance in schools. Academic year to date (up to 26 May 2023): 📍Overall absence: 7.5% 📍Persistent absence: 22.1% …e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic…

🌟more sentence work🌟 helping students to generate ideas. Last time, the work they produced gave them loads of confidence which was really motivating. This time I want them to think about a place at different times. Dropbox below 1/3 Credit to Douglas Wise for the initial idea!

Editable version of the Attendance Journey 👇 docs.google.com/presentation/d…

My first term as Headteacher complete! I’m super proud of what Longdendale High School have achieved 👏 Our values have been front and centre in all that we have done Respect ✅ Resilience ✅ Aspiration ✅ #TheLongdendaleLegacy

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👇👇👇Digging deeper into sentences and exploring the power of sentence openings today! Thinking time and modelled responses allowed us to craft some superb pieces of work with high levels of variety and technical accuracy🔑

📚 Need strategies to help your students think more deeply about what they're reading? 🔎 Explore this active reading strategy for use in any learning landscape: bit.ly/3zUIcB9 #engchat #literacy

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Attendance DOES matter❗ buff.ly/Oc0feTg via Leesville R-IX School District #learning #edutwitter

Macbeth Extract Mapping #gcseliterature #macbeth

I'm excited about our new book, pulling together the threads of what great schools do & celebrating them. We've explored curriculum, learning, behaviour, attendance, personal development & leadership. I'm forever indebted to all schools I've visited/ worked with. Link in comment

🗣️ 'School avoidance it’s not about children being ‘difficult’ or parents being ‘soft’. It’s about real, often overwhelming distress that can be challenging to get to the root of' Mrs Atherton buff.ly/Fnnyp82

Just read this article about addressing attendance issues in Nottingham (bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…) it prompted me to share our OneCornwall Teaching School Hub report, on evidence informed, sustainable approaches to improving attendance to school and attendance to learning onecornwall.co.uk/_site/data/pub…

Interesting new attendance report published by the Department for Education. Unsurprisingly, year on year patterns are persistent - poor school attendees maintain negative trends, although it seems more amendable to change in primary school than secondary. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/681db69a…

We’re tackling poor mental health, poor attendance and poor behaviour. This year, Mental Health Support Teams will be available to another 900,000 children in schools across our country. We’re delivering on our Plan for Change. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

Fears school attendance won't recover until 2034 bbc.in/3Fkhsx2

Lesson feedback: don't send it, don't give it - co-construct it. Otherwise, it won't be worth it. teacherhead.com/2024/01/28/les… via Tom Sherrington

AQA English Literature examiner feedback summarised thehappyteacherhub.co.uk/resources-of-t…