We are delighted to be named as a #BehaviourHub lead school for Department for Education As an EEF research school we believe in an evidence-based approach and one that works for all children & includes children with SEND.

Wonderful to have the senior team from Robert Mays School, Hampshire, visit for a #BehaviourHub Open day last week Maiden Erlegh School

A great day working with fellow #behaviourhub schools today. Really enjoyed listening to Tom Bennett OBE with the Aquila team.

Fabulous achievement for ⁦Great Schools Trust⁩ 🤩🤩🤩 #behaviourhub #trust ⁦@KSharpKLA⁩ DfE unveils dozens of new behaviour hub schools and trusts schoolsweek.co.uk/new-mat-school…

We’ve had such a good day today at Behaviour Hubs with Tom Bennett OBE very informative and thought provoking… excited for what’s ahead. Ben Layzell 🤩

I’m so proud Port Vale FC and tomorrow I will be coming home to celebrate. Click the link in my bio for ways you can help. Who’s ready?! x

My Magna Carta lecture last night Royal Holloway - "A sort of post-Covid torpor seems to have infected many prisons, with workshops and classrooms empty and prisoners wiling away their time watching daytime TV and sleeping." justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/wp-…

We shortly graduate from the DfE Behaviour Hub. Today I analysed our staff survey data. 86% now rate behaviour as good or better - increase of 43%. Our best answer is about appropriate training for ALL staff - 86% agree+ increase of 66%! Beacon School Support Tom Bennett OBE 1/2

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Getting to grips with Working Together to Improve School Attendance, June 12th 4-5pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-toge…

Check out "Working Together to Improve School Attendance" All five Working Together to Improve School Attendance sessions are now live and ready to book. eventbrite.com/cc/working-tog… Eventbrite

Yesterday saw the publication of a new interactive attendance data set and it's fantastic! You can find the tool here: lnkd.in/edWEFnAb

Firstly, we need to focus on the 35% of children who miss between 5% and 15% of school annually - roughly 2-6 weeks. That is over 1.1m in secondary and over 1.3m in primary. These pupils are typically missing odd days, which are data shows has the worst impact on attainment. 2/6

But this also has a positive impact on those pupils who already have very high attendance, through less disruption, better behaviour and less pressure on teachers to juggle the catch up for pupils who have missed different lessons. A win win. 3/6

Secondly, our data shows that not only do we need to support pupils brilliantly from year 6 to year 7 (and lots of schools do this *brilliantly*), but also from year 7 to year 8 where absence starts to creep up. Thoughts from #edutwitter on why this is, gratefully received. 4/6

Thirdly, none of this can be at the expense of severely absent pupils, who miss over 50% of school. There were over 19,000 SA pupils in primary and over 102,000 in secondary. This is where we need a strong multi agency response and as schools to can't resolve this alone. 5/6

Finally, all feedback from schools, teachers, parents and pupils about how you use this data is welcome. Our teachers and leaders are so dedicated and skilful in educating our children - we hope this data breaks down the attendance challenge so that it feels more achievable. 6/6

Next is Jayne Lowe DfE Attendance advisor, another expert talking about the importance of students attending and ways to support them. 3 takeaways from the national data: