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• Overall absence across all state schools has dropped to 6.9%, down 0.3 percentage points from last year • Persistent absence has improved, falling from 20.7% to 18.7% • In the autumn term alone, absence stood at 6.38%, with persistent absence at 17.79%

The Ongoing Concerns • Severe absence (missing more than 50% of sessions) has increased to 2.04% • This means over 147,000 children are now classed as severely absent • Persistent absence is still around 40% higher than in 2019, before the pandemic

By Demographic Group • Pupils eligible for FSM: – Persistent absence: 29.9% – Severe absence: 3.6% • Non-FSM: – Persistent absence: 12.7% – Severe absence: 0.99%

SEND Context • Persistent absence: – EHCP: 33.3% – SEN support: 26.3% – No SEN: 14.7% • Severe absence: – EHCP: 6.9% – SEN support: 3.7% – No SEN: 0.97%

By School Type • Persistent absence: – Primary: 13.5% – Secondary: 24.3% – Special schools: 35.8%

41 years ago this week - hard work and great coaching paying off for a moment I will never forget.

Victory in the penultimate preseason game! Thank you to Farnborough FC Women for the game and best of luck for the rest of the season 🤝 #UpTheBoatwomen 🚢 #PrideOfEastSouthampton🔴⚪️

I am incredibly proud that Rob’s final documentary – There’s Only One Rob Burrow - has made the shortlist for the National Television Awards. As Rob always said - In a world full of adversity we must dare to dream.  Please vote for Rob nationaltvaward.com

NEW POST: Calculating a Key Stage 4 progress measure using CAT4 in place of Key Stage 2 There will be no official Progress 8 measures this year due to the cancellation of KS2 tests in 2020. We've produced an alternative using CAT4 scores as a baseline. vist.ly/44q44

The Back Of Love, Whitehaven 2006. Not a phone in sight—just hands in the air and beer bottles flying. The good old days 🍻✨

Day 1 at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich - great city, great friends and some promising performances in the stadium which bodes well a couple weeks ahead of the World Championships - 東京2025世界陸上/World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 - in Tokyo - the first in our new strategy to end each season with a World

Today, we are launching the Ofsted report card and renewed education inspection framework. It’s a big day for us, as well as for children, parents and education professionals. Here’s what you need to know ⬇️

Absolutely unreal. 🤯 The moment Armand Duplantis broke the world record for the 14th time...

John Peel’s Festive 50 1979

Two minutes after coming on! Floyd plays a great ball through and Emily places it past the keeper to make it 4 Badshot 1 - 4 Sholing

How can we close the attainment gap for disadvantaged boys? An initiative at United Learning has succeeded in improving behaviour, attendance and engagement among boys on free school meals, finds Ellen Peirson-Hagger tes.com/magazine/teach…

I spoke too soon - Progress 8 is NOT staying the same! Govt have overruled CAR and proposed changing it to incentivise arts subjects. Big change!! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/690a8e53…

Breaking: The government is proposing sweeping reforms to progress 8, the main league table measure for secondary schools, in a bid to boost arts take-up – and will ditch the EBacc from this academic year schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-ignores-fr…

📢 The role of data on inspections We've released the Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) for schools and Further Education and Skills Inspection Tool (FESIT) for FE providers. Our new blog explains the changes and how we use data on inspection: educationinspection.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/07/the…