Jayne Lowe talks about how strong attendance starts with schools building trust and positive relationships with families from the very beginning. When schools and parents work together around the shared goal of helping children feel happy, included and able to do well, attendance is more likely to improve.
In this blog, we hear from attendance leads from a school and a trust explain how they are using the Monitor Your School Attendance tool to improve strategies to attendance and have more meaningful conversations with families, head teachers and local authorities.
Richard Prime, the headteacher at Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School, explains the 6 steps schools can take to help ensure fantastic attendance on Fridays and during final weeks of term.
Read about how schools have been sharing daily attendance data with DfE and making use of the Monitor Your School Attendance (MYSA) service - a free, secure tool that helps them visualise the data and monitor, manage and improve pupil attendance.
Sarah Cox, headteacher of Willows Primary Academy in Grimsby (part of DELTA Academies Trust) tells us about the many successful initiatives they use to tackle attendance challenges at school.
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