Attendance Poster On Classroom Wall

[Verbena37]

Totally fuming!
DS (yr7) has just told me his form tutor has put a ladder of attendance poster up on the classroom wall with stickers showing every child's attendedence!!

Surely this is breaking the data protection act?
Why would the school think this was in any way acceptable?

exltevedallas they're allowed to use mobiles in school at break and lunch. It's also actively encouraged on some lessons for research, rather than going to the library.

Noble I'm pretty sure they can pass on things they wanted raising.

Ours has the whole school attendance for each child in an area where all kids can see it.

I don't think it is a bad idea. As others have said, good attendance is a life skill, and will significantly impact on their achievement.

I thought the suggestion that a classroom teacher could toddle along to an SLT meeting and tell them that their policy was rubbish was quite funny.

That's an understatement Noble! More like crying with laughter funny!

Op - with all due respect as PP have said have not understood the issues

1. It is not breaking any aspect of the DP act - attendance is very much noticed by peers so no confidential information is being divulged

1. Teachers have no power over SLT policies which in turn are influenced by OFSTED's latest issues

Apologies for the very poor English in my post - trying to watch TV whilst posting and paying attention to DS!

Hi, just came on to add that I too, like fourcorneredcircle, seem to find myself constantly opening threads complaining about schools, written by you OP.

And yes, it is hilarious to still think that teachers can just walk into an SLT meeting and tell them they disagree with a policy!!!

And as I teach various aspects about the Data Protection Act, I can assure you that your DS's Form Tutor is not contravening any of the 8 principles, even if he is using percentages. Sorry.

Do your children know that you constantly complain to their schools? I only ask if that is why your DS taking photos of an attendance notice board because he knows you will kick up a fuss?

To begin with, I wasn't really bothered about the quite arsed way in which some people have replied to this post but then, having re-read some, they're actually really hurtful.

All I said was that his teacher had put up the poster on the wall: I didn't blame her personally and I don't know if it's a year group policy thing, just an idea she has or a new policy that the whole school are bringing in.

I'm not 'teacher bashing' ... .I'm questioning why things are being done in a certain way. A few of you have made me feel totally stupid for even questioning it. There are others on the thread that also disagreed with it so I'm not totally alone in thinking it isn't right. Just because you disagree with me, or I with you, doesn't mean you have to be catty and rude to me personally.

I'll be sticking with the lovely people on the SEN boards from now on I think. Heaven forbid I post anything in 'education' that negatively questions anything educational.

Perhaps some of my secondary ed. posts are negative because of the often insensitive way mainstream secondary teachers (who are supposed to treat every child with SEN equally and are supposed to teach within the Teach First ethos) aren't actually being inclusive in their teaching, whilst I have an autistic child who hates school and tells me every day to kill him or that he is going to kill himself so he doesn't have to sit in class feeling like a stranger.who cannot process information as easily as the other children.

Perhaps some of my secondary ed. posts are negative because of the often insensitive way mainstream secondary teachers (who are supposed to treat every child with SEN equally and are supposed to teach within the Teach First ethos) aren't actually being inclusive in their teaching

I think it is your sweeping statements that wind everybody up.

Exactly piece.

Sweeping generalisations are unfair and not called for.

As an aside I've never heard of the Teach First ethos.

Quality First Teaching (slight misnomer in Verbena's post).

my.optimus-education.com/what-do-we-really-mean-quality-first-teaching

It's an expression used to talk about quality teaching - but it's a phrase mainly used in primary schools. Certainly that's where most of the research has been done. Basically, it describes good teaching.

Since 84% of schools are good or better (citation www.gov.uk/government/news/record-number-of-pupils-in-good-or-outstanding-schools) most teachers are working in that way, even if they don't recognise the term. Yay!

It's quite often talked about in SEN provision in mainstream when we talk about teachers being ultimately responsible for children's progress, Not TAs. And it's part of the justification that teachers should be differentiating their resources, methods etc.

I think the terminology and research has slipped by secondary for the most part as because TAs/teachers don't work in the same way (I.e they don't work together a lot, and TAs aren't as involved in the planning of lesson etc. Due to the nature of changing classes and students throughout the day) secondary teachers have to tailor their resources etc. As part of their planning and have been less reliant than perhaps primary was in the past on TAs being able to do that.

Most teachers are doing it without realising :)

Thank you fourcorneredcircle for your wxtremely helpful and informative post-as a secondary teacher I had never heard of that (rarely have TAs in my classes for example but do have to follow the correct frameworks to support all the pupils that I teach ) and I haven't had good experiences with the actual Teach First training scheme as a mentor for it, so that relieves me!

*extremely