How is school attendance being recorded?

[fourpeasinapod]

I’m assuming all pupils aren’t being recorded as absent the rest of the year, am I right?

I would guess it would just be recorded as school closed.

I'm an education welfare officer. Same code as for school holidays, non school days.

Why does it matter now? There isn’t any attendance for the children who aren’t registered to attend and the key workers children are registered when they are there, which for most of them is not every day.

My dc’s school is making contact with them both every two weeks in case I’ve murdered them. The school is phoning me and asking to speak to each child.

I’m surprised they are even bothering to mark key workers children in if they attend.

It’s strange that it’s necessary to record attendance at this point

Savoy Cabbage - it doesn’t matter really. I’m just interested if they had ways of recording attendance in these circumstances without hindering a child’s attendance record

@cinnabuns is that just up until the end of This academic year or have they continued those marks into the next academic year?

We were self isolating the week before lockdown, when I advised of DDs absence using the school app, i put self isolating. The school app was updated to mark her attendance with O, the same code as for inset days. Usually if she's absent it's marked with X.

Is X not a no attendance required code? I don’t think it counts towards their attendance percentage if they receive that mark

Marked as educated off site I would imagine ... not sure anyone is actually bothering

II’m surprised they are even bothering to mark key workers children in if they attend.

It’s strange that it’s necessary to record attendance at this point

Surely you are not really that unaware?

@perniciousdot

No, I’m not unaware. Just saying that even if a child attends school at this stage voluntarily, why is there a need to even bother marking them as present cause surely attendance at this stage is irrelevant

Why wouldn’t we register the keyworkers children? What if we lost one on the way back PE? In fact I’d say it’s more important not less.

Generally know who is in your class and how many there should be and how many there are. The staff are the same week in week out. Now you have different numbers every day expected and attending, some of whom you’ve never seen in your life!

SavoyCabbage fair enough point

SavoyCabbage I kinda get the feeling that you’re a teacher?

What are key workers children even doing when they go to school? I didn’t think they’d be taking part in lessons? Do they not just sit there all day and just colour in or something?

Our GoForSchools for one child says Y - child can't attend due to exceptional circumstances and other child says partial or whole school closure as code. Not sure why they have different codes, one is SN (code Y) but neither offered a place.

Most schools use SIMS

It's just not key worker children during normal school days it also includes vulnerable children.

I assume they will be doing the same work that is being sent to their classmates that are at home

I would imagine for safeguarding, fire regulations, and security it's important to register the children (and have a note of staff) who were physically present in the school.

Guidance for schools:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-attendance-recording-for-educational-settings/educational-settings-self-reporting-online-form-frequently-asked-questions-faq

I'm a depute head in Scotland. All children are marked on the central register system as school closure days. This has been done for the next three weeks - will await the next announce before it is changed (if needed) for week 4 & beyond.
Key workers/vulnerable children attending hub schools are registered as attending for health and safety - this will not show up as greater attendance on end of year reports than those pupils who are at home.

No, I’m not unaware. Just saying that even if a child attends school at this stage voluntarily, why is there a need to even bother marking them as present cause surely attendance at this stage is irrelevant

It’s not about attendance fgs, they need to know who is in the building.

Seriously, what kind of a question is that, who actually cares?? What difference does it make, bizarre.

@mortforya what? Is there a problem with
My question?

Children at hub schools in the first 2 weeks were mostly completing work set by their own class teachers, as well as some more 'holiday club' type activities. This has been even more relaxed over the Easter hols. Children are attending for childcare essentially, not for education. There was a mix of nursery/primary/secondary teachers & support staff at our local hub - lots of fun, busy activities.

The %attendance will be the number of sessions attended in comparison to the number of sessions school is open.
This is usually 312 session per school year (if I recall correctly) but will obviously be much less this year because of school closures.
E.g. If schools remain closed for a further 30 days, assuming they were closed for a week before the easter break, that would equate to 70 fewer sessions so a total of 242 session for the year.