Are more boys coming back at your school?

[Grasspigeons]

I work in admin so have to do this DFE return every day. It asks numbers of children, social workers, ehcps, critical workers etc but no other demographics which is fine. I dont want a longer form!
But, at my school and all the schools that i know of (eg teacher have their child in school, friend works there) far more boys have gone back than girls. I wondered if this was just a coincidence or if others here have found that as well.

My child's class was boy heavy, but only two of them are in her bubble of 11, only 2 boys in the other bubble of 8.

Thats interesting. I wonder if its friendship groups returning? Like one parent is happy to return and sells it to their friends.

We are secondary so only starting back next week for Y10. I can vouch though, that of my classes, far more boys have been regularly engaging with learning (both sending work in response to PPTs etc and live lessons) than girls.

@keiratwiceknightly that's very interesting! Contrary to what might have been expected.

My first thought on why more boys back was because parents are finding it harder to have them at home?

Interesting. We have more girls back by quite a way.

In my y1 bubble there are 8 girls and 2 boys.

In my KW bubble 12 boys and 2 girls.

All of our Vulnerable students that have taken up the offer of a place are boys. Small numbers of KW children (secondary) are all boys from Y7.

Pretty even split on engagement for me though. But the boys definitely need a lot more coaching through tasks, so more involvement. Sometimes I want to scream READ THE INSTRUCTIONS at my screen!

KS1 has more boys back - but does have more boys anyway. KS2 is boy heavy usually but now we only have KS2 girls in for some reason.

Are there several boys with EHCPs? More boys have some types of SEN.

I'm glad there is a mix of responses. I was a bit concerned that boys were returning in much greater numbers from my small sample at work.

13 boys and 3 girls in ours

Of the 13 kids invited to be in my year 10 bubble 5 girls and 3 boys turned up.

Year 1 bubble of 9 - 5 boys and 4 girls

Ours is mixed, depending on where and which type of Bubble it is:

Reception/Year 1/Year 6: mainly girls back - we have 7 bubbles there and out of 65 children in total, 18 boys (half of these from Y6)

KW and vulnerable children (4 bubbles): majority in these groups are boys.

Not sure really why we have mostly girls back in R/1/6. I know a lot of our parents have really struggled to get their boys to do the home learning, and we do have a very high percentage of non-working parents so they didn't 'need' to send them I guess (and also our KW take up wasn't very high...those bubbles were majority vulnerable children).

Possibly they just didn't want to come back? Not sure we will ever really know to be honest. I am concerned about how they are doing though 😢