talkativesprout
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aye you say that but when the school refuses to teach those students in the most important year of the school life because of type footwear or hair colour or when the teachers union decides they want to hold the government to ransom for more pay, they dont seem to care how much they are impacting their futures.While it’s a little bit funny, it’s not funny that they’re in their most important school year to date. If they were in Year 8 where it doesn’t really matter them missing time from school all that much, fair enough; but in Year 11, every lesson is important.
2019 was the last proper year of exams before the years where there were adaptations due to Covid in 2020, 2021 and 2022. In 2023, all exams are back to how they were in 2019 and the DfE want to stage results to be lower than the Covid years, back to the level they were in 2019.
- Pupils who did not achieve grade 9 to 4 in English and maths GCSEs in 2019 had an overall absence rate of 8.8% over the key stage, compared with 5.2% among pupils who achieved a grade 4 and 3.7% among pupils who achieved grade 9 to 5 in both English and maths.
- Among pupils with no missed sessions over KS4, 83.7% achieved grades 9 to 4 in English and maths compared to 35.6% of pupils who were persistently absent.
Get in the classroom! What they’ve missed this week could be the difference between a 3 and a 4 next Summer, or between the grade they need to get into college and the grade below that.
Are you a teacher by any chance? :)