Description
How to Achieve Exceptional Attendance and Behaviour
The new Ofsted framework places sharper focus than ever on attendance, behaviour, and attitudes — not as separate areas, but as cornerstones of a strong, inclusive school culture.
Inspectors now look for evidence of strategic leadership, inclusive practice, and real impact — not just policies and systems. That’s why we’ve developed our latest leadership training:
A practical, research-informed course to help schools build a culture of consistency, ambition, and belonging.
This powerful session breaks down Ofsted’s latest judgement criteria into clear, actionable strategies that help schools move from “effective” to “exceptional.”
You Will Learn How To:
🔹 Lead with Strategy and Clarity
- Develop a whole-school approach rooted in high expectations, inclusion, and consistency.
- Understand your pupils, their context, and the barriers they face — and remove those barriers through strategic leadership.
- Design policies that are lived daily by staff and pupils, not just written.
🔹 Transform Attendance Practice
- Prioritise attendance and punctuality for every group — especially disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND or social care involvement.
- Use detailed data and daily processes to identify patterns, intervene early, and sustain improvement.
- Communicate expectations clearly and confidently to pupils, parents, and external partners.
- Work collaboratively with local authorities, virtual schools, and health agencies to address persistent and severe absence.
🔹 Establish Exceptional Behaviour Culture
- Create a calm, safe, respectful environment where pupils want to attend and learn.
- Ensure routines, relationships, and expectations are explicitly taught and modelled.
- Equip all staff with the confidence to challenge low-level disruption consistently and fairly.
- Tackle bullying, prejudice, or child-on-child abuse swiftly and effectively through clear systems and restorative practice.
🔹 Promote Positive Attitudes to Learning
- Build pupils’ resilience, motivation, and independence.
- Foster pride in learning and behaviour through celebration, relationships, and recognition.
- Develop teaching that actively supports focus, effort, and cooperation.
🔹 Ensure Inclusive Approaches and High Expectations for All
- Adapt behaviour systems appropriately for pupils with SEND, disadvantage, or social care involvement.
- Maintain ambition for every learner while using evidence-based interventions and short-term support plans.
- Monitor impact rigorously — ensuring attendance, behaviour, and learning attitudes improve over time.
Why This Course Matters
Ofsted inspectors will ask:
“How do leaders create and sustain a culture where every pupil behaves well, attends regularly, and feels safe, respected, and included?”
This course gives you the evidence, clarity, and confidence to answer that — and to demonstrate it in practice.
