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The Regents Review Autumn 2025

GENERAL NEWS

• Commitment to your learning • Respect for yourself and those around you • Hard work even when you don’t feel like it Every student has the ability to change their path, turn things around and prove what they’re

truly capable of. Whether it’s improving attendance, boosting achievement points, or showing a more positive attitude in lessons, 2026 can be the year you transform your journey. So as we head into the new year, remember our key message: minimum attendance improvement target – part of an urgent drive to restore absence to pre-pandemic levels, as part of it’s ‘plan for change’. Here at RPCC, we increased our attendance by 2.9% - but were still below the national average. However, with 1 in 3 schools failing to improve, the Department for Education has set out a roadmap for every school to double down on it’s efforts to support students back to class, as research shows the importance of every day in school for children’s opportunity in life and future earnings. Every school will be issued with AI-powered minimum attendance improvement targets, to ensure children are in school and ready to achieve. The attendance baseline improvement expectation (ABIE) will be based on schools’ circumstances - including location, students needs

bounce back. Show your ‘bounce back-ability’. Your story isn’t written yet - you decide what happens next.

Attendance Matters

and deprivation. The department is also using AI and data to give more support to schools to meet the minimum expectations, by linking them up with high performing schools with similar circumstances. These top schools will be identified within each school’s ABIE report. This comes alongside 36 new attendance and behaviour hubs, which will offer direct one-to one support reaching tens of thousands of students across hundreds of schools, as wider sharing of best practice through events and open days. Mr Whatley has already visited one of these hubs and is continuing to work with various schools to identify how we can improve our attendance. How Attendance Impacts Grades Here is an example of how poor attendance impacts grades for the same student (based upon real GCSE analysis):

At RPCC we expect students to attend every lesson, every day. Good attendance is important because: • Statistics show a significant, direct link between under achievement and absence below 95% (absence of 10 school days or 20 sessions). • Regular attenders make better progress, both socially and academically. • Regular attenders find school routines enable them to build relationships, succeed and enjoy school life. • Regular attenders find learning more satisfying. • Regular attenders have greater success transferring from primary to secondary

school and into further education and higher education, employment or training.

Please visit www. regentsparkcollege.org.uk/ attendance/ for all your attendance needs or queries. Government’s Plan The Education Secretary has set every school an individual

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