Regents Review Summer 2025

The Regents Review Summer 2025

GENERAL NEWS

for their final exams next summer. Remember 90% attendance = • 10% absence • Classified by the government as “persistent absence” • A day off every 2 weeks • A month off school each year • 114 missed lessons Please ensure that wherever possible, your child comes into school. The school Welfare Officer, will help determine if they are not fit to stay in school and can monitor students as necessary. If you are unsure, please check out this NHS Guidance. nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/ Remember, if students aren’t in school – they’re missing out!

What we are doing to help As well as our usual breakfast club to support students coming in on time, we have started a new prize draw. For each week a student has 100% attendance, they will automatically be entered into a prize draw. There is a prize for a student in each year group, every term. Just for coming in as they are supposed to! Please do not worry if your child has an ongoing medical need or alternative provision – we’ve thought of that as well. Whilst you are now being shown the official attendance figures each week (according to what we have to report to the DfE), our pastoral team are monitoring attendance as well and entering everyone we feel is attending all they can, so no one misses out if they are doing what is expected. As we’re nearly at the end of another term (and academic year), the next set of winners will be drawn soon! How Are We Doing with Attendance? Whilst we are doing better than the Southampton average, when compared to the national picture (or even our own targets), we are not doing as well as we could be for attendance. Unfortunately, our attendance has also dropped a little this term, compared to our last update. We Need Your Help! When compared to other Southampton schools, we have fewer appointments during school time (thank you), but our students still appear to be having more days off due to illness than the Southampton average. Our Year 10 attendance is obviously a concern, as they are now our oldest year group and gearing up

Curriculum at Regents Park As we move towards the end of term, preparations are already well underway for the September return. Curriculum is key to this, as it underpins our timetable, staffing and student options. Curriculum Leaders use this time of year to reflect on and review their curriculum maps – what is being taught, how and when. Much of the national conversation at the moment, is about KS3 and whether this contains enough rigour and challenge, so that students are properly prepared for KS4 studies when they get to Year 10. This is indeed something which we have been discussing and a continued review of KS3 is taking place. Recent changes in academisation mean that there are high quality ‘schemes of learning’ and resources which can be purchased. Often these have been produced by a team of subject specialists, working solely on ensuring that their curriculum is the best,

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