Behaviour and attendance: Reducing holidays in term time
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- 1 Behaviour and attendance: Reducing holidays in term time
- 2 Key factors that motivated the intervention
- 3 Brief description of the intervention
- 4 Outcomes
- 5 Future plans
Grange Comprehensive School, Halton, Cheshire
Focus of case study
To show how specific interventions in 2006–07 reduced absence due to holidays in term time.
School profile
- The school is larger than average and serves an area with twice the level of social and economic disadvantage found nationally.
- The proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) is above average.
- The great majority of pupils are White British. Few pupils are of minority ethnic heritage.
- A few pupils speak English as an additional language (EAL).
- Over one-third of pupils have learning difficulties and/or disabilities and the number of pupils with statements of special educational need is three times the average.
- A special unit caters for the education of a small number of pupils who have behavioural, emotional or social difficulties.
- The school hosts a City Learning Centre on its site.
- The school holds a number of awards, including Sport England’s Sportsmark award, the Artsmark Gold award and the Financial Management Standard in Education award.
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