Best Practice

Case study: Reducing lateness to lessons

When Marple Hall School reviewed lateness levels, they found 883 hours of teaching had been missed in one year due to students not arriving in class on time. Rhian Davies explains how they tackled this

According to Ofsted’s Below the Radar report (September 2014), almost half of the teachers surveyed said that low-level disruption was a major problem in their classroom, having a medium or high impact on learning.

I agree with these findings and at Marple Hall we feel that to maximise student progress, issues such as punctuality, talking in class at the wrong time, or forgetting books or homework need to be addressed. If left, these issues can have a significant effect on how ready students are for learning.

Back in 2010, the equivalent to 35 weeks of teaching was being missed through students not turning up to lessons on time at Marple Hall School.

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