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Dear Headteachers across the country,

I feel I have to address you, I’m curious you see, curious to find the reason behind your ambition to reward those perfect attendance marks. I can only assume your thought process is to encourage children to attend school more often, I do of course agree attendance should be encouraged but who are you encouraging? The children you are rewarding do not hold the responsibility to ensure they meet the criteria.

Is your aim to encourage sick children to attend school regardless? Is your aim to further exclude children who already feel that way? Is your aim to increase anxiety levels amongst the young and vulnerable? I presume it is not, however, in your strive for percentages, have you considered what you are sacrificing?

When you were signing off those certificates, did your mind flash to the child who will sit in the back of your assembly hall, silently wiping their tears knowing that once again their hospital trip has robbed them of what their peers have?

When you were on the phone, stating how many children will be attending the attendance reward trip, did you wonder how those children, who have already missed so much, would feel knowing they were not included?

Do you ever think about the child crying in pain, just from forcing their school shoes on, to try their best to be there?

Do you ever think about the child who doesn’t understand why they are excluded because their parents don’t take them to school each day?

Do you consider how the child riddled with anxiety feels knowing, their mind must be a second priority if they want to be included?

Head teachers across the country, I know you mean well. I know you’re under pressure, I know you want your students to be present, to be educated and to achieve, but, we want our children to be healthy, mentally and physically, we want our children to feel included and appreciated.

By rewarding attendance, you are indirectly teaching those who have no choice that their efforts will never be good enough.

If you truly want what’s best for your students, be the exception until it becomes the normal. Remove attendance rewards from your school system and watch how your school thrives on inclusion.

You are in a position to create change, you have the ability to do what’s right. We know you care, but actions speak louder than words.

- Niamh Hocking
Creator of Now4Later

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SEN Jigsaw Conference 2019 was once again a wonderful success and we were please to welcome parents and education professionals from all over the country. John Hicks and I would like to thank you once...

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The BDA welcomes plans to scrap qualified teacher status skills tests.

Schools Week reports the government plans to end the numeracy and literacy skills entry tests that prospective teachers must pass to start training. These are tests the British Dyslexia Association has long felt disproportionally disadvantages #dyslexic candidates and that more appropriate ways could be found to measure relevant numeracy and literacy skills.

“We welcome the news that instead government could allow initial teacher training providers to use their own judgment to assess candidates’ numeracy and literacy skills."

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