Ofsted ‘will grade pupil attendance for the first time’ in school ratings revamp following headteacher’s suicide [Video]

17:39 EDT 25 Oct 2024, updated 18:30 EDT 25 Oct 2024

Pupil attendance will be graded by Ofsted for the first time under new plans to shake-up the way schools are judged. 

One-word ratings are set to be replaced by a scorecard containing ten separate grades based on ‘key areas’, The Telegraph has reported. 

Attendance will be one of these new performance ratings, as well as how well schools instill British values and prepare children for the outside world.

Other key areas will include the content of the school’s curriculum and the quality of teaching. 

Labour announced back in September it would scrap one-word Ofsted judgements with immediate effect following the tragic death of Ruth Perry. 

The headteacher took her own life after an inspection downgraded her primary school in Caversham, Reading, from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’ with a coroner concluding that it had contributed to her death.