Looking to boost key messages about attendance to parents, carers, families and the community? This digital download bundle of eight attendance posters is an ideal way to remind everyone about the importance of high levels of attendance, including messages around taking holidays in term time, how lateness impacts attendance and what to do if a family is struggling with supporting their child's attendance. Each poster is in PDF format, so can be printed, sent as part of your regular newsletters and communication, or even displayed on your school website to promote good school attendance. 

Please note this is a digital download - you won't receive physical copies of the posters. These posters are also available as part of much more comprehensive pack to support school leaders with attendance: Attendance Strategy, Monitoring and Training Pack

Including the most up-to-date 2026 information from the Working Together to Improve School Attendance guidance, this pack provides you with easy-to-digest guidance, editable templates, multiple training PowerPoints and eye-catching attendance posters to give you a full starting package for how to tackle pupil absence and improve attendance levels.

Want to know what's inside the pack? View a preview version of the guidance and accompanying templates, posters and presentations!

Wanting to help your staff to understand the role they play in reducing pupil absence by sharing details from the most up-to-date version on Working Together to Improve Attendance? This training bundle, which is perfect for INSETs, staff meetings and twilights, contains engaging and collaborative training materials plus real-life attendance scenarios to meet your attendance CPD needs. 

🔒 Fully aligned to the final Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

New for 2025, strengthen attendance and behaviour across your school with this practical audit pack for headteachers, SLT, attendance and behaviour leads and pastoral teams. Aligned with Ofsted's 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, it helps you evaluate attendance systems, behaviour culture, policies and practice with confidence and clarity.

☑️ Comprehensive 52-page attendance and behaviour audit document with structured prompts across eight key themes: strategic leadership of attendance and behaviour, attendance systems and support, behaviour culture, routines and expectations, tackling bullying and ensuring safety, escalation and staff support, attitudes to learning, inclusive approaches to attendance and behaviour, and evaluating impact and continuous improvement

☑️ Complete audit toolkit includes 22-page guidance document covering attendance and behaviour expectations and how to audit effectively, action plan template, attendance and behaviour evidence checklist, staff, pupil and parent question bank, and a one-page SLT/governor summary

☑️ Supports comprehensive review of attendance strategies, behaviour management approaches, anti-bullying practice, pastoral support systems and inclusive provision with confidence and clarity

☑️ Fully editable templates allow you to adapt all materials for your school's specific context and priorities

Ideal for headteachers, SLT, attendance and behaviour leads and anyone reviewing attendance and behaviour to strengthen school culture, conduct a whole-school audit or prepare for an Ofsted inspection.

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👉 This audit pack is part of our Complete School Leadership Audit Set, which includes eleven audits in one purchase, saving you money whilst ensuring you can evaluate your entire school provision across all Ofsted evaluation areas plus plus three essential good practice audits.

Wondering how you can support individual pupils with their attendance, including identifying barriers, addressing push and pull factors and creating attendance intervention and reintegration plans? This bundle, ideal for attendance champions, mangers, leads and co-ordinators, supports you to help reduce persistent absenteeism and improve student attendance.

New for 2025, strengthen your school’s approach to attendance with this updated audit pack. Designed for leaders overseeing attendance strategy and practice, it guides a clear, honest review of what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus next.

From strategic leadership and inclusive practice to working with families and evaluating impact, each section helps you unpick the barriers behind absence and shape a culture of belonging and high expectations. Built around Ofsted’s draft 2025 toolkit and the DfE’s Working Together to Improve Attendance guidance, it gives you confidence that your approach is robust and responsive. All buyers will receive a free update when Ofsted publish their final inspection toolkit in September so that the audit paperwork is fully aligned with the final framework.

☑️ Editable 20-page audit exploring five themes: leadership and culture, inclusive practice, partnership working, promoting belonging, and continuous improvement – all with clear reflection prompts throughout

☑️ Practical extras: whole-school attendance strategy template with guiding prompts, editable attendance letter templates for different scenarios, and a one-page SLT and governor summary to share findings clearly

☑️ Includes an action plan template, document checklist and staff, pupil and parent question bank to build a complete picture of strengths and priorities

Whether you’re an attendance officer, attendance champion, headteacher, deputy, assistant head, school business manager or pastoral leader, this pack helps you lead attendance work confidently and prepare for inspection with clarity and purpose.

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👉 The contents of this pack can also be found in our full Attendance Strategy, Monitoring and Training Pack

Looking to identify the skills and development points of your school's attendance champion, attendance co-ordinator, attendance lead or attendance officer? Or perhaps you're a senior attendance champion who wants to explore their role-specific strengths and weaknesses as part of ongoing development or when looking for a new role. No matter the situation, this handy pack contains exactly what you need to uncover strengths and plan for professional development & growth.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your attendance link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen attendance governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance Questions for Governors and Trustees – 12 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the attendance link governor and key school staff, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ Attendance Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering attendance data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Attendance Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the attendance governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

Are you stepping into the role of Attendance Lead but feeling unsure where to begin or how to get a grip on everything at once? Firstly, congratulations! And secondly, you're in exactly the right place – this free Honeyguide checklist is here to support your thinking from the very first day.

As an Attendance Lead, you're responsible for one of the most complex and data-driven challenges in school leadership – one that cuts across safeguarding, SEND, pastoral care, family engagement and school improvement all at the same time. That can feel like a lot, especially at the start! This checklist breaks it down into clear, manageable tasks across your first few weeks, your first half-term and your first full term, so you can approach the role with confidence and clarity.

Whether you're a newly appointed Attendance Lead or Attendance Champion, stepping up from a pastoral or admin role, or taking over from a previous postholder mid-year, this checklist will help you hit the ground running. Ideal for new Attendance Leads, Attendance Champions, Senior Attendance Champions and anyone with combined attendance and pastoral responsibilities.