Attendance

The register is a statutory record. SOS treats it like one.

Morning and afternoon registers on DfE’s codes, the office’s calls home, and the reports governors and local authorities ask for, all from the same marks.

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Registers

Quick for teachers. Exact for the record.

Teachers mark a group in seconds on any device. Every mark keeps its code, its session and who changed it, and nothing is ever filled in for them.

  • DfE’s attendance codes for both sessions, with late arrival times and notes.
  • Same as this morning copies the morning’s marks onto the afternoon register.
  • Office notes made after a call show on the teacher’s register and can’t be overwritten.
  • Lunch choices on the morning register, ready for the kitchen and the census.
  • Block registration marks a pupil or a group across a date range, or chosen days of the week, with a preview before anything is saved.
Desktop morning register for 7 Alder: 13 pupils, each with the last five days of marks, Present and Late buttons, a reason list and lunch choice. (opens the full-size picture)
The full register on a desktop, with each pupil's last five days beside today's mark.

Daily absences

Every pupil not yet accounted for, with a number to ring.

The office opens one page and sees who is late, off site or not in, with pupils marked N at the top and each contact’s numbers one tap away.

  • Record the call and change the code from the same row.
  • Each pupil’s last five days shown beside their name, so a pattern is plain.
  • Contacts with a court order or restriction are never dialled for you.
  • A warning, not a block, when a pupil’s run of suspension marks passes DfE’s limits.
Follow up an absence: ring home, change the mark and add a note.

Reports

The figures governors, Ofsted and the local authority ask for.

Sessions are counted the way DfE counts them: dual registration and sessions a pupil was not expected at are left out, and today’s session counts once a pupil is marked.

  • Persistent and severe absence, for pupils of compulsory school age, with the threshold you choose.
  • Term attendance, attendance by code, registrations by date, persistent lateness, holidays in term time and split days.
  • Your own pupil flags as filters, alongside SEN, pupil premium and the rest.
  • A pupil’s attendance record printed or saved as a PDF, ready for the local authority.
Persistent absence report for Year 8: 10 pupils at or below 90%, 102 sessions missed, each pupil with FSM, PP, EAL, EHCP and SEN flags and attendance so far. (opens the full-size picture)
Persistent absence, worked out for you, with the flags that matter beside each name.

When it matters most

An emergency roll-call that is always ready.

Everyone on roll today, by group, with this session’s marks, who is off site, and contacts for those who should be here. Print it as a short sheet for each crew in seconds.

1

Who should be here

Present, late and not yet marked, group by group, from this session’s register.

2

Who is away

Pupils off site on a trip or at another school are shown apart, so nobody is searched for in vain.

3

Who to call

Contacts for each pupil, with restricted contacts flagged and never offered to ring.

More of attendance

The day’s registers, added up.

Where the registers stand, what each mark means, and an emergency roll-call on any phone.

Dashboard rings: morning registers 246 of 246 marked, afternoon 245 of 246 with one not marked, and 71 of 86 free school meal pupils in for lunch. (opens the full-size picture)
See at a glance which registers are in, and who is not marked yet.
Attendance by code for September: 9,030 sessions registered, 86.68% marked present, and each absence code with its count and share. (opens the full-size picture)
See how much absence is illness, holiday or an approved activity.
Daily absences for Tuesday 29 September: present morning 221 of 242, afternoon 224 of 241, 38 absent sessions, and a count of every mark for each session. (opens the full-size picture)
One day's registers added up: who was in, who wasn't and what each mark means.
Emergency roll-call on a phone: 246 on roll, 223 present, 0 not marked yet, 23 absent or off site, with a print button. (opens the full-size picture)
Emergency roll-call on a phone: who should be on site right now.
Roll-call for group 7 Alder on a phone: each pupil marked present, with every contact's name, relationship and phone numbers. (opens the full-size picture)
Roll-call by group, with every family contact's number to hand.

See it for yourself

See your school’s day in SOS.

Tell us about your school and we will show you SOS working with your groups, your registers and your census.

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