Chris Abercrombie: PPTA talks rising attendance numbers from ERO

More students now think it's important to attend school everyday.

A new Education Review Office report shows students are taking school more seriously than three years ago, with six in ten attending regularly - back to pre-Covid levels.

It also found that 80 percent think education is important for their futures, and 75 percent think attending every day is important.

PPTA president Chris Abercrombie told Ryan Bridge having the government focused on attendance has helped, however the threat of punishments isn't working for everyone.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The ERRO, the Education Review Office, has given us some
good news this morning. School attendance back up to pre
COVID levels, sixty percent regularly showing up to class, which
is good. Eighty percent of kids think that school is
important for their future. Well, thank god. That's up to
Chris Abercrombie PPTA present with me this morning. Chris, good morning,
Good morning. Well that's good news. Is this parents making

(00:22):
them go? I see that parents are less comfortable with
them having time off in the survey too.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's been of everything, so it's sort of it's been
a team effort, has been schools sort of working really
hard to change attitude. It's been parents listening to what's
going on and making decisions. So there's been a real
team effort.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Do we say that this is David cmour and has
get tough and get the message out, maybe not get tough,
but get the message out there. Is that working?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I think definitely. Sort of having it as a focus
has helped. I mean school's have been working on this since,
you know, after COVID, but I mean having that extra
focus has definitely helped.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Do you think having the pun or the talk of
punishment helps too.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I think for certain groups, the sort of the legal
aspect of it definitely helps. But you know, I think
for those those hardcore truant students or families that that
sort of need their support, I don't think that's helping.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, I don't think so either. But hopefully the announcement
they made this week will do something about that. Hey,
how many days off have we got? Have kids got
for strikes and teacher ani days this year?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do we know? Wells from secondary we've had one strike
and a number of roster and home days and for
teacher any days, I think there's for this year to
approve by the government and two available to schools.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay, so if you add up, I mean, if if
you take your kids out of school for a week,
you're adding the teacher ani days, you add in the strikes,
you're adding the holidays, things start to look a bit grim.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah. So it was clearing the report too that their holidays,
kids taking time in holiday holidays in school time. We're
still an issory for schools. So I think, you know,
everyone agrees it's really important to be at school and
focused on what we and focused on getting their teaching
and learning happening.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
All right, brilliant, appreciate your time.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Chris.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Chris Abercrombie with us this morning from the PPT.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
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