Highland secondary schools attendance survey

At the November 2024 Education Committee, the Council reported a review of the Highland Raising Attainment Strategy. Part of that review involves work around better understanding attendance challenges and the reasons for repeat absence from school. Two surveys are being distributed to secondary schools across Highland for either pupils or parent/carers who struggle with regular school attendance to complete the short survey. The survey is anonymous and will run from Monday 24 February until Friday 14 March 2025.

The secondary surveys for both parents and pupils are available here:

Parent survey on attendance: https://forms.office.com/e/vYZvATHXtC

Pupil survey on attendance : https://forms.office.com/e/QgeMqY21UT

Education Committee Chair, Cllr John Finlayson said: “Highland’s Raising Attainment Strategy includes engaging with pupils and parents/carers through the GIRFEC agenda, as part of that work a survey targetted at secondary stage pupils has been distributed to all secondary schools across Highland, and we ask pupils or the parents/carers of children who struggle attending secondary school on a regular basis to take part in the survey.

“Findings from the survey will be collated to assist our approaches to raise attainment, support health and wellbeing of learners and to help close the poverty related attainment gap.”