Covid is still having a 'dreadful' impact on schools and heads fear it may impact the exam season.
The "dreadful" impact of Covid on schools is casting doubt on fairness for exam pupils, headteachers have warned.
"Attendance at the moment is about 85%, which is just below the national figure for Wales but on top of that it's the absence of staff."Ms Harrison suspects some have stopped taking twice-weekly rapid Covid tests because they're afraid of missing school and revision sessions. And one teaching union said its members have similar concerns about the impact of absences on preparations for A-levels.
Overall, she believed it was "unfair" for exams to go ahead because pupils in lower income areas had suffered from missing so much school.Less content would be covered in exams and there would be more generous grading than in a normal year, chief executive Philip Blaker said. Even after schools fully reopened following lockdowns, attendance remained much lower than at pre-pandemic levels.And in this academic year 83,255 pupils have missed between five-and-a-half and 10 days.
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