Five marks, because five is what happens
Present, late, absent, excused and half day. A morning where a child arrived at 11 is recorded as what it was, rather than rounded into present or absent to fit the form.
skodle · Operate
Take a register in seconds, see which classes have not taken theirs, and spot the child whose attendance is drifting while there is still time to do something about it.
Mrs. Johnson
Teacher
Attendance
Registers, patterns and excusals
Registers today
94%
Taken in 12 of 13 classes
One register is still open. It is shown as missing, not counted as present.
Period 3 · marks
Present, late, absent, excused and half day. A morning where a child arrived at 11 is recorded as what it was, rather than rounded into present or absent to fit the form.
An open register is missing, not counted as full attendance. The difference matters at the point somebody asks whether a child was in school that day.
A single absence is noise. The same Monday missing four weeks running is a pattern, and it surfaces as one — beside the tutor who can ask about it.
A note from home attaches to the day it explains, so the register and the reason do not live in two places.