Teaching and Learning

Attendance Summary 2025

At the beginning of the year we set all students at Epping Boys across all six year groups the goal of achieving 95+% attendance over the course of the year.

I am pleased to announce that at the time of writing this article we have a total of 691 students in the school who have achieved this goal for 2025. Well done boys!

This includes: Year 7: 152 students, Year 8: 123 students, Year 9: 88 students, Year 10: 112 students. Year 11: 100 students, Year 12: 116 students.

Students achieving 100% each term:

Students achieving 100% attendance for the whole year:

There were 53 students who did not miss a single day, nor were they late or left early, not even once throughout the year. These students came from the following year groups:

Year 7: 15 students, Year 8: 11 students, Year 9: 9 students, Year 10: 5 students, Year 11: 7 students, Year 12: 12 students. Well done on your dedication and diligence boys!

Best attendance weeks this year: T4, Week 4: 95.45%, 2nd: T1, Week 2: 95.40%

Highest attending term: Term 4, 2025.

Highest attending year group: 1st: Year 7: 93.76%, 2nd: Year 11, 3rd: Year 8.

Highest attending classes per year group: 

Year 7: 1st 7E, 2nd: 7P, 3rd: 7V. 

Year 8: 1st: 8E, 2nd: 8R, 3rd: 80

Year 9: 1st: 9RCIE, 9RC1

Year 10: 1st: 10RC8, 2ND: 10RC7

Year 11: 1st: 11CAFE, 2nd: 11RC5, 3rd: 11RC4

Year 12: 1ST: 12Prefects, 2nd: 12RC1

Best attending classes overall in 2025: 1st: 7E: 96.61%, 2nd: 12Prefects: 96.42%, 3rd: 11CAFE: 96.10%, 4th: 7P: 96%

These results were the highest overall attendance results at the school since 2021.

We hope to build on these results in 2026.Thanks to staff students and carers for your support of our attendance improvement program in 2025.

Jonathan Bailey 

Head Teacher Teaching and Learning

In Year 10 psychology: a substantial part of the coursework is an exploration of ethical research practices and basic statistics within the completion of a substantial personal research project. In these projects, Year 10 engaged in formulating a research question or hypothesis, designing a study, collecting and analysing data, and presenting their findings.

These presentations occurred in late November with the Year 9 Psychology class as their audience. It was wonderful to see how the boys had developed such a broad range of skills through completing this project. As well as their speeches on the day, they had summarised key information into a slideshow and engaged in a viva voce with Year 9 as their questioners - quite a high order task, which many of them passed with flying colours. Consequently, Year 9 received an excellent preview of their task next year, allowing them to begin to consider which areas of psychometric research interest them and how they might be able to conduct their own small scale projects.

 

 

 

Alison Liard

Head Teacher Teaching and Learning