Does trip attendance contribute to statutory attendance or fill in lesson registers?

"Attendance recorded for school trips does not count towards statutory attendance and does not affect lesson registers. To ensure accurate attendance records, create planned absences for the confirmed students on the trip straight from the trip (see Creating planned absences for trip participants), or mark students manually in the class registers. If students are absent from the trip, update their attendance codes accordingly.

What if we have marked the trip as "Take Attendance?" = "Yes"?

When students are scheduled to be going on a school trip, you may have opted to take an attendance register for the trip. 

When this option is selected and the register for the trip is taken, it will not populate or override the lesson register marks for the standard scheduled lesson for the same day/time. This means you will need to fill in the attendance mark in registers to be able to record a statutory roll call mark for the student.

• If you don't open the registers, they will show as incomplete or unopened.
• If you open the registers, you'll have students marked with N codes.

How to manage attendance when students are on a trip?

When students are on a trip, we advise that you do one of two things to avoid registers being left incomplete:

1. Mark the students on the class register(s) with the appropriate attendance codes. This would normally be the 'V' code, but you can assign any other appropriate attendance code.
2. Create planned absences for the students on the trip. Open the trip, go to the Confirmed tab in Trip Participants, select the students and choose Bulk action > Create Planned Absences (see Creating planned absences for trip participants). Arbor then adds a planned absence covering the trip dates with the 'V'.

If any students are absent when they were supposed to be present for the trip, you would need to manually amend their attendance codes to reflect the reason for the absence. So you would need to mark them as absent for the trip and in the normal register. You can use the Bulk Edit Marks pages to do this.