Hold a student back a year

This article guides how to hold a student back a year, detailing the process for moving students to the correct registration form and year group when they need to repeat a year. It includes specific examples and steps for adjusting registration forms linked to different year groups. If you instead want to see how to not promote nursery students into reception, see this article: How to keep students in Nursery when promoting year groups

The student is repeating the year

If the student is repeating the last year, in a registration form linked to the year group, you can follow the instructions in this article to move them back: Students are in the wrong year group or registration form for next year

For example, if a student was in Year 9, registration form 9AT last year, and next year they will be in Year 9, registration form 9ER.

The student will be in the same year as last year, but a registration form linked to a different year group

For example, if a student was in Year 9, registration form 9AT last year, and next year they will be in Year 10, registration form 9ER. In this case, you will need to change the year groups that the registration form is linked with before you can move the student.

Go to Students > Enrolment > Registration Forms and click on the relevant Registration Form. In the Year Groups section, add the year group.

You can then move the student by following these instructions: A student is enrolled into the wrong year group