4 No Welsh is used or taught. Pupils with a statement of The number of pupils in this class with SEN statements. SEN Number of teaching staff Include nursing and ancillary staff if they are taking the class in charge of the class; Exclude teachers in the class wholly or mainly to provide support to individual pupils. Number of support staff Include nursing and ancillary staff not assisting the main included above. Support staff who are teacher(s) present in a class specifically for one-to-one work are not to be included in this count of support staff in the class. Pupils Enter the number of pupils in the class who are registered on roll at the school. Include dually registered pupils. Include pupils who were absent on enumeration day. Pupils from other schools Enter the number of pupils in the class who are not registered on roll at the school. Section 7: Validation and error correction 7.1 Your software will provide a detailed report of validation errors and queries in your return. An is the presence of an illegal character or “error” value in a data item, or a logical inconsistency between data items or between different aspects of the return. An error inevitably reflects some inaccuracy in or omission from the return. are of two kinds: 7.2 “Queries” they may relate to an unusual feature of the data (for example that no pupils at all are shown as having special needs), which suggests, but does not prove, the presence of some inaccuracy or omission; they may be used as a prompt in areas where there seems a particularly high risk of omissions occurring free school meal – entitlement, for example. Some schools may not have any pupils on roll entitled to free school meals, but these are exceptions and the software will query such cases. Queries of either kind need to be investigated to establish whether or not there is an inaccuracy or omission, although the conclusion may be that the data are in fact correct.
4 No Welsh is used or taught. Pupils with a statement of SEN The number of pupils in this class with SEN statements. Number of teaching staff taking the class Include nursing and ancillary staff if they are in charge of the class; Exclude teachers in the class wholly or mainly to provide support to individual pupils. Number of support staff assisting the main teacher(s) Include nursing and ancillary staff not included above. Support staff who are present in a class specifically for one-to-one work are not to be included in this count of support staff in the class. Pupils Enter the number of pupils in the class who are registered on roll at the school. Include dually registered pupils. Include pupils who were absent on enumeration day. Pupils from other schools Enter the number of pupils in the class who are not registered on roll at the school. Section 7: Validation and error correction 7.1 Your software will provide a detailed report of validation errors and queries in your return. An “error” is the presence of an illegal character or value in a data item, or a logical inconsistency between data items or between different aspects of the return. An error inevitably reflects some inaccuracy in or omission from the return. 7.2 “Queries” are of two kinds: they may relate to an unusual feature of the data (for example that no pupils at all are shown as having special needs), which suggests, but does not prove, the presence of some inaccuracy or omission; they may be used as a prompt in areas where there seems a particularly high risk of omissions occurring – free school meal entitlement, for example. Some schools may not have any pupils on roll entitled to free school meals, but these are exceptions and the software will query such cases. Queries of either kind need to be investigated to establish whether or not there is an inaccuracy or omission, although the conclusion may be that the data are in fact correct.
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