Strategies

**Strategies which have successfully improve student attendance include:

Whole-school / Community • communicating clearly to parents regarding attendance expectations • informing parents about current research that links attendance with student achievement levels and on the importance of being at school and on time every day • providing information to parents on the sequential nature of lessons and learning and how their child’s learning can be severely disrupted if they miss crucial learning points • identifying trends for high absence days and reporting absence rates through the school newsletter

Classroom / Advocate / Form teacher • regularly monitoring student attendance data including weekly analysis and identification of at risk students • ensuring a strong welfare and supportive approach is provided for families who are experiencing difficulties • providing a stimulating and exciting classroom environment • providing a wide range of experiences designed to excite and enthuse students • insisting on notes to explain all absences • promoting upcoming activities and classroom programs • rewarding students who improve their attendance rates over time

Administration • using formal letters and follow-up phone calls to contact parents of children with ongoing attendance issues • making phone calls to parents after A - Team has been marked and if their child was absent, and seeking a verbal reason and reminding them as to the importance of the child being at school • using CASES21 to generate absence reports on a monthly bases • formally reporting absences on mid and end of year written reports ** **• A term award, for example a sausage sizzle, is provided for students who have** ** attended each school day **

**What strategies are in place at your school? Share these strategies using the** **discussion board below**.

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Source It's not OK to be away, 2005 [|It's Not OK to be Away]



