Whole School Attendance

A Whole School Attendance approach ensures that all school staff work in partnership to improve school attendance.  Operating from the principle of aggregating marginal gains*, Whole School Attendance sets down a strategy and action plan to improve punctuality and school attendance.

*The theory that small improvements can lead to significant improvements when combined.

Whole School Attendance makes sure that school policy, strategy and action planning focus on the interrelationship between school attendance and attainment – this ensures all children and young people have every opportunity to fulfil their educational potential, wellbeing is cared for, and wider development is nurtured.

Overview
  • Provides a Whole School Attendance Policy, Strategy and Improvement Plan, one that is aligned to and delivers responsibilities detailed within the Department for Education (DfE) guidance, ‘Working together to improve school attendance’.
  • Ensures synergy with other school policies that focus on pupil/student behaviour, wellbeing, health and safety.
  • Defines, clarifies and confirms responsibilities to school attendance by all teaching and non-teaching staff, including governors and/or trustees.
  • Achieves effective understanding about school expectations for punctual and regular attendance, that is, by children, young people, parents and carers, staff, stakeholders and partners.
  • Systemically analyses and uses data to drive improvement.
  • Ensures the community at large (e.g. Social Care, Police, Health and the Voluntary Sector) understand their responsibilities to improving school attendance.

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