School Attendance

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Horeke School Attendance Management Plan Process:

Our process of monitoring Students Attendance…

1. Check Etap for daily attendance loaded by the Principal.
2. The principal will send a standard text to all absent child/children to parents/caregivers asking for the response of the absent child/children on a daily account..
3. After 3 days of child/children absence without contact to the Principal  or office ,  he will follow up with those families with a phone call.
4. Child/Children absent for more than 5 days  will have a follow up call for  principal
5. Child/Children who have been absent for 10 days , followed by a phone call asking to meet with the Principal at Horeke School.
6. Book a meeting with families.

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Attendance Management Plan and supporting STAR procedures
Strategic Priorities
 Regular school attendance is important for students to achieve their educational potential.  The government target is that 80% of students will be regularly attending school by 2030.

Our School currently has 66% regular attendance and a target of lifting regular attendance to 90% by the end of 2026.
 Board responsibilities
 The board is responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the school’s students attend the school when it is open for instruction.

The board will comply with the [provisions in the legislation in relation to student attendance by:

Having a commitment to support students and return to regular attendance
Having processes and procedures in place to support a Stepped Attendance Response to student absence that uses data-based thresholds to identify students
Recording all absences, and responding accordingly
Having an effective method in place for identifying and monitoring student absence, including identifying patterns and barriers to student attendance
Publishing this attendance management plan on the school website.
Principal responsibilities
 The principal is responsible for:

Developing and implementing a stepped attendance response aligned with the thresholds to support student attendance
Ensure the student absence is investigated, responded too and actions taken recorded aligned with the thresholds
Ensure all students, whanau and staff understand the processes and procedures that support student attendance.
Report to the board on any trends, barriers to attendance and interventions being used to support student attendance
Attendance Management Procedure - Stepped Attendance Response 

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The school Principal/office receives attendance information and are responsible for checking and updating attendance information (e.g. due to students arriving late or going home early). The principal/office follow up absences, and monitors for changes or trends in student attendance. 

The Ministry of Education collects attendance data from the school, including:

the proportion of students who attend regularly
students with five or more full days of unjustified absence in a term
absences remaining unexplained at the end of each week.
Student absences

Whanau are expected to notify the school as soon as possible (before or during the school day) if their child will be absent. A reason for absence must be provided no later than the end of the school week. Horeke School will contact whanau directly if no explanation is provided for student absence.

Under Section 45, a Principal may exempt a student from attendance for no more than five consecutive days. This is the basis for justified absences: J, M.

Under Section 53 a school board can approve off site learning. This is the basis for presence code Q.

If a student does not arrive at school or goes missing during the day (including from an EOTC event), we check there are no errors in how attendance information was recorded or updated (e.g. if a student has gone home due to illness). If necessary, we follow up with whanau and/or emergency contacts. 

 

Legislative compliance/ Legislation
 Insert here any relevant legislation this plan supports

Education and Training Act 2020

Education Attendance rules

Education Attendance Management Plan regulations 

Attendance Management Procedure- Stepped Attendance Response 

Horeke School attendance plan is designed to lift attendance  by:

Setting clear expectations with tamariki, whanau and caregivers

Having positive relationships with whanau and caregivers by promoting school values

Informing tamariki of their attendance rate weekly.

Incentivising tamariki to come to school
Parent/Whanau responsibilities:

 To promote the value of education to their  tamariki.

 To send their tamariki to school everyday.

To feel free to come to Horeke school

To inform Horeke School on the day when their /child or children are absent.

To update pupil details when they change.
School responsibilities

 

Having positive relationships with whanau and caregivers by promoting school values.

Communicate regularly with parents through phonecalls newsletters and meetings

Offer support and strategies  to whanau to help get their tamariki to kura

Adhere to  govt policies regarding attendance.  

Incentivise attendance to encourage the tamariki to come to kura.

Regular weekly updates to tamariki about their attendance rate.