Actions (what we will do) | What we have done | Outcomes (what we expect to happen) | What has happened |
Ensure the electronic attendance registers are marked with 100% regularity by · Having someone check on e.tap each morning and afternoon and send a reminder if the roll is not marked. · Ensure rolls are marked when relievers are employed. · Organise a system to cover trips, camps etc | · Each morning and afternoon either Kohi or Graeme check to see who has and who hasn’t marked the roll. A message is sent to the class. · Relievers send in a paper roll and it is transferred to eTap by Kohi · We haven’t had any overnight trips yet. | 100% accuracy in electronic roll marking. | · It is now rare for a class to be unmarked in the morning although most afternoons we pick up one or two classes · The end of term summary report showed no unmarked rolls at the end of term. |
More interesting programmes · Advertise events such as: Breakfast in schools, lunchtime sports programmes and music club. · Share the exciting things that are happening in classrooms via the school newsletter and on the school website. | · Parents have been informed of breakfast club, gardening club, music club. · The school is paying the fees for children wishing to play Saturday hockey or netball. · Our school has appeared in the local paper at least three times this term for projects of interest. (gardening, milk in schools and tryathalon) | Children will attend school more often because they are aware of programmes being offered Whanau will be kept informed of these programmes and volunteer to come and help | · Attendance has improved over term 1 2011. · Parents have volunteered to help out with sports teams and sports related activities by coaching, supervising or transporting. |
Whanau feeling welcome and becoming involved · Letting whanau know about justified and unjustified reasons for not attending school · Provide food, raincoats and shoes for whanau · Provide a warm comfortable school environment | · Breakfast of Weetbix and warm milk is provided 5 days a week from 8:15 until 8:45. · Raincoats have been provided to pupils who didn’t get one last year. · Feet have been measured and shoes ordered for a selected group of children. | Children will come to school in the wet, the cold and when they are hungry | · On most mornings about 15 pupils have breakfast. (more if it is cold and raining). · Plans are in place to also provide hot Milo in the winter terms. · Of the ten children who have breakfast most regularly, all but 2 have attendance rates of over 90% with one on 100%. · All “breakfast” children except for one have less absenteeism than in 2011 · Our best results include “breakfast” pupils whose absenteeism has moved from: o 12% to 0% o 17% to 7% o 18% to 5% o 14% to 2% |
By 10 every morning the administration officer will phone whanau of children who are away. Principal to follow up recidivist whanau and utilise Social Worker in Schools if appropriate | Kohi phones parents of pupils who are absent as early as possible. Usually by 10:30 | Whanau who have a history of poor attendance will start sending their children to school Whanau will feel supported by the SWIS | We now contact Ngapuhi Iwi Social Services when we have truancy concerns as they have the contract. 6 families referred to date. |
The system of awarding purple cards each week to pupils who have attended every day will continue. 6 pupils have their cards drawn from the box at assembly and receive a Duffy book. Children with 99-100% attendance over a term will be acknowledged through the end of term assembly and the school newsletter. | · Purple cards continue to be drawn from the box at assembly. · 100% attendees were acknowledged through the school newsletter and at the final assembly. | Pupils who attend regularly will be acknowledged and held up as role models. | · As not all teachers remember to put the cards in, it might be better to create a list through eTap although it would be time consuming for one person to write out the purple cards. · 20 pupils had 100% attendance in term 1. |