1205 Strategic Goal - Attendance - Progress Report - 8 May 2012

Focus: Attendance

Strategic Aim: To create a community of Maori pupils fully engaged in education.

Annual Aim for 2012: To improve the percentage of pupils attending school.

Rationale:

· There is a direct relationship between attendance and achievement.

· Our 2011 figures showed we had an absence rate of over 17%. This means that on a normal day we have 39 pupils absent. The Ministry, however, had a much lower figure of 72%. We think this came from inaccurate roll marking.

Goal

MeasurableTarget. To finish 2012 with a whole-school attendance rate of 85% or better.

Mid year review

Term 1 attendance figures show attendance rate of 83.5%. While this is only slightly below our goal, we need to remember that term 1 is usually our best for attendance. Last year’s term2 figure was only 82% so we will need to cut absenteeism even further to reach our target.