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Accessing school: Attendance
Focus: Effective and continuous
home/school liaison
Strategies:
- Employment of 0.5 Assistant Teacher
to monitor attendance and make home visits.
- Referral of parents/carers to support
agencies as appropriate.
- Encouraging parents to access schooling
for their children even when not all perceived expectations
can be met (lunches, uniforms, books, shoes).
- Nutrition program to encourage parents
and children to see the links between healthy lifestyle
and education.
- Emergency supplies of books, pens
and so on at school.
- Fostering community engagement through
parent forums (term basis) and monthly workshops.
Focus: Support in dealing with
social factors that may contribute to truancy
Strategies:
- Introduction of Life Education Program
for students.
- Promote the ‘You Can Do
It’ program in the school and in individual classrooms
to facilitate development of self-esteem and social and
organisational skills.
More
about ‘You Can Do It’…
- Offering alternative programs which
target students who are at risk of becoming involved in
anti-social behaviour and who may be subject to suspensions.
- Continued representation on inter-agency
Inhalant Action Group.
Focus: Continuous and strong
talk around ‘Strong and Smart’ behaviour
Strategies:
- Reports and chats about attendance
at weekly Parades.
- Parent and carer education program
about acceptable reasons for absence.
Focus: Whole class and individual
responsibility for attendance
Strategies:
- Individual teacher promotion and monitoring
of attendance.
- Whole school promotion for classes
with 100% attendance.
- Educational and healthy lifestyle
resources for acknowledging 100% attendance at the end
of each term and year.
- Reviewing attendance data on a class
by class basis.
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