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Behaviour and attendance: The impact of improved systems for managing, monitoring, communicating and celebrating attendance

Case Study of Poltair Community School and Sports College, a mixed comprehensive school which serves St Austell, Cornwall. This case study focuses on the impact of improved systems for managing, monitoring, communicating and celebrating attendance.

Intervention

Description of the intervention involved in improving systems for managing, monitoring, communicating and celebrating attendance at Polstair Community School, a mixed comprehensive in St Austell, Cornwall.
Outcomes and future plans

An overview of the outcomes of the intervention involved in improving systems for managing, monitoring, communicating and celebrating attendance at Polstair Community School, a mixed comprehensive in St Austell, Cornwall.

Behaviour and Attendance: Reducing persistent absence

Case study focusing on a coordinated approach to improving attendance by raising whole-school awareness and ensuring individual responsibility for reducing levels of persistent absence. From Kirklees LA and Community Science College at Thornhill.

Actions and outcome

Outline of the outcomes achieved and how the school intends to maintain its success and improve other areas of concern.

Behaviour and attendance: Impact of a fast track prosecution pilot

Profile of a school featuring in a case study assessing the impact of a fast track prosecution pilot on a group of year 10 students whose absence was greater than 20 per cent.

Intervention

Description of the intervention involved in the impact of a fast track prosecution pilot on a group of Year 10 students whose absence was greater than 20 per cent, including: attendance targets were agreed with each pupil and parents; court dates were booked; parents reminded that if targets were met court cases could be withdrawn.
Outcomes and future plans

Overview of the outcomes and future plans from a fast track prosecution pilot on a group of Year 10 students whose absence was greater than 20 per cent, including use of fast track in other secondary schools across the county to help promote early intervention where robust recording systems exist.

Behaviour and attendance: Interventions raise school Ofsted grade

Introduction to show how a structured range of interventions can move a school from satisfactory to good in improving behaviour and attendance at Beacon Hill High School, Blackpool. Links to key factors, intervention, outcomes and future plans.

Key factors that motivated the intervention

List of the key factors which prompted intervention in the case study Interventions raise school Ofsted grade, at Beacon Hill High School, Blackpool.
Brief description of the intervention

Overview of the intervention involved in the case study Interventions raise school Ofsted grade, at Beacon Hill High School, Blackpool.
Outcomes and future plans

Overview of the outcomes from Ofsted, July 2007 in relation to the case study Interventions raise school Ofsted grade at Beacon Hill High School, Blackpool.

Behaviour and attendance: The positive impact of a pilot scheme on the punctuality of a Year 8 cohort

Information on Whitley Abbey comprehensive school in Coventry, which features in a case study looking at the positive impact of a pilot scheme on the punctuality of a Year 8 cohort.

Intervention

Description of the intervention involved in a pilot scheme on the punctuality of a Year 8 cohort, including: funding for rewards through a trust fund; focus was maintained through consistent and regular messages from form tutors; pupils received certificates and vouchers for good and improved punctuality.
Outcomes

Overview of the outcomes and future plans from a pilot scheme on the punctuality of a Year 8 cohort, including: punctuality improved significantly; improved communication and collaboration within the Year 8 team; arrange funding for rewards and roll out the scheme to all year groups.

Behaviour and Attendance: Using a banding system to reduce persistent absence

Case study focusing on reducing persistent absence and raising overall attendance through the use of an Attendance Banding Colour system (the ABC system).

Brief description of the intervention

Details of what is being done to address the school's issues, such as: all pupils were banded according to their attendance; tutors were given colour-banded class lists with simple lists of expected actions by identified staff.
Outcomes and future plans

Outline of the outcomes achieved and how the school intends to maintain its success and improve other areas of concern.

Behaviour and attendance: To show how a strategically managed intervention can reduce absence

Background information and factors that motivated intervention for a comprehensive school which helped to demonstrate how strategically managed intervention can reduce absence.

Intervention

Description of the strategically managed intervention strategies that can reduce absence, including: regular review meetings to monitor and evaluate impact; attendance included as a standing item on all school agendas e.g. heads of year, SLT, department, parents meetings etc.; allocation of overall responsibility for attendance to a senior member of staff.
Outcomes

Overview of the outcomes from strategically managed intervention strategies that can help to reduce absence; including: an improved understanding of attendance issues; regular opportunities for an analytical and proactive approach to data; consistency in approach and expectation across year groups.
Future plans

Overview of the future plans for strategically managed intervention strategies that can help to reduce absence.

Behaviour and attendance: Reducing persistent absence and improving attainment

A case study that focuses on reducing the percentage of pupils with persistent absence and raising attainment through the management of pupils with persistent absence. From Thrybergh Comprehensive School in Rotherham.

Brief description of the intervention

Information about the intervention, which included using the Learning Support Unit (LSU) as a hub for learning, identifying pupils so that home visits could be made and timetables personalised, entering the LSU manager into the NPSLBA programme and investing more in LSU resources.
Outcomes and future plans

Details of the impact on results and the next steps, which include identifying pupils lower down the school to work proactively with all age groups and their families.

Behaviour and attendance: Using Attendance Panels to fast track to prosecution

Case study of Filsham Valley School, a mixed comprehensive school in East Sussex. This case study focuses on using Attendance Panels to fast track to prosecution, raising the profile of attendance with parents and providing the school with a focused approach to address matters of poor attendance.

Intervention

Description of the intervention involved in using Attendance Panels to fast track to prosecution, raising the profile of attendance with parents and providing the school with a focused approach to address matters of poor attendance.
Outcomes and future plans

Description of the outcome of the intervention involved in using Attendance Panels to fast track to prosecution, raising the profile of attendance with parents and providing the school with a focused approach to address matters of poor attendance.

Behaviour And Attendance Key Messages For SENCOs

This publication is designed for special education needs coordinators, to support and promote positive behaviour and regular attendance in secondary schools. It contains key messages explaining the details of the National Behaviour and Attendance Program. Ref: 0738-2003 Publication date: December 2003

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