Attendance Management Plan

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 (90% of the time) by 2030.

Our school currently has 53.2% regular attendance and a target of lifting regular attendance to 65% by the end of 2026.

Board, Executive Principal responsibilities

The board is responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the school’s students attend Ko Taku Reo Enrolled school provisions when they are 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, return to regular attendance
• Having processes and procedures in place to support a Stepped Attendance Response (STAR) to student absence that uses data-based thresholds to identify students
• Publishing this attendance management plan on the school’s website
• Having an attendance management plan reviewed annually by the Executive Leadership team and the Head of Enrolled School.
• Investigate and respond (in line with attendance management plan) and record actions taken in relation to absences not resolved and exceeding the thresholds of the plan.

Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning responsibilities

The Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning is responsible for:

• Embedding and reviewing an attendance strategy and attendance management plan
• Having an effective method in place for identifying and monitoring student absence, including identifying patterns and barriers to student attendance
• Developing a stepped attendance response (STAR) aligned with the thresholds to support student attendance
• Report to Executive Principal and Board on any trends, barriers to attendance and interventions being used to support student attendance
• Report to Executive Principal and Board attendance data termly in line with Ministry of Education attendance categories.

Head of Enrolled School responsibilities

The Head of Enrolled School is responsible for:

• Ensuring all daily attendance and absences are recorded and responded to accurately and in a timely manner using our Student Management System: Compass
• Implementing a stepped attendance response (STAR) aligned with the thresholds to support student attendance
• Ensuring that student absence is investigated, responded to and actions taken are recorded and align with the thresholds
• Ensuring that all students, whanau and staff understand the processes and procedures that support student attendance
• Receive and share with Enrolled School leaders data and analysis weekly from the Evaluation and Reporting Lead
• Report to the Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning on any trends, barriers to attendance and interventions being used to support student attendance.