Improving Attendance: A Resource Package For Schools

Improving Attendance: a resource package for schools has been revised.  This second edition contains a range of successful practice case studies as ‘Spotlights on school attendance’.  Each chapter is available for download as a pdf together with editable word templates for schools.

This edition of Improving Attendance contains:

• Information about the Attendance Audit
• WA attendance facts
• WA Aboriginal Child Health Survey information
• Emphasis on the importance of attendance record keeping
• Checklists, questions and information about focus groups
• Information on young carers, school refusal and children with chronic physical or mental health problems
• Documented attendance plan samples and templates

Schools are encouraged to print the chapters double-sided and replace the original chapters in the Improving Attendance resource first published in 2006.
A future review is planned for 2012.

Templates

Template	Format	Size
Appendix 1 - Application for exemption from schooling	Word	5.3 MB
Appendix 3 - Request to place a student onto the CWU List	Word	242 KB
Appendix 12 - Attendance intervention record	Word	68 KB
Appendix 13 - Attendance intervention checklist	Word	55 KB
Appendix 14 - Summary of home visits re attendance	Word	67 KB
Appendix 19 - Simple documented individual attendance plan	Word	42 KB
Appendix 20 - Simple individual attendance plan	Word	54 KB
Appendix 21 - Attendance case conference record and documented plan	Word	64 KB
Appendix 22 - Useful contacts for schools	Word	50 KB
Appendix 23 - Referral to district attendance coordinator	Word	259 KB
Diagram 3 - Student attendance monitoring and intervention	Word	57 KB