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Improving Attendance – a Whole School Approach

 

Book for Online, 5 May 2022

Fees
Member - £149
Non-Member - £230

Facilitators - Joanne Sierzega, Sharon Stevens and Julia Morris

Topics in the session will include:

  • Whole school approaches securing good attendance
  • Using data to inform actions
  • Impact of covid on attendance and strategies to return to normality
  • Setting expectations of good attendance
  • Setting attendance improvement within culture of school ethos and school improvement
  • Supporting pupils and families and removing barriers to attendance
  • Using a range of support services
  • Understanding statutory action and when to use it.
  • Problem solving

Suggested prior reading:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/securing-good-attendance-and-tackling-persistent-absence

Overall 100% of attendees rated the session as Good or Excellent.

Audience

School leaders- Heads, Deputies, SLT, Primary Leads, Primary Teachers, Phase Leaders, SENCos, Attendance Leads, and Pastoral Leads

Aims and objectives

Giving school leaders the tools and confidence they need to:-

•    deliver an effective whole school strategy for attendance.
•    actions that school leaders may consider taking to improve attendance for all pupils, pupils at risk of persistent absence and pupils who are persistently absent.
•    Understanding impact of covid on attendance and strategies to move forward.

By the end of the session delegates will:

•    be able to improve or develop a whole school strategy to improve attendance.
•    have a range of strategies to reduce persistent absence in their schools

Facilitators

Joanne Sierzega

Joanne is Company Director of Central School Attendance and Welfare Service (a West Midlands based independent Attendance and Welfare Service) Joanne has worked in the field of Education Welfare and attendance for just over 22 years. Joanne works with a wide range of schools to develop strategic action plans and embed consistent processes and procedures to improve attendance and reduce PA.

Sharon Stevens

Sharon has 21 years experience working in the field of education welfare and school attendance improvement services. Sharon works with a range of operational and strategic school staff to audit, formulate, and implement absence management strategies and whole school attendance improvement plans. Sharon is the North East, Yorkshire and Humber AEWM rep and currently works at Stockton borough council as team manager Inclusion & vulnerable learners.

Julia Morris

Julia Morris is the Children Missing Education Manager in Bath and North East Somerset and has 16 years’ experience in the field of Education Welfare and attendance matters.  A significant part of her current role, alongside taking enforcement action on behalf of the LA, is to support schools to develop a whole school approach for managing attendance and ensuring efficient, effective and meaningful school interventions are used to secure improved attendance.

 

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