Attendance

Tracking and monitoring attendance

A child who is missing from school on a regular basis can put their future academic achievement at risk. Authority staff understand the importance of working in close partnership with the schools in their area to target truancy and help pupils achieve more.

One Attendance ensures authorities have access to the most recent attendance data direct from schools. The information can be uploaded automatically into One Attendance so there is no need to contact the school to request reports. The data can then be tracked and monitored to ensure truanting pupils and their families are targeted from the earliest possible moment and support is provided to schools with the greatest need.

A complete record of pupil attendance

One Attendance helps ensure a complete record of pupils’ daily morning and afternoon attendance is available to the authority direct from SIMS or any other compatible school information management system. This gives authority staff access to a wide range of attendance information for individuals, groups of pupils, single schools or clusters across the region, which can be used to help combat persistent truancy and identify problem areas or schools.

More targeted frontline services

Complex analysis reports can be generated quickly to help authority staff identify any patterns that might be forming in a pupil’s non-attendance or in a particular school or region. School-by-school comparisons help make sense of the data, showing how a school of a similar size or in a particular area fares against another in similar circumstances. One Attendance ensures resources are targeted in areas where they will be most effective and any initiatives introduced can be monitored to make sure they are successfully reducing incidences of truancy.

Respond quickly

Responding early can often be effective in tackling truancy. Using B2B: Student, attendance data can be transferred automatically and securely from SIMS schools to the authority. Electronic data exchange can be scheduled every day following registration, so that attendance officers are automatically alerted to absences on the morning they are recorded by schools. This enables Education Welfare Officers to take action from the earliest possible moment

(click here for more information on Attendance Functionality Sheet)