Health and Wellbeing

Student Wellbeing

Student Attendance

Individual schools maintain their own data relating to student attendance and this is used by schools to identify students who may have attendance problem so that strategies can be put into place to address the problem.

The Computerised Administrative Systems Environment in Schools Program (CASES21) has been provided to all schools to facilitate prompt identification of non-attenders in need of further support. This provides schools with the capacity to generate attendance data at any time.

Schools report student absence in their annual reports. These figures are used to establish statewide benchmarks of student absences in both primary and secondary schools. During the triennial review, each schools absence figures are considered against the statewide benchmarks and the schools with ongoing absence rate difficulties are expected to develop strategies in their school charters to address the problem.

Although the principal has overall responsibility for student attendance and designated staff have nominated duties in monitoring attendance, all staff are actively involved in this area of responsibility. Individual classroom teachers have the responsibility to follow up absences in their classes. The pastoral care/form teacher monitors a students overall attendance record and has responsibility to pursue unexplained absences with the student and his/her family. The year level or student welfare coordinator may become involved when the students attendance record is of concern. In most schools, attendance is fundamental to the role of all teachers, and not seen as the individual responsibility of any one member of the school team.

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