Student Wellbeing
Student Attendance - It's Not OK to Be Away
It's Not OK to Be Away is a statewide initiative building a school and community approach to the issue of student attendance. The initiative is designed to change community and student attitudes to school attendance. It requires the support of both parents and the community if student attendance is to be successfully addressed.
It's Not OK to Be Away promotes two key messages:
- Student attendance is the responsibility of everyone in the community
- Effective Schools monitor, communicate and implement strategies to improve regular school attendance, as this is a prerequisite for improving educational outcomes.
The It's Not OK to Be Away: Student Attendance Support Kit is a guide to implementing successful processes and procedures which schools can adopt to record, monitor, and better encourage improved student attendance. The Kit also provides case study examples and strategies that schools can use to engage the support of parents and the community.
The Kit contains general school information about attendance, sample attendance policies, case study examples and strategies, survey templates, presentations, brochures and posters.
Support Kit
- Cover (PDF - 341Kb)
- Dividers (PDF - 152Kb)
- Introduction (PDF - 40Kb)
- Part 1 - Whole School Planning (PDF - 183Kb)
- Part 2 - Attendance Strategies and Sample Policies (PDF - 291Kb)
- Part 3 - Community (PDF - 87Kb)
- Part 4 - Resources (PDF - 53Kb)