Attendance Activities / Session 2
Aims
§  To explore the children’s level of attendance
§  To explore with the children appropriate targets for their own attendance
Outcomes
§  Children to start to understand their current level of attendance
§  Children to acknowledge a target to improve their own attendance
§  Children to indicate some points to improve their own attendance.
Starter activity / Check everyone received their postcards
The children to be issued with their own registration certificates
How did they do? discuss
Development
Activity / §  Using a large piece of paper having prepared the template for a graph to plot every ones progress
This could be a bar chart with each child having a column to show weekly improvements. Display for children to see
§  Start an individual action plan for each child .Fill in as much as possible. Do as a group answering together discuss as you go
Action plan to consist of
§  Childs name
§  Current attendance
§  Attendance target
§  Reasons for absence
§  What can be done to improve attendance
§  What help they feel they require
§  Signed by pupil/staff and if possible parent
Plenary / Discuss any reason for absence, discuss how we could improve, recap good/bad reasons for being off school
As a group recap how well everyone has done and set target of 10 sessions again
Each child to receive a letter home celebrating number of sessions