Attendance Accelerator: Boosting attendance, one student at a time.
– What is the importance of improving student attendance and how does that help them?
Improving the attendance of students is one of the main challenges of our country. There is no need for an explanation that achieving results is impossible if students don’t come to school.
For a student to learn, they have to take part in various activities. Schools Know the importance of attending school and it’s proven that missing just 10% of school can seriously reduce the chances of a student achieving their true potential.
The Objectives of Our Attendance Accelerator:
Improving Student’ attendance and supporting schools to make this possible. Our main objective is to work with Students who are persistently absent from school are less likely to succeed academically, the attendance accelerator is to rebuild students into education.
- Break down the barriers to learning
- Understand the students
- Improve Attendance in an Educational Setting
How KRS Education delivers an improved attendance one student at a time.
Students who miss more than four days of school each month are at higher risk of becoming NEETs. KRS Education works closely with schools and students to reduce this risk.
- Engaging with students and parents at home
- Getting to know likes and dislikes
- Build a bespoke curriculum
- Deliver the plan, and get an agreement
- Show parents and students a neutral educational site, and ensure there are no barriers.
What are the common curriculum and life skills lessons we will focus on with students when in attendance?
What are the common curriculum and life skills lessons we will focus on with students when in attendance?
Depending on age groups depends on delivery.
- We base learning on likes, such as sport, social media, hobbies
- Offering mini-modules for success, linking to digital media/sports coaching delivery, and other vocational solutions
- IT-Ready
- Employability Skills
- Clear Targets towards apprenticeships
- English Language
- Maths
We have an array of aims and targets for each student
Why do we commit to ongoing reviews?
We must continue to commit to holding ongoing reviews, including involvement from parents and students’ visions and aspirations. We must also make sure students are growing emotionally while also academically.
- Circumstances change
- Always ready to change the programme
- Assess if work is too difficult or not challenging enough
- Students may be open to a partial return to school.
- Introduction to different core subjects
Reports and progress
Our reporting and progress charting is essential to keep all parties in the loop of what students are working on and aiming to achieve. If they are slipping on their standards, it is good to quickly do a check-in with them.
Our reporting system will demonstrate an improvement in attendance, academic, and importantly, emotional and social development.
- Daily contact with school regards attendance / If home Visit was needed
- Weekly progress report – Attainment and attendance figures
- Social / Emotional progress
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Ability: A student’s struggle to read, write and understand, within a school setting they will be in the “bottom set” which they don’t want. They could have a TA sit with them which again they also don’t want.
Specific help at a specific time can change their life away from the eyes of their peers.
Sadly prison is full of people who struggle to read or write and we need to start preventing this from happening.
Bullying: This destroys student confidence and it’s also been known to be a major reason for parents not to send their children. We have a programme specifically for this to help build confidence and resilience
Mental Health: Depression / Anxiety / School phobia
This is a huge obstacle for students, who can walk up to the front doors and walk away, the longer this goes on the worse it can be. With mental health, you do not know when the bad days will strike and can often lead to added pressure.
Teaching mindfulness is something we deliver and can help students calm their minds and show away from the mainstream setting what can be done to build them up, build confidence, build resilience and engage with learning.