Changing social habits and patterns necessitated the updating of the schools attendance policy. The redrafting was a collaborative school process involving Staff and Board of Management, following an initial draft by a representative group.
The main factors contributing to the formulation of a revised policy can be summarized as follows: - To Promote and encourage regular attendance as an essential factor in our pupils learning.
- Legislative requirements such as the Education Welfare Act 2000 and the Education Act, 1998.
- The role of the National Education Welfare Board (NEWB).
- Levels of disadvantage
- Changing attitudes to education.
Aims: - Ensuring that pupils are registered accurately and efficiently.
- Ensuring that pupil attendance is recorded daily.
- Encouraging full attendance where possible.
- Identifying pupils at risk
- Promoting a positive learning environment
- Enabling learning opportunities to be availed of
- Raising awareness of the importance of school attendance
- Fostering an appreciation of learning
- Identify pupils at risk leaving school early
- Ensuring compliance with the requirements of the relevant legislation
- Developing, subject to available resources, links between the school and families of children who may be at risk of developing attendance problems
- Identifying and removing, insofar as is practicable, obstacles to school attendance.
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