IMPROVING LIVES, INSPIRING CHANGE
Attendance Monitoring
Brian Jackson College regards regular attendance as essential to ensure the best possible learning outcomes for all pupils, and that regular attendance at the college is necessary to promote better life chances.
The college’s ethos encourages pupils to feel that their presence is important and that they are missed when they are absent or late.
The Pathways Model: A Relational Intervention for Attendance
Our Pathways Model offers a structured, staged approach to supporting pupils who are struggling with attendance. This model ensures interventions are:
- Tailored to each pupil’s story and context
- Relational in delivery, always beginning with listening and curiosity
- Empowering, helping the young person to be part of the solution
Key features of the Pathways Model include:
- Joint planning with pupils and families
- Attendance coaching and check-ins
- Transitional or part-time timetables (where needed)
- Home visits and community-based work
- Connection to therapeutic or pastoral support
- Ongoing reviews and adjustments as required
We believe that every child wants to succeed, and when we understand the obstacles they face, we are better able to empower them with choices, connection, and hope.
Key Points
There is a clear link between good attendance and high standards of educational outcomes. For our pupils to gain the greatest benefit from their education it is vital that they attend regularly and our expectation is that pupil should be at school, on time, every day the school is open unless the reason for the absence is unavoidable.
Our attendance policy sets out the principles and guidelines by which we seek to raise attendance, improve punctuality, to raise levels of achievement and to maximise opportunities both in school and in later life.
To report a pupil’s absence please ring the school office.
Heckmondwike – 01924 408306
Huddersfield – 01484 431 962