The document discusses the importance of attendance and punctuality for student achievement and success. It notes that regularly absent students are less likely to achieve distinction or merit grades, and more likely to not achieve at all compared to present students. The document then outlines the potential negative effects of poor attendance on students' academic performance, social relationships, and extracurricular opportunities. It also discusses how poor attendance impacts teachers and the college. The final sections provide tips for improving attendance and punctuality, and outline the attendance policy and procedures at The Manchester College.

1. Attendance &
Punctuality

2. Attendance Matters!
• The link between attendance and
achievement is well documented
– 10% of regularly absent students achieve
Distinction or Merit grades compared with
38% of occasionally absent students and
58% of present
– 21% of regularly absent students do not
achieve, compared to 3% of present
students

3. Attendance Matters!
The potential effects of irregular attendance
are:
– Get behind with work
– Lose the thread of the topics being taught
– Become demotivated
– Lose friendships
– Miss out on important careers and guidance
inputs
– Miss out on extra curricular opportunities
– Are less likely to feel involved

4. Jane Smith
Jane’s attendance is always
around 90%.
She thinks this is pretty good.
•90% attendance means that she is absent from
one lesson per week
•Last year she missed the equivalent of three
weeks of teaching which equates to one brief or
assignment

5. Attendance %
• What’s yours?

6. My Attendance is…
• Excellent 100%
• Good 90-99%
• Acceptable 80-89%
• Poor 70-79%
• Very Poor 60-69%

7. Poor Attendance Affects
Me
– Miss important, key, interesting information
– Miss important, key instructions
– Worry, stress, concern, anxiety
– Spend more time catching up
– Understand assignments
– Become disinterested, bored, resulting in poor
behaviour
– Miss out on activities, opportunities, fun!

8. Poor Attendance Affects
My Peers
•Kept waiting
•Become annoyed, irritated
•Bored by repetition
•Disrupted by late arrival and repetition
•Let down if in group or team work
•Fewer people to work with
•Different group dynamics, inconsistency

9. Poor Attendance Affects
My Tutors
•Have to repeat instructions
•Loose the thread or flow of the session
•Become irritated, disrupted, annoyed
•Have to spend time challenging learner
lateness and following procedures
•Distracts from core learning of the session
•May have to make changes to session
plans inc. group work

10. Poor Attendance Affects
My College
•Poor OFSTED reports
•Poor Teacher Observation
•Poor reputation
•Time taken calling learners, printing
reports, sending letters, meeting with
parents, meetings between staff

11. Ways to Improve
Attendance
• Set off earlier
• Catch an earlier bus, train -
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• Do not rely on others or accept lifts, if they
make you late
• Wear a watch, set your clock 5 mins fast so
you always arrive early
• Set your alarm 30 mins earlier, keep it away
from your bed, have several different alarms
inc. lights, radio, traditional

12. Ways to Improve
Attendance
• Ask someone to call you, wake you, remind you
• Ensure that you are prepared to leave on time,
pack bag the night before, make lunch, clean up
• Don’t mess about watching TV, playing computer
games, texting, playing with the dog, chatting to
your friends, trying on lots of outfits, styling hair etc.
• You are only sick if you CANNOT get out of bed
and/or need medical attention. If you can go
shopping or to a friends house, you are well
enough to attend college

13. Acceptable Reasons for
Being Late
• Serious or Severe Transport Delays –
These would be reported on the news
and affect everyone on that route
• Accidents – Do happen (occasionally)
• Faulty Alarm, Overslept (once)
• Car Breakdown (once)
• Family Emergency (rarely)
• Sickness (rarely)

14. Un-Acceptable Reasons for
Being Late
• Doctors/Dentist Appointment – Should be made outside
class time
• Went out last night – Hung-over – Be responsible
• Got lost – Been here over a year
• Missed or late Bus, Train, Lift – They always are!!!
• Friends or Family – Prioritise yourself
• Coffee, Breakfast, Food – Get up earlier, Get on break
• Sickness – Every Monday Morning!!! Unlikely
• Lost track of time – Refer to your watch…
• Couldn’t be bothered to get up or Uninterested
• Clothes or Hair not right – Get up earlier, Be prepared

15. Being Late
Makes you appear:
– Disorganised
– Disrespectful
– Unreliable
– Uncaring
– UNEMPLOYABLE
Is this how you want to appear???

16. Percentage Attendance
Weekly
90% = 1 session, ⅓ day
80% = 2 sessions, ⅔ day
70% = 3 sessions, 1 day
60% = 4 sessions, 1 ⅓ days

17. Percentage Attendance
Termly/Yearly
90% = 1.2 wks = 3.7 wks
80% = 2.4 wks = 7.4 wks
70% = 4.8 wks = 14.8 wks, 1 term
60% = 9.6 wks = 29.6 wks, 2 terms
3 terms per year, 12 weeks per term
37 weeks per year

18. High Attendance =
• More learning opportunities
• More qualifications
• More choice
IT’S YOUR CHOICE!

19. The Manchester College
• Minimum attendance target is 87%
• 100% is expected

20. TMC Process
• It is the personal tutors responsibility to
monitor A&P
• The parent of the learner must inform the
college if they are going to be absent/late
• All appointments to be made outside college
time and if not evidence of appointments
must be produced

21. TMC Process
• Lateness should be challenged without
disruption to the lesson
• Learners should be questioned at an
appropriate time to determine the reason for
lateness

22. TMC Process
1st absence
1.Tutor to inform Reception and PT
2.Reception to phone student
3.Reception to respond via email

23. TMC Process
No improvement
1.Reception to send letter home
2.PT monitor and action level 1 of
disciplinary procedure
3.Monitor for 2 weeks

24. TMC Process
No improvement/Continued absence
1.Follow disciplinary procedure level 2
2.Reception to send 2nd Letter
3.Written warning
Still no improvement
1.Reception to send 3rd Letter
2.Parents Invited in

25. Learner Late Book
• Students are to complete and sign late book