Attendance Response Plan

As a school and leadership team we receive automatic alerts from our school management system (HERO) when a student is absent for more than 5 plus days in a term. These absences may be either justified or unjustified.

Once a notification has been received we follow the below response plan which has been approved by the Willow Park School Board. This plan is inline with the Ministry of Education's, 'Stepped Attendance Response' (STAR).  For more information please follow this link STAR .

For moderate attendance, correspondence will be sent to whānau highlighting the attendance concern, at this point contact will be made to 'touch base' and discuss any issues.

For irregular attendance, in addition to a letter, whānau will be invited to co-construct a collaborative support plan to improve attendance.  Outside agency support may be accessed at this point if appropriate.

In cases of chronic and concerning absence, in addition to a collaborative support plan the school will engage with outside agencies to improve attendance. Referrals can be made to the 'North Auckland Integrated School Support Service' (NAISSS). For more information regarding NAISSS please follow this link https://naisss.org