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Policy

• Attendance Policy
• Child Protection Policy
• Enrolment of Students in NSW Government Schools
• Student Welfare Policy

Guidelines and procedures

• Supporting Student Attendance
• The Completion of Education Under Special Circumstances (PDF 82 KB)
• Special Circumstance Register PDF 86 KB)
• Exemption from School Procedures (PDF 1.27 MB)
• Application for Home School Liaison Program (staff only)
• Educational Neglect Information sheet (staff only;PDF 56KB) Principals information sheet.
  
• Compulsory school attendance - information for schools (PDF 534.6KB) an overview for school staff.

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School staff sign on resources

• Teaching Staff Attendance (staff only)(PDF 73kB) - The DoE NSW Teaching Attendance Book - ED2005 is replaced by this form or the schools own document.
  
• SASS Staff Attendance (staff only)(PDF 73kB) - The DoE NSW SASS Staff Attendance Book - ED2006 is replaced by this form or the schools own document.

Roll marking

• School Attendance Register Codes (PDF 70 KB)
• COVID-19 information for schools about attendance and roll marking
• Roll marking e-Learning module for staff (coming soon)
• EDConnect Rolls and attendance: support materials to assist with administration of attendance in ebs : central, including how to import attendance data (see, Import absence data into ebs : central - QRG)

Communicating with my community

• Read about behavioural insights to engage parents and carers
• Student attendance poster (PDF 1584.41KB) with Focus, Create, Embed considerations.
• Compulsory school attendance - information for parents (PDF 420.5KB) provides further information for parents and carers.
• Advice to parents and carers has further information about learning from home.

Primary

• Minutes Lost equals days lost flyer - primary (PDF 397 KB)
• Days Missed equals years lost flyer - primary (PDF 371 KB)
• Days Missed equals years lost flyer x 3 - primary (PDF 1.86 MB)
• Attendance Matters A3 poster - primary
• Attendance Matters A4 poster - primary
• Starting school
  

Secondary

• Minutes Lost equals days lost flyer - secondary (PDF 334 KB)
• Days Missed equals years lost flyer - secondary (PDF 314.8KB)
• Days Missed equals years lost flyer x 3 - secondary (PDF
• Attendance Matters A3 poster - secondary
• Attendance Matters A4 poster - secondary
• Get ready for high school checklist

Notes and notices

Resources that school communities may consider using to promote positive school attendance.

• Completing absentee notes and notices (PDF 77.1KB)

Sample notes

• Absentee note 1 (PDF 106.9KB)
  
• Absentee note 2 (PDF 108.3KB)
• Absentee note 3 (PDF 93.8KB).

Sample notices

• Absentee notice 1 (PDF 906KB)
• Absentee notice 2 (PDF 906.4KB)

Key research

• Government school student attendance 2019
  
• Supporting school completion
• Improving high school engagement, classroom practices and achievement
• Spotlight: Attendance matters
• What Works Best

People

• School Services Contacts support roles and contacts for your school.
• Service Navigator advice and information about services offered to schools.
• Home School Liaison Officers can access a range of strategies to restore satisfactory school attendance

School planning

• Attendance - whole school evaluation activity (DOCX 791.23KB) Whole school evaluation activity assists school leadership teams to analyse whole school beliefs, practices and processes relating to attendance.
• School Excellence in Action: Excellence for attendance for every student
• Scout Attendance and Engagement app - description of key reports (school, cohort, student attendance and application activity) and how to use them.

Translated documents

• Translated documents includes a comprehensive list of documents translated in many languages. Attendance documents include compulsory school information for parents, absentee notes and letters to parents.

Please contact attendance@det.nsw.edu if other translations are required.

Other government and non-government agencies

Compulsory school attendance information for other government and non-government agencies and organisations (PDF 286 KB)