Attendance Training Courses
Empower your staff to increase school attendance
Learn from the attendance experts
Do you want a better idea of how you can boost attendance and bring persistently absent students back to school yourselves? Or perhaps you need help preparing for Ofsted inspections, making home visits, or supporting EAL students? In which case, our wide range of Education Welfare courses will give you everything you need.
Created by our experienced Education Welfare specialists here at Peninsula Education, you’ll have access to over 40 years combined experience increasing attendance and supporting welfare across Devon, Cornwall, and the South West. Learn in-person in the South West, or study online wherever you are in England, with flexible options to suit you.
Why invest in Attendance Training?
Our Education Welfare specialists have designed our courses to give you everything you need to deal with challenging Education Welfare issues and reach excellent attendance rates yourselves. They put the resources required to gain an Outstanding grade at Ofsted right at your fingertips and save you money in the long run by creating specialists within your own department.
Choose from a wide range of courses covering topics from everyday attendance issues right through to dealing with children at risk of exclusion. Find courses suited to all staff members, from Teaching Assistants to School Governors. Study the courses online, at your own pace, wherever you are in England. Alternatively, bring our experienced team to you, and learn in-person in your school or academy across Devon, Cornwall, and the South West.
Boost Attendance, Reduce Persistent Absence
Understand the groups at risk of persistent absence and how you can better support them to improve their attendance. Learn the requirements of Ofsted in demonstrating your awareness of persistence absence and your plans to fix it. Come away feeling confident in your strategies and how to implement them.
Who’s it for?
- Attendance Administrators
- Heads of Year
- Senior Leadership Teams
- Pastoral Staff
Attendance and School Inspections
Learn to decode your attendance data and better use it to improve attendance. Come away being able to spot patterns, plan interventions, monitor it for success, and explain your data-led strategies to Ofsted Inspectors with ease.
Who’s it for?
- Senior Teachers
- Senior Leadership Team
- Administrators
- Pastoral Staff
- Attendance Governors
Understanding Attendance and the Law
Learn how each section of the Law works concerning attendance. Understand the different responsibilities placed on parents; schools and the Local Authority in turn, according to each different situation. Come away knowing the common pitfalls schools should avoid and how to write court papers with ease.
Who’s it for?
- Attendance Administrators
- Heads of Year
- Senior Leadership Teams
- Pastoral Staff
Ensure Safer Lone Working for Staff
Protect your safety and that of your staff while conducting home visits alone. Learn the appropriate protocols to follow in different situations and what to do when things go wrong. Come away ensuring the health and safety of all involved is managed appropriately.
Who’s it for?
- Administrators
- Teachers
- Teaching Assistants
- Senior Leadership Teams
- Pastoral Staff
- Governors
Attendance, Safeguarding and CME
Understand exactly what to do when a student is missing from school with no explanation. Learn how to manage safeguarding concerns, when referrals should be made and to whom, and when to seek additional help and support.
Who’s it for?
- Attendance Administrators
- Heads of Year
- Senior Leadership Teams
- Pastoral Staff
Keeping Better Student Registers
Understand exactly which code to use in different situations when recording an absence on the register. Learn the importance of consistent coding, how your registers will be used, and when it’s acceptable to authorise an absence. Come away feeling confident you can manage your registers yourself.
Who’s it for?
- Attendance Administrators
- Heads of Year
- Senior Leadership Teams
- Pastoral Staff
Supporting English as an Additional Language
Learn from our experienced English as an Additional Language (EAL) experts and develop the skills and knowledge required to be able to support your EAL learners with ease. Come away feeling confident in your abilities, and make transitions simpler for everyone involved.
Who’s it for?
- Classroom Teachers
- SENCOs
- Teaching Assistants
Managing School Exclusions
An unfair or poorly executed exclusion can have major consequences and legal implications for all involved. Learn what does and does not justify an exclusion, and how to execute the process when necessary. Come away with a full understanding of the Headteacher’s remit, and the role of Governors in ensuring an exclusion is reviewed fairly.
Who’s it for?
- Senior Leadership Team
- Governors
Understanding Juvenile Employment
Bring your knowledge of juvenile employment rules up to date with the help of our dedicated Education Welfare Support team. Come away confident in your ability to better safeguard and support your students to be well-informed and safe at work, so their employment doesn’t impact their attendance and attainment levels.
Who’s it for?
- Heads of Year
- Year Group Tutors
- Senior Leadership Team
- Pastoral Staff
Flexible Training Options
As teachers and governors with over 40 years of school experience, we know how much pressure there is on your time and resources. There isn’t always space in the INSET schedule for in-person training, and staff don’t always have time to spare for independent study.
So you can learn when it suits you, we provide flexible options for our training courses. Cover the same excellent course material in two different ways so you can learn new skills however suits you. Why not combine courses taken in different ways to fit your learning into busy schedules?
In-Person Learning
Choose to take any one of our attendance training courses in person for a more direct learning experience. One of our experienced trainers will travel to your school or academy anywhere in Devon, Cornwall, and the South West, to deliver excellent training to your staff.
Enjoy having our trainer there in person to answer any questions directly, and take advantage of learning together as a team, with everyone bringing their own questions and experiences to the table.
Get in touch to book one or more courses for your staff, and we’ll travel to you at a time that suits you.
Online Learning
Go online to study our attendance training courses for ultimate convenience. Purchase courses directly in our Online Training Area and learn whenever suits you, asking questions through our online discussion forum.
Enjoy developing new skills and tools from wherever you are in England. There’s no need to miss any work or organise extra INSET days for your staff. Download the course resources so you can refer back to them whenever you need them.
Simply find the course you need, and get started right away.
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