School Resources
Please note that these resources are only available to Oldham schools participating in The 100% Challenge – if you would like further information about how your school can get involved please contact MOTIV
TIP’S TOP ATTENDANCE TIPS (Primary Schools Only)
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MOTIV have produced an exclusive resource for The 100% Challenge featuring the Crayola character Tip: ‘Tips Top Tips for Top Attendance’.
It is suitable for use in assembly or class and features a quiz looking at ways that a pupil can ensure they maintain good attendance.
This PowerPoint is available to all primary schools participating in The 100% Challenge – if your school would like a copy please contact support and we will email you a copy.
PAINTING BRIGHTER FUTURES (Primary Schools Only)
The ‘Painting Brighter Futures’ competition to get children thinking and talking about their future, what they would like to be and how attendance at schools is important. If you would like to enter your children in this competition, please contact support and we will e-mail you a copy.
For further information about ‘Painting Brighter Futures’ please click here
ATTENDANCE WEEK SCHEME OF WORK FOR FORM GROUPS (Secondary Schools Only)
We have specifically developed a scheme of work to help engage your pupils with The 100% Challenge. This comprises of 5 ten minute lessons which encourage your children to think about the importance of good attendance in schools and consists of thought provoking exercises, quizzes and mini challenges which can be used in form time. If you would like a copy of this resource please contact support and we will e-mail you a copy.
ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE
To request a print version of this certificate to use in your school please contact MOTIV Support
SOME FACTS ABOUT ATTENDANCE
“If a child misses just one day a week, over the course of their school career they will miss two years of schooling” Every Lesson Counts March 2007
“Children excluded from school and persistent truants are at greater risk of growing up to become vulnerable adults living on the edges of society. They will not only become less able to form relationships or find jobs but they will also go on to make huge demands on the NHS, social services and the criminal justice system” Misspent Youth. New Philanthropy Capital Report June 2007
It is well documented that NEETS (Young people that are not in Employment, Education or Training) have poor school attendance records.
“A study by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) conservatively estimates that each new NEET (not in employment, education or training) at 16 will cost taxpayers an average of £97,000 during their lifetime, with the worst costing more than £300,000 apiece. Their impact on crime, public health and antisocial behaviour was so marked that the study found that a single 157,000-strong cohort of 16 to 18-year-old Neets would cost the country a total of £15 billion by the time they died prematurely in about 2060. They are, says the study, 22 times more likely to be teenage mothers; 50% more likely to suffer from poor health; 60% more likely to be involved with drugs and more than 20 times more likely to become criminals” The Sunday Times
ATTENDANCE TIPS BY TEXT
If you use systems to send messages by text to parents, we have developed a series of short facts about the importance of good school attendance aimed at parents. These sound bites are also suitable for use in school news letters that go home to parents.
If you would like a copy please contact support
