Their intuitive system simplifies tracking and enables you to manage pupil attendance efficiently.
It's easy to use, and has a great team behind it to support you if you need help.
Our unique software program extracts the attendance information you have already recorded in your management information system. Our software will transform the way in which education institutions, monitor, scrutinise, report and deal with pupil attendance through more targeted support. It will reduce the administrative burden and it will enable attendance and administration staff to focus on supporting pupils with attendance issues as it eliminates the time spent on retrieving, examining and compiling data to manage and challenge pupil non-attendance. All of this is achieved through a user-friendly dashboard within our website.
Online Database for Whole School Attendance
With one click, whole school pupil attendance data is evaluated, enabling real-time data analysis and managing the next steps in facilitating improvements to individual pupil and whole school attendance. The database will direct the next course of action to be taken if a pupil’s attendance is not improving at a consistent rate.
Letters and Action Plans
Where there is insufficient progress with attendance for an individual pupil, sequential letters are generated from The A Star System, advancing from an initial concern letter to formal monitoring periods and subsequent action plans.
Home Visits
The A Star System will automatically and periodically coordinate timely attendance home visits for school staff to carry out. Following a home visit, the outcome is recorded electronically in real time.
Welfare Visits
The A Star System is designed to allow the welfare and safeguarding of students to be at the forefront of school’s thoughts. The A Star System believes in the welfare of children by supporting and empowering schools. Welfare home visits are generated by the system to empower schools with assurance of a pupil’s safety and well-being.
LA Referrals
The A Star System recall’s chronological attendance, all pupils’ interventions are recorded in a clear and easy to understand report. All letters, action plan, minutes of meeting are saved in a secure environment within the system. This enables school attendance teams to gather information readily and quickly in preparation for local authority attendance team referrals.
Reports
At a touch of a button The A Star System provides detailed professional individual pupil reports which include all actions taken from your pupil’s chronology.
You can also collate and report on your school's actions and monitoring responses for vulnerable groups.
I have worked with A Star for several years in my role as Head Teacher and have always employed their expert services to ensure our attendance policies, procedures and systems and outstanding. We believe that this service provides excellent value for money and provides us with the peace of mind that we are compliant and highly responsive to all attendance issues. Comprehensive training ensures all understand and are engaged with the system and find it exceptionally useful and easy to follow. As a direct result, our internal reporting systems are robust and daily procedures thorough and consistently applied. A Star are responsive to our needs and become they follow national framework precisely, regular updates ensure that guidance and advice is current and supportive to ensure we achieve the very best outcomes for pupils and their families. A Star are dedicated to providing expert and outstanding service and are always a phone call away - offering peace of mind and attention to detail for all attendance matters. We believe that working with A Star's system has strengthened our work in school, improved our systems and procedures and given us the confidence, language and the knowledge to challenge attendance effectively.
Lindsay Robertson
Headteacher, Willow Wood Community Primary School