Online Registration

&

Managing Attendance

for Schools

Company Profile

• Established in 1991

• Developers of pupil data management software products for schools and LAs

• Supplying to education establishments all over the country

• Premier Partner of Capita CS..

• Allows TASC Software products to link directly to the SIMS MIS in the school - no

transfer of data is required.

Why is

Pupil Attendance important?

Attendance & Attainment..

“The evidence shows that children with poor

attendance are unlikely to succeed

academically and they are more likely not to

be in education, employment or training (NEET)

when they leave school.

Attendance has been steadily improving in the

last few years, but there were still 57 million days

of school missed in 2009 to 2010!”

– (Source: http://www.education.gov.uk)

Attendance Problems?

Persistent

Absence

Poor attendance

Truancy Unauthorised

absence

Missing registration

marks

HOW can your school

improve pupil attendance and

increase attainment?

Answer...

PARS Connect

Pupil Data Management Software

What is PARS Connect?

A web-based teacher-friendly software

designed for schools to manage pupil data

including:

• attendance

• behaviour

• assessments

• parental

communications

How does PARS Connect work?

PARS Connect ...

• a web application

• installed onto an IIS

Server in the school

• available on the most

popular browsers

conforming to W3C

standards

• works on PC, Laptop,

iPad, Touchpad, Mobiles

Attendance

Management

Taking a Register

Electronic Registers

• Teachers can view all

registers.

• Both session (AM & PM) and lesson registers can be taken.

Register

When taking a register, teachers can also view for pupils, any:

• Notices set

• Merits

• Demerits

• Detentions set

• On report

• Extra classes

• Class removal

Attendance View

Attendance Officers can select pupils and a date range, to see attendance marks and quickly identify:

• Absentees

• Truants/Post-registration truants

• Latecomers

• Pupils who have not attended school with no reason ‘N’

Parents can be contacted via SMS, phone or email regarding attendance concerns, thus gaining parental support in improving attendance.

Attendance Management

helps schools..

• Ensure attendance data is always kept up to date and accurate, with electronic registration

• Monitor pupil attendance more efficiently

• Retrieve data easily and quickly

• Reduces levels of truancy

• Record lesson by lesson registration efficiently

• Access an analysis of attendance data

Identify Missing Registers

Any missed or incomplete registers can

be identified. The relevant staff

member can be notified to complete

it.

Unexplained Marks

Quickly and easily identify unexplained marks in attendance data.

Contact the pupil’s tutor by sending a notice; or SMS text, email or send a letter to the parents to request a reason for the absence.

Update any unexplained marks once reasons have been

provided.

Exceptional Circumstances

Manage partial or full school closure, via

recording an exceptional

circumstance.

Given a reason for the closure, any

recorded attendance marks will be

overwritten by the selected code, ‘#’

or ‘Y’ for the date period selected.

Attendance Reports

To view pupil attendance, various attendance reports are available.

Pupil persistent absence:

See which pupils are in the PA band (<85% attendance).

Not only that, but also see their attendance over previous

weeks to see if PA pupils are improving or dropping.

Attendance Reports

Attendance Reports

Attendance Reports

Automate Attendance

Reports

Selected weekly reports can be automated directing the right report at the right time to specific members of staffs email.

E.g. All heads of year to

receive a report at 10 a.m.

on Mondays detailing any

pupils with less than 85%

attendance.

A great time saving feature

for Attendance Officers!

Custom Attendance Codes

Create custom attendance codes for

lessons, helping schools to get

additional information.

Attendance Overview

View the whole school’s attendance, in easy to understand

visual displays:

• Current session

• Whole school attendance

• Year to Date vs This week

• Pupils with the worst attendance level

• Overall attendance vs Change this week

PARS Connect

improved lesson attendance & Punctuality

at Wolstanton High School!

PARS Connect

for attendance monitoring at Newent

Community School..

We have been using PARS for two years. We now have a much

better picture on attendance. We know who is in, and the accuracy

is dependent upon the user and not the software. We didn't have

lesson registers until PARS, now we can quickly see who has

disappeared. Our Attendance Officers use it all the time and

attendance is now better than it was before. We also use the

messaging and notices facilities on PARS and find its

communications features very helpful – Steven Cleaver, ICT Manager, St. Peter’s RC School

PARS started to prove an essential tool and was expanded to all

lessons. It informed staff if a student had been missing from even one

lesson. This proved essential in a battle for attendance. Our

attendance to lessons improved significantly. Lateness to lessons was

reduced – Steve Wilkinson, Assistant Headteacher, Wolstanton High

School

Would you like to see a full demo?

For further information and to book a demo, please contact:

sales@tascsoftware.co.uk

01902 824281

www.tascsoftware.com

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http://www.youtube.com/user/TASCsoftware