Attendance Starts with the Adults

Rethinking Transition, Anxiety & Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA)
A psychologically informed professional development session exploring how transition, anxiety, and school non-attendance develop across home and school systems.
Drawing on Adults First principles, this session examines how attendance difficulties can emerge when stress accumulates across relationships, routines, communication, and adult
capacity and how schools can strengthen attendance through earlier, more relational support.
Explore:
Transition, anxiety, and attendance
The impact of adult capacity on pupil outcomes
Reducing system strain before difficulties escalate
Building stronger partnerships with families
Practical strategies for adult alignment and relational steadiness
A deeper understanding of transition-related anxiety and EBSNA
A systemic framework for understanding attendance
difficulties
Strategies to strengthen collaboration between home and school
Practical approaches to support sustainable attendance