Interventions

Interventions form part of your school’s Attendance Management Plan (AMP) process.

Attendance Management Plans (AMP) are formal, documented plans that require all state and state-integrated schools to outline how they will monitor, manage, and improve student attendance.

The requirement for all state and state-integrated school boards to have an AMP in place takes effect from the start of Term 1, 2026.

Click here for more information on How to Manage Attendance Management Plans (AMP)

When a student reaches a STAR threshold through continued school absence in a term, the school is required to take appropriate action and document the response provided.

This action is recorded as an intervention and is automatically reported to the Ministry of Education (MoE) through Edge.

A student will have a threshold recorded each time a STAR threshold is reached. This means a student can have multiple threshold records within a single term.
 

For example:

In Term 1, Susie Smith reached a total of 6 days of absence by February, resulting in a Yellow threshold record being created.

In the following month, her total absences increased to 10 days, resulting in an Orange threshold record being created.

For example:

The ‘Interventions’ screen allows you to review student attendance in relation to STAR thresholds, check whether appropriate AMP responses have been recorded, and take action where required.

You can:

• Filter records by Term, Threshold, Student or Student NSN
   
• Sort data by clicking the column headings
   
• View the number of days absent contributing to the threshold
   
• View the number of interventions recorded for each student by term and threshold
   
• Create interventions for an individual student or in bulk
   
• Export a listing of students that have a recorded threshold, based on the filters that you have selected.
   
• Export a listing of students and their recorded interventions, based on the filters that you have selected.

TIP: By default, only records with Yellow, Orange, or Red thresholds are displayed. To include students whose term threshold is Green, untick ‘Hide all Green Thresholds’.

TIP: A student will have a threshold recorded each time a STAR threshold is reached. This means a student can have multiple threshold records within a term. By default, only the highest threshold recorded will be displayed. To display all threshold records for a student, untick ''Show Only Highest Threshold For Each Term', option.

Interventions can be created for an individual student, for a select number of students, or in bulk.

• To create interventions for all students displayed, based on your filters, select the top tick box in the column heading to select all students, then click the Create for Selected button.
   
• To create interventions for a unique selection of students, tick the boxes next to the relevant student names, then click the Create for Selected button.
   
• To create or manage an intervention for an individual student, click the Create/Manage button next to a student’s name.

Manage Interventions Screen

The ‘Manage Interventions’ screen allows you to create new interventions or edit and delete existing interventions for a threshold that has been met.

Each intervention recorded becomes part of the student’s attendance record, creating a clear audit trail that is automatically reported to the Ministry of Education (MoE) through Edge.

NOTE: STAR thresholds are measured and reported on a term-by-term basis and reset at the start of each new term.
 

Click the ‘Create New’ button to create a new intervention.

Click the 'Edit' button to modify an existing intervention.

Click the 'Delete' button to delete an existing intervention.

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