Checklist · 4 pages · PDF
The Term 4 retention checklist
Students don't leave in Term 4. They leave in Term 3 and you find out in Term 4. This checklist runs from week 6 of Term 3 to the first day of Term 1 and covers the parent conversation, the re-enrolment offer, the holiday gap and the two students who've gone quiet.
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What's in it
Inside the checklist.
- A week-by-week timeline from Term 3 week 6 to Term 1 day one
- The re-enrolment conversation, scripted for a parent who has seen progress and one who hasn't
- The holiday gap plan: what to send in December and January
- The gone-quiet list: how to spot the students who won't come back, five weeks early
- A one-page owner's scoreboard for the term
When to use it
Print it in week 5 of Term 3 and put it on the wall.
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The Term 4 retention checklist
- Week 6, Term 3: list every student with no completed work in the last fortnight. Call two parents.
- Week 9, Term 3: send every parent a written note on what improved this term. Not an invoice.
- Week 2, Term 4: put the re-enrolment form in every parent's hand with the term summary attached.
- December: one message, one piece of holiday work, one date for Term 1.
continues in the PDF
Where this leads
Most of what's in this checklist is done by hand today. On the platform, from your own material, the reports send themselves and the numbers come from the work students actually did.
Next step
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