Student Wellbeing and Achievement
The year 2019-2020 was, again, a very busy and immensely productive year for the whole-school Wellbeing Team. This year turned from a year of planning and implementation to rapidly evolving situation with COVID 19, and this posed ABS with new challenges for the wellbeing of our students.
Progress made for 2019-2020: Strategic Goal One: School Culture • Student voice was further operationalized. ABS moved away from having an external consultant for food catering at ABS and re-engaged the Student Councils in developing, tasting and approving new food items. We had particular success in the Primary School, with “Taco” Tuesday which generated record interest. ABS is delighted to engage students in menu development to improve engagement and a sense of responsibility for what they are eating. Strategic Goal Two: Health and Safety • ABS again met our attendance Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of 95% attendance in School after deducting authorised absences, obtaining 96.2 % attendance. • Further to attendance, ABS started the process of investigating a facial-recognition attendance system to bring our process fully into the highest IT capacity on offer in Jordan. This would improve the start to the day and allow more time for the wellbeing curriculum delivery. • We also started a research process to investigate the possibility of a “Cashless” payment system at ABS. This would further improve the process of payments for students whilst also making the process more hygienic in food service areas.
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