When Every Single Lesson Counts

This user story highlights how Senoptic’s AI analytics and IoT sensor technology can help schools achieve their behaviour-driven strategic goals. By capturing and analysing real-time student behaviour data, Senoptic empowers schools to proactively manage internal truancy, enhance safeguarding, and create a more focused learning environment. Our tailored solutions provide actionable insights that allow educators and administrators to optimise resources, improve student outcomes, and foster a safer, more productive school environment for students to flourish.

Behaviour-driven Strategic Goals

• Every student in every class, every day, because every single lesson counts.
• Minimise truancy by quickly identifying and returning students to class, improving overall attendance and learning outcomes.
• Make efficient use of staff time and resources, reducing the number of personnel required to monitor student activity.

Target Behaviour

Identifying students not in class during lesson time, typically exhibiting roaming and hiding behaviour. The goal is to find truanting students and return them to class as quickly as possible, minimising the number of students loitering in unauthorised areas during lessons.

Current Process

Staff currently patrol the school grounds, using radios to communicate while manually searching for truanting students. This process is time-consuming, inefficient, and resource-intensive, often requiring multiple staff members to track down and return students to their classes.

"Staff patrol the school grounds looking for truanting students."

Future Process with Senoptic

With Senoptic's AI-driven behaviour data analytics and sensor integration, staff can use live mapping to instantly identify students not in class. By monitoring live alerts from existing security systems (CCTV, access control, etc.), the system highlights truanting hotspots in real-time, providing actionable data that allows staff to intervene efficiently and return students to class. SLT (Senior Leadership Team) can use the behaviour data dashboard to strategically deploy staff at key locations and times based on historical truancy data.

• "Staff use real-time alerts and live mapping to identify truanting students and return them to class faster, minimising disruption."

Outcomes

• Improved student attendance. With real-time tracking, students are more likely to attend every lesson, leading to better overall academic performance and fewer cases where teachers need to spend time catching students up on missed work.
• Efficient staff deployment. Fewer staff members are required to patrol the school, allowing for better resource use, and staff morale improves due to a more streamlined, tech-assisted process.
• Data-driven insights for SLT. Senior leaders can access actionable insights, allowing them to identify truancy patterns and deploy staff more effectively, reducing truancy incidents over time.

Who Benefits?

Teachers: Gain more instructional time, with less focus on catching up truanting students, leading to higher student engagement and achievement.

SLT (Senior Leadership Team): Can manage staff resources more efficiently and use data-driven insights to improve school attendance rates and overall school performance.

Parents: Experience peace of mind knowing their children are in class and receiving the full benefit of their education.

Students: Benefit from increased supervision, safeguarding, and ultimately, better academic outcomes.

Wider School Impact

Increased attendance and better academic results contribute to the school’s reputation, making it more sought-after by parents and students.

The improved learning environment reduces non-educational expenses (e.g., safeguarding incidents, additional staffing), allowing for reinvestment into core educational activities.

By leveraging Senoptic’s AI analytics and security infrastructure, schools can achieve their strategic goals of improving attendance and safeguarding, all while optimising staff resources and fostering a more productive learning environment.

Schedule a consultation now and speak with a Senoptic Education specialist to learn how Senoptic can help you unlock the full potential of your behaviour data.