As we move through the school year, sometimes regular school attendance can be challenging.  It’s important your child keeps up good attendance habits. Going to school every day means your child has every chance to learn, and be around their friends and teachers. Every day adds up, to benefit your child now and in the future.  If you’re having trouble getting your child to school, please talk to us. We’ll listen to your situation, and help in any way we can.

If you’re looking for tips on how to create better attendance habits, visit the Anything can happen website.

Our attendance system sends us messages when children have missed 5, 10 and 15 days either unexplained or unauthorised.

Unexplained is when you have not contacted the school to let us know why your child is away, or you do not respond to the text message that is sent after we have completed attendance for the day.

Unauthorised is when your child is away from school for a non-educational based reason (this includes taking holidays during the term). If your child is going to be away from school due to a family holiday or for an alternative activity that relates to learning or an organised event, please contact us so that we are able to record this in the system.

If the system indicates that your child has been away for 5, 10 or 15 days from school unexplained or unauthorised you will receive either a call or a letter from the school.