Attendance at School

Regular attendance at school is fundamental to your child’s learning. Consistent attendance and participation are essential for your child’s social and academic learning. As parents or legal guardians of an enrolled child, you are responsible under the School Education Act 1999 to ensure the attendance of your child at school every day. It is important to assist your child’s achievement and learning by making regular school attendance a priority in your child’s life. The Department of Education’s Student Attendance policy requires parents/guardians to provide an acceptable explanation to the school principal for any absence of their children. Principals must authorise all absences. The Act defines health, religious and cultural observances as reasonable cause for a school absence and the absence would be recorded as ‘authorised’ by the principal. As the parent/guardian you must obtain the principal’s approval for any planned absence. We accept both verbal or written explanations for any absence. A note, email or phone call are all acceptable. We monitor each class to see which has the best record of providing 'explained' absences. Please help you child's class to win the race to be the best class at providing explanations for absences by phoning or writing to tell us why they are away from school.