Arrivals
Supervision begins from 8:10am with Morning Zones. Students are able to choose from the Fitness Zone, Screen Zone, Library and Games Zone. Parents are encouraged to ensure that students arrive at school prior to 8:25am, so that they have the opportunity to organise themselves and be ready to start their school day promptly at 8:25am. Students who are consistently late miss out on gathering with their peer group. Their learning opportunities are disrupted, as are the opportunities of their classmates. Students who arrive after 8:30am are required to be signed in at the office to collect a late slip to take to class. Students who arrive late will be marked late on the morning roll.
Departures
After school supervision is provided at Reed Road Stop, Drop and Go and O’Brien Rd entrances. Children who are still waiting at Reed Rd at 3.15pm are directed to sit outside the school office until they are collected by parents or their representatives.
Leaving School Grounds
Parents coming to the school to collect students during the school day are required to call in to the office to sign their children out. Children will then be sent to the office to meet their parents.
Student Absence
When a pupil is absent from school, parents are required to notify the school via the MyCE Parent App, phone call or email explaining the absence. Verbal explanations, by a student or sibling, are inadequate. If there are unexplained absences, the school will contact parents, to ensure that parents are aware of the absence.
Students, families and carers, and staff will work together to ensure all students meet the school expectation of 90% or above attendance and zero unexplained absences. 90% attendance equates to 5 days absence per term and 10 days absence per semester.
Section 176(1)(b) of the Education (General Provisions) Act provides that each parent of a child of compulsory school age has the obligation to ensure their child is attending school on every school day, for the educational program in which the child is enrolled. Failure to comply with the obligation in s.176(1)(b), without a reasonable excuse, is an offence.
