IT’S NOT OK TO BE AWAY

High expectations: is 90% attendance a good result?

A child missing one day a fortnight will miss four weeks in a year, and more than a year of school by Year 10.

Local and international research demonstrates a strong correlation between students’ learning, longer-term life outcomes and attendance at school.

Positive student attendance correlates with positive educational, wellbeing and lifelong outcomes and is a protective factor against school non-completion, poverty, unemployment and poor health outcomes.

It is important that children develop habits of regular attendance from an early age, as the older a child gets the more difficult it can be to establish new habits.

Poor patterns of attendance place students at risk of not achieving their educational, social and future potential as adults.

Once learners have begun to absent themselves from school, and the initial cause of this remains undetected or unresolved, it is likely that the pattern of absence will continue and escalate through their subsequent schooling and adulthood.

Please remember that if you are experiencing difficulty in having your child attend school, discuss the matter with the relevant sub-school, Junior, Middle or Senior School.

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Principal Team