Attendance

1. Contact details

There are times when we will need to contact you, including on the day if your child is absent, and you haven’t informed the school as to why. Do we have your most up to date contact details? If not, please contact the school on 9459 0222 or email Emma Wagner on wag@macleod.vic.edu.au so we can update our records. Please include parent/carers’ name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to contact the school if any of these details or your circumstances change.

2. Notify the school of your child’s absence

Protecting the safety and well-being of children through the reporting and monitoring of absenteeism is the responsibility of both parents/carers and schools.

Please remember to call the school on 9459 0222, email wag@macleod.vic.edu.au or log your child’s child’s absence using our school’s IT platform Compass early in the morning if your child is going to be away or late for school, so your child’s absence can be recorded correctly.

For further information on the processes and procedures our school uses to record, monitor and follow-up student attendance and absence please read our Attendance Policy. 

3. Same-day notification of unexplained student absences

You will receive a text notification from Compass at 10.30am if your student is not at school, and you haven’t notified the school as to why. If you receive this notification you are asked to approve the absence by logging onto your Compass Parent Portal. 

Please remember it is your responsibility to contact us to provide an explanation for your child's absence from school, and where possible, please inform us in advance of upcoming absences.

For further information on the processes and procedures our school uses to record, monitor and follow-up student attendance and absence please read our Attendance Policy 

New Attendance Requirements

If your child is sick or absent, you are required to notify the school as soon as possible on the day of absence, by 10.30am.

Notifying the school of your child’s absence either prior to, or on the day that they will be away, helps ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and will fulfil your legal responsibility.

From the end of Term 2 2018, all Victorian government schools are required to contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained student absence. If your child is absent on a particular day, and you have not contacted the school to explain why, the absence will be marked as unexplained.

This system also promotes daily school attendance. Going to school every day is the single most important part of your child’s education, they learn new things every day – missing school puts them behind.

The Macleod College Attendance Policy which outlines the school’s processes and procedures for monitoring, recording and following-up of student absences is available via the College Website.