Attendance

At Buninyong, our day of learning starts promptly at 9am each day. The first bell goes at 8.55am and by 9am, students should be settled in their classrooms, ready for learning. 

We ask all families for your support in ensuring that your child/ren are at school on time each day, ready to learn. Classrooms are open and the yard supervised from 8.45am, which is the ideal time to arrive at school. 

Arriving even a few minutes late can result in an unsettled start to the day for that student and disrupt the rest of the class. A child’s best learning happens at the start of the day. 

If your child arrives at school after the second bell (9am) they are required to attend the office to be signed in. Parents should attend the office with their child. 

As the tables show, a few minutes each day can also add up to be quite a significant period of missed learning over a week, a term, a year and their school life!

It is also a requirement that schools must record and monitor attendance and absences.

Please ensure that all student absences are reported to the school prior to 9am on the day they are absent. This can be done by:

• Adding an attendance note in Compass (found under “approvals” on the app)
• Calling the school on 5341 3560
• Emailing the school - buninyong.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au 

Thank you for your assistance with this. 

It’s vital that students go to school every day – even in the early years of primary school.

IN VICTORIA SCHOOL IS COMPULSORY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 6 - 17 YEARS

For more information and resources to help address attendance issues, visit:

www.education.vic.gov.au/school/parents/behaviour/Pages/studentattendance.aspx