Student Attendance
Your role in supporting attendance
Schools, in partnership with parents/carers, are responsible for promoting the regular attendance of students.
Every day counts, as regular attendance helps students to:
- develop a sense of belonging
- develop and maintain friendships
- be more engaged at school
- progress with their learning
- be more aware of career and life options.
Supporting positive school attendance is a shared responsibility - everyone has a role.
Individual roles to support attendance
Individual roles to support attendance
Parents/Carers
When your child attends school every day, learning becomes easier and your child will build and maintain friendships with other children.
Parents and carers can help foster positive attendance habits by:
- helping their child learn the importance of punctuality and routine
- ensuring their child arrives on time from the start of the school day, ready to participate in learning
- reducing disruption to learning where possible, by planning any necessary appointments outside of school time
- promptly communicating any absence to the school (within 7 days of the first day of any absence)
- working with the school to encourage and support regular attendance.
Students
Regular attendance at school helps you to maximise your potential.
You can help by:
- knowing what class activities are on which school day (for example, which day is sport or library)
- making sure you're ready for each school day: uniform, books, bag, lunch
- chatting with family, a friend or teacher if you have concerns about attending school, or something is making it difficult to get to school
- asking a teacher for help if school work is challenging.