Melbourne Girls' College

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, through the Compass Parent Portal. 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.

 

Attendance Notifications

 

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.

 

As of Monday 7th May, we have changed the way we make our attendance notifications to parents:

  • Notifications will now occur at 11am, rather than 10.30am. This is to ensure that students have had at least one class prior to the notification being generated (for example, VCE students have a spare period on Mondays Period 1). If your child has been marked ‘Not Present’ by all of the teachers for Periods 1 and/or 2, you will receive a notification.
  • Parents will receive both an SMS and an email alerting them to the unexplained absence.

These notifications will continue to be sent to the primary family’s SMS and email.

 

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

 

Are your contact details up to date?

 

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 9428 8955 or melbourne.girls.co@edumail.vic.gov.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.

 

More information is available from http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/participation/Pages/attendance.aspx

 

Brent Houghton

Assistant Principal