Attendance Information
For children to do well at school they must be at school. Therefore school attendance and punctuality is very important at Bimbadeen. The following information is designed to help you and the school manage your child's 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 9726 9989 or bimbadeen.heights.ps@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.
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 9726 9989 or email at bimbadeen.heights.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au or log your child’s absence using our Sentral Parent Portal 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 on our website http://www.bimbadeenheightsps.vic.edu.au/policies/
3. Same-day notification of unexplained student absences
Our school will contact you via the Sentral Parent App as soon as practicable on the day if a student is not at school and you haven’t notified the school as to why. If you are notified by the school that your child is away without a reason, please contact us as soon as possible by calling on 9726 9989 or emailing to bimbadeen.heights.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au to let us know where your child is.
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.
4. 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 Sentral, phone or email.
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 Bimbadeen Heights Primary School Attendance Policy which outlines the school’s processes and procedures for monitoring, recording and following-up of student absences is available on our website www.bimbadeenheightps.vic.edu.au
5. Late arrival/early departure
If your child arrives after 9am, please go to the office and sign them in using the Sentral Kiosk screen.
In the same way, if you are signing your child out prior to 3:30pm, please use the Sentral Kiosk screen in the office before collecting your child from class.
