Student Absences:

We have so many ways you can let us know - 

• email away@westernheights.school.nz
• phone 09 8361213  and press 1 and leave a message
• text our school cell phone 0210402125
• our Hero App - available from App Store and Google Play

The Hero App - search the App Store or Google Play by typing in Linc-Ed - is the BEST way to let us know about absences. 

It is so easy to get the right message to the right place and really easy to type in the "reason" for absence. 

Using Hero sends the absence message directly to our office and to your child's teacher and records it in the right place for Ministry requirements - saving office staff having to manually enter it there.

Please do provide a reason for your child's absence when you connect via one of the above methods. We really need more information than just "not in today" or similar.

On that point, please let us know if the absence is likely

 to be for more than one day. Ideally let us know each day that your child is away, not just on the first day. I know that is extra work for you but it saves us so much time and it does a lot to help us to ensure EVERY child is safely accounted for EVERY day.

With sincere thanks.