Assistant Principal

Meredith Clegg

Term 1 and 2 Attendance Data

Late Arrivals to School and the Strike 3 Late Arrival Process

It is so important that your child arrives at school on time every day to ensure that their learning opportunities are fully maximised. Last week there were 122 students late to school! This equates to 122 classroom interruptions in just one week!   Those interruptions are not fair to the teacher, to the other students in the class and to your child if they are the cause of the interruption.

Our goal is to continue reducing late arrivals of our students/your children to school. We aim to work together with our community to improve students’ learning by ensuring students attend on time.

This year the 3 Strike Late Arrival Process is again being implemented. This will involve teachers issuing a green coloured Strike 1, 2 or 3 notice each time a child arrives to the classroom after the bell. Medically related appointments are an exception, however, please inform the teacher that this is the case, and also try to make these appointments out of school time where possible.

On the fourth late arrival in a term, the Principal/ Assistant Principal will contact you to discuss strategies which may help improve your child’s punctuality.  We understand that there are occasions where late arrivals are unavoidable and this may result in children receiving only one trike in that term. At the end of each term, accumulated strikes are deleted.

Our greatest concern is to address the children who are ‘consistently’ late to school as this impacts greatly on their own learning, but also interrupts the learning of all the other children.