Regular attendance at school is important to your child’s success and there is a clear connection between going to school regularly and doing well in the classroom.

Making sure students attend and engage in learning is a shared responsibility. As a parent, you are responsible for making sure your child attends school every day and we have systems at school for monitoring student attendance and supporting parents if barriers to attendance emerge.

You can view your child’s attendance information on the Edge App. This is updated in real time.

Something to think about; If a student misses one day of school every two weeks, they miss more than a whole year of school by 16 years of age.  As a parent or caregiver, you, alongside our school, play a key role in building strong habits of regular school attendance.

All students are legally required to attend school every day and it is a shared responsibility to make sure students attend and engage in learning from when they first start school.  You must let the school know if your child is going to be absent or intends to be absent for a portion of the school term for whatever reason, like a tangi or medical procedure.  Family holidays or taking time off for extracurricular activities (not organised by school) are not acceptable reasons for being absent.

We ask parents/caregivers to please take school attendance seriously and work with us if this becomes a challenge for whatever reason.