Please contact the college as soon as possible on (03) 5023 0538 if your child is absent. Alternatively, provide a written note explaining their absence, Or mark their absence in Compass Parent Portal.
Parents/carers will receive a text message if their child is absent from class. This is a prompt for parents/carers to contact the college to explain their child’s absence from school.
It’s not OK to be away!
If the college has not received an explanation for a student’s absence and the student has not returned to school, the following steps will be applied to establish why the student is absent and support their return to school:
1. Text message
2. Phone call
3. Home visit
4. Referral to external services
Frequent absences impact on a student’s learning and their opportunities to be connected to their peers and their teachers.
It’s important for every student to attend school every day. Students who attend school every day can develop strong, positive, and productive relationships with their peers and their teachers. Attending school every day, enables students to participate in every class and gives them the greatest opportunity to learn and be successful learners.
Parents/carers may also log into the Compass Parental Portal and view their child’s attendance in all subjects, which will also indicate whether they arrived on time to each session.
The Victorian Education Act 1958 requires all students of school age (6 to 17 years) in Victoria, to attend school full-time, unless they are formally exempt. Chaffey Secondary College adheres to the Department of Education and Training policy, which is that all students enrolled in government schools must attend on a full-time basis unless absent with the authority of the school. Parents/carers are responsible for ensuring students attend school every day. The College will seek to reduce barriers to attendance, within the means of its control, and will provide an effective teaching and an engaging learning program.