All schools in Queensland are committed to providing safe and supportive learning environments for all students which address their educational needs.
Tin Can Bay P-10 State School attendance policy aims to ensure all students are able to achieve the Tin Can Bay P-10 State School three agreements, in particular, Be a Learner.
The policy is key to achieving our school's Explicit Improvement Agenda - the TCB 3.
Tin Can Bay P-10 State School expects:
- All students to attend every school day unless the student has a reasonable excuse as defined under the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006.
- All absences to be explained on the next day that the student returns to school following absence or beforehand if an absence is known to be going to occur.
Our Targets for Attendance are:
- 91% average attendance or better
- more than 40% of students with better than 95% attendance
School community beliefs about the importance of attending school
It is important that students, staff and parents/carers have a shared understanding of the importance of attending school.
Tin Can Bay P-10 State School
- is committed to promoting the key messages of Every Day Counts and believes improved attendance requires a holistic approach:
- Quality monitoring and procedural responses
- Strategic and coordinated leadership and delivery
- Parent and community engagement
- Student engagement
At Tin Can Bay P-10 State School, we believe:
- all children should be enrolled at school and attend school all day, every school day
- attendance is improved where there is a school culture of support, good relationships between all member so the school and ocmmunity and quality teaching and learning leading to positive engagement.
- attendance at school is the responsibility of everyone in the community.
- students should play a role in monitoring their attendance and be encouraged and rewarded for high or improved attendance.
- increased attendance leads to increased likelihood of academic success and social and emotional competence.
- regular lateness to school will impact on student's academic success.
- truanting can place a student in unsafe situations and impact on their future employability and life choices.
At Tin Can Bay P-10 State School, we are committed to achieving a high attendance rate for all of our students, and have implemented processes across the school to reach our targets.
Daily text messages and ongoing letters are sent to parents/carers to enourage explanation, where a reason has not been provided for a student absence.
If your child is absent, please advise the office by:
- emailing studentabsences@tincanbayss.eq.edu.au
- phoning 54881222
- completing an absentee slip (periodically sent home with newsletters or available from the office)
- replying to text messages sent out daily for unexplained absences
Please refer to the poster to see how absences can affect your child.
A full copy of our Attendance Policy is available for your information.