Attendance - Every Moment Matters
When your child attends school every day, learning becomes easier and your child will build and maintain friendships with other children.
Deputy Premier, Minister for Education and Early Learning Prue Car said:
“The data shows that NSW students who develop positive attendance behaviour in Year 7 are, on average, three months ahead in their learning by Year 9.”
The NSW Government has recently launched a campaign to increase student attendance rates and bring the number of students in classrooms back to pre-COVID levels. CCSP highlighted the importance of school attendance in Parent Talk Issue 1 2023, sharing a fact sheet produced by Catholic Schools Office Diocese of Lismore. Parents and carers can help foster positive school attendance habits by:
- helping their child learn the importance of punctuality and routine
- ensuring their child arrives on time from the start of the school day, ready to participate in learning
- reducing disruption to school by planning any necessary appointments outside of school time
- promptly communicating any absence to the school
- planning holidays during school holidays
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