Attendance
Our attendance procedures ensure students are accounted for during schools’ hours. This allows school staff to identify and respond to student attendance concerns.
We have a stepped attendance response to ensure we can identify students and offer appropriate interventions at the thresholds to support students to return to regular attendance.
Please report all absences to the Student Office - absences@shcs.school.nz
For attendance related enquiries, please contact Attendance Manager, Ms Kat Harpur - kharpur@shcs.school.nz
Student attendance policies and procedures are accessible to the school community via the SchoolDocs website: https://shcs.schooldocs.co.nz
If you would like to view the policies and procedures of our school, you will be asked to enter a username and password as follows:
- Username: shcs
- Password: cobden
PARENT/WHĀNAU RESPONSIBILITIES
● Ensure students attend every day they are able
● Reinforce good attendance habits
● Open communication with the school
● Follow the school’s attendance management plan and associated attendance policies and procedures
See here to view the full Attendance Management Plan and supporting STAR procedures:
SCHOOL RESPONSIBILITIES
● Clear communication to parents and students on attendance expectations on enrolment, at the start of the year and each term
● Communicate to parents what steps the school will take if the student is absent from school
● Monitor student attendance
● Provide students with regular updates on their own attendance
● Report regularly to parents on attendance of their child
