Student Services

Attendance

At Champion Bay Senior High School, student attendance is one of our highest priorities. We know that students who attend regularly are more likely to be successful in later life and safe when they are at school.

REGULAR ATTENDANCE means 90% attendance or better

If your child’s attendance is less than 90% then they are considered to be “At Risk”.

Helpful hint: use your child’s diary to inform our school of any absences.

To improve our attendance procedures, we will be informing parents/caregivers about any unexplained absences for their child. Our school expects a response to this information in order to explain the absence.

Parents will be informed by mobile phone message (SMS) each time their child is away from our school. Please respond via the link provided to these messages in a positive and timely manner. Remember – these messages are to ensure the safety of your child.

Our school expects parents/caregivers to contact the school by 9.00am if they know their child is going to be absent. This can be done by phone, email or Connect.

An SMS text message will automatically be sent to the mobile phones of relevant parents explaining that our records show that their child is absent from school, if absences have occurred. There is no phone number associated with this message, the contact will automatically show up as ‘CBSHS’.

The message will read as follows:

Johnny has been marked absent as of 09:30 AM 01/06/2025. Submit note here: mpass.co/.xxxxxxx or contact the school.

A similar message will be sent for unexplained lateness.

This is a service provided by our school. Parents/caregivers are asked to respond appropriately to these messages.

Parents should then reply by:

• using the link provided in the SMS.
• phoning the school on 9965 8300 and pressing (option) 1 for attendance.
• sending a note or acknowledgement in the student diary, on their child’s return to school. If a child is absent and a reason has already been provided to the school, then parents will not receive an SMS as the absence will be “Explained”.
• sending a message via Connect to notify of absences.