Student Services

Attendance and SMS Messaging

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 to these messages in a positive and timely manner. Remember – these messages are to ensure thesafety 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, SMS, or direct contact through the Administration office.

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.

The message will read as follows:

CBSHS (Form Class) records show Johnny Smith is absent today 12/05/24. Please provide reason by reply SMS or phone 9965 8339.

A similar message will be sent for unexplained lateness. The message will arrive on the phone displaying the number “0407 381 061”.

Please store this number in your mobile phone under “Champion Bay Senior High School” so that when the message arrives, you are aware the message has come from the school.

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 SMS 0407 381 061: When replying via SMS, parents should always include the student name in the message and Form Class (if known) e.g. 8.3.
• phoning the Student Services Reception 9965 8339.
• 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.