7. School Attendance Agreement

Attendance must be satisfactory for the awarding Preliminary Courses and advancing onto the HSC year. All students who are enrolled at school, regardless of their age, are expected to attend school whenever instruction is provided, unless approved by the Principal for flexible attendance. Unsatisfactory attendance may lead to the issue of N-Warnings due to failure to meet course outcomes. If a student misses a class due to illness, work placement or representing the school, it is their responsibility to catch up on any missed work and ensure that no assessment tasks were handed out during their absences.

Students are expected to be present at school to complete all tasks, submit all assessment tasks and sit all examinations set as part of the assessment program for a course. While principals have discretion to grant leave to a student, leave for holidays will not be granted during term time, and is not grounds for an illness/misadventure application. All course completion, assessment requirements continue to apply, irrespective of whether their leave request is granted or not.

Year 11 students are expected to be on-site for the full school day, except on Wednesday afternoons, as outlined above. They are not permitted to come in late or leave early when they have no timetabled class. Year 11 students must, for the whole school day, be “in bounds”. The library, student learning area outside the library and the Senior Courtyard are all available for study periods. Students are not to visit the shops or leave the school grounds during school time.

Year 12 students, who do not have a class period 1 or 4, are permitted to sign in late or sign out early. Permitted Late Start students must sign in through the Front Office before the end of Period 1 and must be present at assemblies, including the Year assembly. If Year 12 students have no set class period 4 they may sign out at the start of lunch. If students have no timetabled class periods 2, 3 or they have an extension class that afternoon they are to remain at school and study. Study facilities are available to students at school. If it is a parent’s wish for their son/daughter to attend school for the entire duration of the day, then the school will accommodate this request. It is recommended that students who start late access the daily notices on Sentral.

Students may have the privilege of late start or early leave withdrawn for breaches of school expectations, including truanting, unsatisfactory course work and unsatisfactory behaviour.

Individual variations to these rules will be at parental request to the Principal. The Principal will make a determination after considering safety, individual maturity and student progress.

Senior Agreement

Muirfield High School