We recognise that students need to attend school on a regular basis to gain the maximum benefit from schooling and optimise their life opportunities. We understand that for maximum transfer of knowledge, 95% attendance is necessary. Attendance rates lower than 95% could impact on academic standards.

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Creaney Primary Schools' attendance plan is closely aligned to the Department of Education's Better Attendance Brighter Futures Strategy. 

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Attending school every day enables your child to get the most from their education and create a bright future.

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To clarify the difference between late and absent, a student needs to attend a minimum of 2 hours and 5 minutes in an ‘AM’ or ‘PM’ session to be considered present. The midpoint of our school day is 11:45am, so if a student arrives to school after 9:40am (2 hours and 5 minutes deducted from the midpoint), their ‘AM’ attendance will be recorded as absent. Similarly in the afternoon, if a student leaves school before 1:50pm (2 hours and 5 minutes added to the midpoint), their ‘PM’ attendance will be recorded as absent.​​

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At Creaney Primary School we have a mobile phone messaging system to communicate student unexplained absences to parents/guardians.

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Please SMS your child's absence to 0437 156 748 stating child's name/date and reason for absence before 9:30am. 

 

The communication system uses Short Messaging Service (SMS) and will send text messages to parent/guardian mobile phones when your child is absent from school (when an explanation has not already been provided). Our computer system will automatically send parents a message if a child is absent, that will read similar to this:

CPS records show Frank Smart is absent Mon 12/02/2025. Please reply SMS with student name/reason/date.

 

​The SMS is designed to advise parents that, according to school records, the student is absent and no reason has been provided to the school.​ It is a legal requirement that parents contact the school regarding any student absences or reasons for lateness. If an explanation for the absence has been provided prior to 9.45am each morning, then parents will not receive an SMS.

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​An SMS message will be sent to all numbers listed as Parent Guardian 1, prompting you to save the number in your contacts list as Creaney absences. This will ensure that you are able to access the number easily to notify us of a student absence by 9:30am.