Our school doors are always locked. In order to enter the school, the buzzer located at the front entrance must be activated and then office will open the doors.
Consistency in attendance also allows students to build a sense of routine and life skills around accountability, punctuality, and time management – all habits supporting long-term success. Regular attendance and being on time are essential for school success.
Students are expected to be in attendance and at school on time each school day except for instances of personal illness or family emergencies. At the beginning of each morning and afternoon, staff members take attendance.
When a student has missed a number of days of school, communication will be made with parents/caregivers. If a pattern of missed school persists, our attendance counsellor may be contacted. Please contact the school if there will be prolonged periods of absence for a student. It is the student’s responsibility to complete work missed during periods of absence.
Grand Erie uses a student absence reporting system called SafeArrival. This system makes it easy for you to report your child’s absence and easy for staff to respond to unexplained student absences.
Using SafeArrival, please report your child’s absence in advance using any of these three convenient methods:
These options are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Future absences can be reported at any time. There are a number of different absence reasons to select.
We use an automated notification system to contact parents/caregivers whose child is absent when the absence was not reported in advance. If this system is unable to reach the designated contacts, office staff will follow up. If a parent/caregiver has reported an absence in advance through SafeArrival, they will not receive these notifications.
Please advise the school of student absences, early departures or late arrivals using the Safe arrivals app, or by contacting the office or your child's classroom teacher.
When picking up your child from school for an appointment, you must report to the office and have the office staff call your child out of class via our intercom system. Students leaving in the middle of the day must be signed out at the office and signed back in at the office if they return.
