As a Catholic School operating under DOSCEL (Diocese of Sale Catholic Education Limited), we must adhere to the policies that are created for the safety of all children in our schools.

As such, we need to follow the correct DOSCEL process when your child is absent from school.

Parent/Guardian Responsibilities Are:

- Ring the school before 9:30am to notify of your child's absence and the reason

- Mark your child absent through PAM before 9:00am (PAM will not work after 9am) and give a reason for the absence

When a child is absent without contact from the parent/guardian the school must:

1. Contact the primary parent/guardian

If there is no answer, we then have to contact whoever is named second on the child's contacts.

If we are unable to contact either parent where there are two parents, DOSCEL policy requires us to contact your child's emergency contacts.

Please be aware that this process will be in effect this week.

The easiest thing to do is to make sure that you notify the school when your child is absent from school, first thing in the morning.

Many thanks for your co-operation.