Attendance Matters
Why attendance is important
Daily attendance is important so students don’t fall behind socially and developmentally.
School helps:
- maximise life opportunities for students by building education and support networks
- develop important skills, knowledge and values that set them further ahead in their learning and participation in the community
- students make the most of life opportunities.
Children and young people who regularly attend school and complete year 12, or an equivalent qualification, have:
- better health outcomes
- better employment outcomes
- higher incomes across their lives.
Regularly missing school may be an indicator of disengagement, leading to adverse outcomes. It is an easily observable warning sign.
A child missing one day a fortnight will miss four weeks in a year, and more than a year of school by Year 10. It is important that children develop regular attendance habits at an early age.
