Attendance phone line: spectrum_attendance@sd61.bc.ca

PARENTS/GUARDIANS can report an absence by:

1. Email: spectrum_attendance@sd61.bc.ca
2. Student can bring a note signed by a parent/guardian. Notes should be handed in to the Office.

When reporting an absence, please include:

1. Student’s name
2. Your name and relationship to the student
3. The date and the times the student will be missing, for example:

• student will be missing all day
• student will miss 1st block
• student will be leaving at lunch and returning halfway through their 3rd block
• student will be leaving in the middle of last block

4. The reason your student is missing, for example:

• Sick
• Medical/dental appointment
• School-related event
• Family matters

Please note:

1. Students can not excuse themselves from school.
2. Students are expected to sign in/out at the office when they leave early or arrive late; this includes students who have been excused by a parent/guardian.
3. If a student comes to the office to sign out and the school has not been contacted by a parent/guardian, the school will call the parent/guardian to inform or to confirm the absence.
4. If the school is not contacted by a parent/guardian for an absence, you will receive an automated phone message that evening.

Please contact the office, if you have any questions or you believe there is a discrepancy with your student’s attendance.