Student Attendance
Regular attendance at school is essential.
Parents are reminded that regular and prompt attendance at schools extremely important. An ill child should not be in school, since this may result in his/her health being impaired further and may result in other children being exposed to a communicable disease. However, every effort should be made to have the child in school each day he/she is able to attend. The following procedures are to be followed when your children are absent from school.
- When your child is to be absent from school, you are requested to notify the appropriate school office by telephone of such absence. Staff will be on duty to take these calls at the elementary schools between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
- Failure to telephone in an absence each and every day that a child is out of school will result in a telephone call from the school to you during that same day.
- The first day that a child returns to school after an absence, you are requested to send a note, to be delivered to the school office, with the following information:
- The date(s) of absences,
- The specific reason for absence,
- Your signature.
Illness
Assignments missed due to illness will be given one day per day of absence to complete missed work. Requests for homework should be given to the office before 11:00 a.m. Requested homework will be available in the office at the end of the school day.
Summit Hill School District 161 appreciates parents taking an active role in the child's education both at school and at home.
Vacation
Assignments will be given when the student returns from vacation. Assignments need to be completed within a week. If not completed, students will receive a zero.