October 10, 2019

One of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all our students arrive safely to school every day.  To improve our safe arrival process, we are adding a new system that will make it easier for you to report and respond to school absences of your student.

The new student absence reporting system will let you use a mobile app, a web site, or an interactive toll-free phone line to report an absence in advance.  As a result, it will take the school less time to verify student attendance, and less time to begin to notify parents and guardians of absences that were unexpected or unplanned.

If your student is marked absent and the absence hasn’t been explained in advance, our new SafeArrival system will be able to rapidly contact you by automated phone call, text message, email or mobile app push notification to get a reason for the absence.  Calls and contacts will continue until you choose an option to explain the absence.

This, automated SafeArrival process is part of our SchoolMessenger notification system.  It’ll be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to make it convenient for you to report future absences. 

Please use the toll free number, 1-833-294-4838, the website, go.schoolmessenger.ca​ or the SchoolMessenger mobile app to report your child’s absence in advance. 

Please note that your child will still have to sign in at the office when arriving late to school, or when leaving school early.

Sincerely,

Patty Oxford
Principal