Great Attendance Equals Great Results

Welcome back to term 3! It has been great to see most of our children back at Bowen State School bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready for learning.

Last semesters reporting results have been finalised and are due out to parents soon. I would like to personally congratulate the majority of our students for their excellent academic results, effort and behaviour from the first half of the year.

When I was going through our results with a fine comb I noticed a very obvious pattern. The vast majority of students who were achieving at year or above, all had attendance rates of 90% or above. Furthermore, of those students who were not achieving at year level expectations here at Bowen State School, nearly all of them had an attendance rate of less than 85%. This trend mimics all of the research out there, however makes it all the more real when it’s our students being affected by this.

School is official open and it is business as usual. If you are still weary of sending your child to school because of the current global health situation, then please contact the school as soon as possible so we can discuss alternative arrangements for your child’s education.

Great attendance equals great results.