Dear families,
One of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all students arrive safely at school each day.
Salt Springs Elementary will be using a new student attendance system that will reduce
the time it takes to verify student attendance, make it easy for you to
report your child’s absence and easy for staff to respond to unexplained
student absences.
Starting October 31st 2022, please report absences in
advance using SafeArrival instead of sending notes or calling/emailing
the school. As of DATE, staff will being using the SafeArrival
notifications to let you know if your student is absent (when you
haven’t reported the absence in advance).
If you have children
attending other schools, please continue to report absences using the
existing procedures for those schools until they share they are also
moving to SafeArrival.
WHAT IS SAFE ARRIVAL?
Safe Arrival
is a phone app that allows parents and guardians to notify the school
in advance about an upcoming absence or rapidly respond to excuse an
absence after the fact. In both situations, parents can send attendance
alerts to schools for all of their children and provide a reason for
each absence – all in one simple communication.
USING SAFE ARRIVAL
With SafeArrival, you are asked to report your child’s absence in advance using any of these 3 convenient methods:
1.
Using your mobile device, download and install the SchoolMessenger app
from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store (or from the links
go.schoolmessenger.ca). The first time you use the app, select Sign Up
to create your account. Select Attendance then Report an Absence.
2.
Use the SafeArrival website, go.schoolmessenger.ca. The first time you
use the website, select Sign Up to create your account. Select
Attendance then Report an Absence.
3. Call the toll-free number [1-833-578-0533] to report an absence using the automated phone system.
These options are available 24 hours/day, 7 days a week. Future absences can be reported at any time.
ATTENDANCE NOTIFICATIONS
The
automated notification system will contact parents whose child is
absent when the absence was not reported in advance. Families will
receive a notice 30 minutes after the start of the school day.
The
automated notification system will attempt to contact parents at
multiple contact points until a reason is submitted for the absence. If
our system is unable to reach the designated contacts, office staff will
follow up.
If you report your child’s absence in advance using
the SafeArrival toll-free number, website or mobile app, you will NOT
receive these notifications.
There is information for using this app located in the "For Parents" sections of this website.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation as we implement this new system.