Important Information regarding Attendance, Collection of students and TYRO
- It is extremely important that all parents and guardians have an active TYRO account.
All Parents and Guardians have been issued with access emails with instructions on how to access the TYRO app.
If you have not received your access email, please contact [email protected] and we will endeavour to assist in access.
- Although Parents are able to and encouraged to notify the school via the app of appointments and instances of early leaving from school, No student is permitted to leave campus unless accompanied by a parent/guardian.
- Parents or Guardians must present to the main office of the school and sign students out with the secretaries. Students are not permitted to leave the school unless this happens.
- All Parents are encouraged to regularly check the TYRO app for live data regarding lesson attendance, punctuality, positive and negative behaviour entries and school notifications.
- Each morning following the end of 1st period, Parents/Guardians are notified of all applicable school absences and lates via the TYRO app inbuild email.
- Under the law, every child must attend school regularly up to sixteen years of age or complete at least three years education in a post primary school whichever comes later.
As a parent, you must let the school know if your child is absent and the reasons why. It is school policy that reasons must be given in writing. The school will notify Tusla – Child and Family Agency if a child is absent for 20 days or more or where the absence gives rise to concern.
In accordance with our Attendance Strategy and the Education Act, The school will make contact to inform you of excessive absences when the number of days amassed reaches five, ten and fifteen days.
Here in PCH, we ask that you email [email protected] to explain your child’s absence, at your earliest convenience.
If your child is sick or is absent for other good reasons, no action will be taken by Tusla – Child and Family Agency. However, if there is concern about your child’s attendance at school or about the reasons given, such as continued unexplained absences, you may be visited by an Educational Welfare Officer who will discuss your child’s education with you. The Officer will work with you and take full account of the circumstances of the child and the family before deciding what further action is necessary to ensure that the child receives his/her entitlement to an education.
Further information concerning school attendance matters generally can be obtained from the national Lo-Call Education Helpline –
1890 36 36 66, and form this website; https://www.tusla.ie/tess/information-for-parents-and-guardians-tess/education-welfare-service/
