SafeArrival
New Safe Arrival System
Starting Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Dear Parent/Guardian,
At Kate Andrews High School, one of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all our students arrive safely to school each and every day. As a part of our safe arrival process, a daily absence check is conducted by office staff and often involves:
- Checking phone and/or email messages left by parents regarding sick calls for students
- Contacting parents whose child is absent but no notification has been made to the school
- Recording all absences in the attendance system
This process can be inefficient and time consuming for schools and for parents.
To enhance our existing absence check procedure, Palliser Regional Schools is introducing a new, more efficient student absence or late arrival reporting system. This new system will reduce the time it takes to verify student attendance making it easier for you to report your child’s absence and easier for staff to respond to unaccounted student absences.
We will be introducing a new absence reporting system to our parent community, called SafeArrival. It will allow parents to report their child’s absence quickly and conveniently in one of three ways:
- Parents can call into an automated interactive telephone system via a toll-free number (1-844-260-7166) through which absences can be reported.
- Parents can log into a website, http://prs26.schoolconnects.com to authenticate their Portal account to report absences and update contact information.
- Parents who have authenticated their accounts and have either an iOS or Android device can download the SafeArrival app that can be used to report absences.
As of April 24, 2017, accounts will be generated and parents will be able to report absences.
The system will be available 24 hours/day, 7 days a week. Future absences can be reported at any time.
In conjunction with SafeArrival, we will continue to use the existing SchoolConnects system, which is an automated notification system to contact parents who have not reported their child absent. The automated notification system will contact parents at multiple contact numbers until one of the designated contacts is reached. If our system is unable to reach a designated contact after 20 minutes, office staff will follow up.
By reporting your child absent in advance using the SafeArrival toll free number, you will NOT receive a call.
We will start using our new absence reporting system on Tuesday, May 2, 2017.
As of Monday, May 1, 2017, all absence and late arrival reporting must go through the toll free number. Please do not contact or send notes to the school or classroom teacher to report an absence or late arrival.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation during this transition period to better ensure the safety of all our children.
Kate Andrews High School
Harry Fritschy