BVSD Reasons for Staying Home

ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES for New Vista High School

1. CALL IN excused absences on the same day as the absence. Leave a message with the following information: Student’s full name, your name, the date you called, the day for which you are excusing your student and reason for absence. This is a 24 hour a day message line:

720-561-8702

OR SEND A WRITTEN NOTE to the Attendance Office OR you may FAX your note to 720-561-8701.

 Pre-arranged extended absences (request form) of 4 school days or more MUST be excused in advance by the Principal or Assistant Principal and your student's teachers.  (Missing 4 days at NVHS is like missing eight days of school at a semester long high school.)

(Missing 3 days at NVHS is like missing one week+ and missing 5 days at NVHS equals losing 2 weeks of school at a semester long high school.)

2. Students check in only with the office with an excused tardy. All other tardies go directly to class.
ALL NOTES from parents MUST go to the office, not to the teacher.

3. Students MUST check out with the office when leaving campus for ANY reason. This includes leaving for a doctor’s appointment, when he/she feels ill and wishes to go home, or any reason a student is not attending his/her scheduled class. These need to be excused by a parent.

WORKSHOPS are the same as any NVHS class - please call the office with any absences.

COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE: Students are responsible for notifying their Community Experience mentor if they are going to be absent.

Automated Attendance Calls and Emails

An automated attendance dialer system, using our data base, will make calls home between 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. on the day of the absence. Email messages and text messages (if you want the text messages) are sent at the same time.

Please answer your phone during this time frame.

The caller ID will say BVSD. An automated message states: “This is a very important message from BVSD; please listen carefully. Hello this is New Vista High School calling about attendance of (your student’s name) was absent today, missing periods from………please call the office at 720-561-8702 to let us know why”

PLEASE check your answering machine, and/or e-mail daily.

Respond by leaving a message as to whether or not the absence is excused. Call 720-561-8702

PLEASE NOTE:

Lack of parent response to attendance calls and repeated tardiness will result in lunch detention. All absences or tardies (excused or unexcused) will lower your student’s grade.

No response from a parent = unexcused absence.  

Unexcused absence = Impact on grade and/or detention"

No response from a parent = unexcused absence
Unexcused absence = Detention --Unserved Detention = in-school suspenion

Please excuse your student the same day as the absence. The school will not accept excuses after one week following the absence.

Please do not excuse poor choices.

PERIOD ABSENCE REFERENCE:

Period 1 = 1st Period – 7:35 – 8:35 a.m.
Periods 2 & 3 = AM BLOCK - Seminar on Wednesday – 8:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Period 4 = Advisory Check-In on Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri. - 10:55 – 11:05 a.m.
Periods 4 & 5 = Advisory/ Community Gathering on Wednesday - 10:55 – 11:30 a.m.
Periods 5, & 6 = Advisory on Mon & Thurs – Seminar on Tues & Fri 11:05 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Periods 9, 10, 11 = PM BLOCK – 1:05 – 3:05 p.m. OR
(Period 9 = 1st Hour PM class 1:05 – 2:00 p.m. Periods 10 & 11 = 2nd Hour PM class 2:10 – 3:05 p.m.)
Periods 8, 9, 10 = Workshop on Wednesday 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Period 12 = Additional classes such as Community Experience, LUC, TEC, Four Days in May, or any other for-credit class not listed on our regular schedule