Medical Matters
Children With Medical Conditions
Parents are asked to indicate to the school any medical conditions, which might affect their child’s schooling. It is vital that the school is aware of eyesight or hearing problems.
Absence
Please contact the school or leave a message on the pupil absence line before 9.30am to advise if your child is going to be absent from school due to sickness.
Guidence of Infections
As you may already be aware we do have pupils in our school who need additional medical care. In order to safeguard theses children please contact the school office on 01482 374675 as soon as possible to report if your child has:
- Chicken Pox
- Measles
- Shingles
- Strep A
- Scarlet Fever
- Parvovirus US B19
Rashes and Skin Infections
| INFECTION OR COMPLAINT | RECOMMENDED PERIOD TO BE KEPT AWAY FROM SCHOOL |
| Athlete's foot | None |
| Chickenpox | Until all vesicles have crusted over |
| Cold sores (Herpes simplex) | None |
| German Measles (Rubella) | Four days from onset of rash |
| Hand, foot and mouth | None |
| Impetigo | Until lesions are crusted and healed or 48 hours after starting antibiotic treatment |
| Measles | Four days from onset of rash |
| Molluscum contagiosum | None |
| Ringworm | Exclusion not usually required |
| Roseola (infantum) | None |
| Scabies | Child can return after first treatment |
| Scarlet fever | Child can return 24 hours after starting appropriate antibiotic treatment |
| Slapped cheek / fifth disease, parvovirus | None (once rash has developed) |
| Shingles | Keep child off school ONLY if the rash is weeping and cannot be covered |
| Warts and verrucae | None |
RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS
| INFECTION OR COMPLAINT | RECOMMENDED PERIOD TO BE KEPT AWAY FROM SCHOOL |
| Flu (influenza) | Until recovered |
| Tuberculosis | Consult your local PHE centre |
| Whooping cough (pertussis) | Five days from starting antibiotic treatment or 21 says from onset of illness if no antibiotics. |
DIARRHOEA AND VOMINTING ILLNESS
| INFECTION OR COMPLAINT | RECOMMENDED PERIOD TO BE KEPT AWAY FROM SCHOOL |
| Diarrhoea and/or vomiting | 48 hours from the last episode of diarrhoea or vomiting |
|
E. Coli 0157 VTEC, Typhoid (and paratyphoid) (enteric fever) Shingella (dysentery) |
Should be excluded for 48 hours from the last episode of diarrhoea. Further exclusion may be required for some children until they are no longer excreting. |
| Cryptosporidiosis | 48 hours from the last episode of diarrhoea |
OTHER INFECTIONS
| INFECTION OR COMPLAINT | RECOMMENDED PERIOD TO BE KEPT AWAY FROM SCHOOL |
| Conjunctivitis | None however conjunctivitis is contagious |
| Diphtheria | Exclusion is essential. Always consult local HPT |
| Glandular fever | None |
| Headlice | None (immediate treatment is recommended especially where live lice can be seen) |
| Hepatitis A | Seven days after the onset of jaundice (or seven days after onset of symptoms if no jaundice) |
| Hepatitis B, C, HIV/AIDS | None |
| Meningococcal meningitis / septicaemia | Until recovered |
| Meningitis due to other bacteria | Until recovered |
| Meningitis viral | None |
| MRSA | None |
| Mumps | Five days after onset of swelling |
| Threadworms | None |
| Tonsillitis | None |
Management of Headlice
Headlice are extremely common in close-knit environments such as schools. As soon as the child has been treated they can return to school.
Medicines in School
From time to time your child may be well enough to attend school but requires medicine throughout the day. In this situation, all medicines must be brought to the school office and must NOT go to your child's class. On the first day that medication is required, we will ask you to complete a medication form to provide details of the medication and parents/carers giving consent for the school to administer the required medicine.
For the duration of the time the medication is needed, it must be dropped off and collected at the office every day.
First Aid in School
We have a number of staff qualified to undertake first aid. If the member of staff feels it is serious enough for you to be aware of your child will either bring home a note giving details of the incident or the member of staff will try to contact you by telephone to ensure you are informed should further treatment become necessary.
Please see below relevant policies you may find useful
Unwell Children
Parents are contacted by telephone whenever a child is considered to be too ill to remain in school.
For this reason it is vital that the school has up-to-date Home and Work telephone numbers to ring in the event of an emergency.
In the case of serious accidents, pupils are sent, or taken to, the casualty department at Hull Royal Infirmary for treatment.
In such a situation the parents are consulted first if this is at all possible. All serious accidents are reported on a standard form, which is submitted, to the Education Authority.