Health
Sick or Injured Children
Parents are advised that they will be contacted at home or work if it is felt that their child is too sick to remain at school, or if some form of medical attention is needed. The school has very limited first aid facilities and only minor care can be given by school staff.
School Health Checks
On enrolling their children parents are required to fill in a medical card, or if transferring from another West Australian State School, have it sent on. From time to time members of the School Health Services carry out checks and examinations of children. A nurse visits the school weekly on Tuesdays and parents who feel they should contact her about a medical matter can do so through the school.
Routine screening
This is done for all children at these Year levels:
Pre Primary - Immunisations (to be notified of arrangements)
Pre-Primary - Vision and Hearing and General Health
Year 1 - Vision and Hearing for those who didn’t get this done in Pre Primary
Year 7 - Scoliosis checks
Year 7 - Immunisations (Hepatitis B, Diphtheria and Tetanus)
Immunisation Policy
Upon enrolment all parents are requested to provide a photocopy of their child’s immunisation records. It is Health Department policy to exclude children who are incompletely immunised from attending school during outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.
Communicable and Infectious Diseases
There are a number of illnesses which require that the child be excluded from school for a period of time. Some of the more common ones are Chicken Pox, Measles, Mumps, Ringworm and School Sores but there are many others. If you have a sick child and are in doubt about whether or not they should attend school please contact the Health nurse or school to discuss the matter.
