If your child has an accident or becomes ill during the school day, we will contact you to take him/her home. In the case of sickness or diarrhoea it is important that your child should remain at home for at least 24 hours. Please ensure that we have an up-to-date telephone number (home and work) for you and someone else who can collect your child in an emergency.
Please do not send your child to school with medicines (including cough sweets, lip salves etc.) as we are unable to give them to children, unless it is for a long term treatment (e.g. inhalers for asthma)
With regard to prescribed medicines such as antibiotics, please ensure that if a dose is required 3 times a day that this is administered at home outside of school hours. If the dosage is 4 times a day, parents or adult responsible may come into school to administer this, but the school office must be notified.
All infectious diseases must be reported to the school as soon as possible. If your child needs to be absent from school it would be appreciated if you would let us know by letter, telephone or e-mail as quickly as possible as unauthorised absences are monitored and published. If your child is unwell please telephone the school before 10am.
It should be noted that if we do not have a reason for absence an unauthorised absence will be marked in the register. Class registers are regularly inspected by our Educational Welfare Officer and an accumulation or pattern of absences or late marks will be investigated. Please address requests for special leave of absence tot he head teacher.