1. Students are told to report to the School Office if they feel unwell or suffer any accident and not to communicate with home until they have done so. Please help us by insisting that your son reports any accident in school, however trivial, immediately to the School Office. Where appropriate, they will be sent up to Pastoral, who will arrange for parents to pick up the unwell student, or to meet us at the hospital. The Pastoral Office also organises the liaison with the school medical services.
2. Please keep us informed, by a separate letter to the School Office, of any medical condition affecting your son/daughter, and any subsequent change or development in that condition. Please also ensure that all parental contact details are up to date.
3. If your son is taking any medication while at school:
If it is prescribed medication, it must be given to the Pastoral Office
If it is not prescribed medication you must provide them with a signed letter from a parent/guardian to allow them to take the medication in school, along with instructions of when/how much medication is to be administered. They may manage non-prescribed medicine themselves for a maximum of one day, but school must still be informed so we are aware should we need to look after them. Medication required for more than one day should be handed into the Pastoral Office as with prescribed medication.
If you wish the Pastoral Office to keep some medicine for emergencies or for regular use, please come and see them to hand over the named container of medicine with appropriate instructions.
4. We distribute information about students to staff only as it is needed for the students’ sake. If there is a matter you wish to keep confidential to the Pastoral Staff, the Form Tutor and Headteacher for example, please advise the Pastoral Staff either by letter, school visit or telephone. We then would only relay that information any further on gaining your permission to do so.
5. Please ensure you keep us up to date with details of your son’s/daughter’s medication and conditions so that we can support them knowing that our information is complete and correct. Please advise us immediately in writing of any changes to your emergency contact details.
6. The protocols outlined in this document are in line with the statutory guidance/advice issued by the DfE in December 2015 – “Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions”.
7. If your child has been sick with symptoms of vomiting or diarrhoea, we ask that they must be clear of these for at least 48 hours before returning to school.