CHILDREN WITH HIGH HEALTH NEEDS - Allergies In 2012 we have 8 children (Ruma 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 12) at our school who have severe allergic reactions to the following:
Particularly with the eggs & nuts, children do not need to eat/touch these products directly themselves, they can have a severe reaction just by touching a pencil that another child has touched after being in contact with the product. When these children react severely they need urgent medical attention, and in the past have been hospitalised. These children are pretty good at monitoring what they eat, but they can’t control not touching things contaminated by other children / adults. Therefore we are asking parents to be thoughtful about what they pack into lunchboxes. The key ingredients to be wary of are nuts and nut products (e.g. peanut butter, nutella), and products with lumps of egg in (e.g. egg sandwiches, bacon and egg pie, hard boiled eggs). Please talk to your children about how they can help to support their school mates by:
Sun Safety Policy Children are expected to wear their hats when they are outside during the summer terms – term 4 and term 1. Children who do not have their hat will be asked to sit in the shade outside R1-3 at break times, or in the nearest shade at other times. 'Bucket hats' with the school name on are available from the office for $15. We also encourage children to wear protective clothing during the summer months, or at least to have their shoulders covered. Please make sure that your child has a high factor sun screen on before coming to school. Sun block is available in each classroom. Teachers encourage children to reapply it before breaks Student Health Dental Service The Community School Dental Clinic for Richmond Road School is at Ponsonby Intermediate School. Address: 33 Sheehan Street Ponsonby Phone: 3766327 Parents can phone the above number for queries or to make an appointment. Public Health Nurse The Public Health Nurse visits our school on a Friday morning. If you have any concerns about your child’s health and would like them seen by the Public Health Nurse, please let your child’s teacher or the school office know. Vision and Hearing Twice yearly, the Vision and Hearing Team visit the school to test all new entrants and any referrals from prior visits. Fire and Earthquake Drills These are held each term. For fire, a continuous bell will signal teachers to evacuate children to the assembly point. In the event of a real fire, children can be released to parents from this point once the roll has been called. For earthquake emergencies children will seek shelter under tables and in doorways. A continuous bell will sound when it is considered safe for children to move to the assembly area. The collection of children will proceed as above. Medication School staff cannot administer medication at school without written permission from the parents. The Medical Information section of the Pre-Enrolment form needs to be completed before medication can be administered. For the safety of others students must not administer or hold their own medication. If a student becomes sick at school the parents will be contacted to take them home, hence the need for current telephone contact numbers. Road Safety Our Year 6 children take duty as Traffic Wardens. Please help them and set a good example by using the patrolled crossing and reinforcing good road sense at all times. We ask parents collecting children not to double or Triple Park but if necessary, park further away and walk to collect children. | To ensure the safety of our children after 3pm, including if they attend extra-curricular activities outside of school hours, or After School Care. PLEASE HELP US TO KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE School begins promptly at 8:55am and ends at 3:00pm. Your children’s days are very busy, so they will settle better if they have time to get themselves organized first. To achieve this, we suggest children arrive between 8:30am and 8:45am. For the teachers to help your child to achieve to their best, it is very important that your child attends school every day. However, if your child is sick please:
Safe Kids (website - injury prevention) Safety at 3pm Parents need to:
Office Staff need to:
Organisers need to:
Class Teachers need to:
Personal Safety Rules (extracted from our 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' programme, copysheet 16 - Home Book Activity) You may like to talk about these as a family and decide if they are rules you want to follow too. - Make sure someone at home or at school knows where you are and when you will be home. - Go straight to school and go home without stopping to talk to anyone you don't know. - Always walk to school with your mum, dad, an adult you trust or some other children. - Stand well away from someone you don't know who tries to talk to you. - Run away fast to somewhere safe if someone you don't know asks you to come close to them or wants you to do something. - If someone tries to grab you, yell loudly, and kick and struggle as hard as you can. - If anyone touches you in a way you don't like, or wants to do something you don't want to do, get away quickly and tell your parents or someone you trust, like your teacher, as soon as possible. MEASLES OUTBREAK We have been given the following information from Dr Pat Tuohy (Chief Advisor, Child and Youth, Ministry of Health) to pass on to parents / whanau. There has been a rapid rise in the number of measles cases reported around the country, with the number of notified cases so far this year already seven times higher than the total number of cases last year. The number of cases in Auckland is growing. Measles is a highly infectious notifiable disease with serious complications. Case fatalities are around one per 1000. It is important to stop the spread of measles by keeping infected children at home. Immunisation is free, and is the best way to prevent measles. Doctors have begun recalling unimmunised patients to increase immunisation coverage. The Ministry of Health requires students who have no proven immunity to measles (through immunisation or previous exposure) to be sent home if there is a measles outbreak in their class. Immunisation is free. Once immunised, 90 to 95 per cent of people are protected from measles. Under the Health (Infectious and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations 1966 (Section 14), a student or teacher with measles must stay away from school for seven days from the appearance of the rash. Unimmunised students, or those with no immunity to measles, who have been close contacts of a measles case during the infectious stages will be excluded from school for 14 days from their last contact. This exclusion also applies to students taking part in sporting events. You can get more information on measles and controlling infectious diseases from http://www.moh.govt.nz/immunisation You can also call the Immunisation Advisory Centre toll-free line 0800 IMMUNE (0800 466 863) or going to the IMAC website http://www.immune.org.nz If you would like to discuss these issues, please contact your local public health service. The school is required to make sure its immunisation register is up to date. To help us, can you please check that your child’s immunisations are up-to-date and let us know if there has been any change to the information we have. Thank-you. |
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