Health & Wellness

For the safety and protection of all, students should not attend school with any symptoms below and will be sent home for any of the following symptoms:

• Cold symptoms. Keep student home during period of productive cough and yellow or green nasal discharge.
• Fever of 100 degrees or higher. Students who have been ill with a fever need to be fever-free, without the use of medication, for 24 hours before returning to school.
• Eyes that are red, swollen, crusting or draining
• Untreated, draining ears or earache
• Diarrhea or Vomiting. Keep student home for 24 hours before returning to school.
• Severe nausea
• Severe sore throat
• Head lice
• Childhood communicable disease – contact the district nurse

If a student is at school with any of these symptoms, the parent/guardian will be called to pick up the student. Under certain circumstances, parents may be asked to consult a physician and to provide a written note from a doctor indicating that the student may return to school.