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Health Care
All parents are asked to complete a permission slip enabling a registered nurse to undertake regular
head inspections in school. If you should discover that your child has head lice would you please inform
the school so that we in turn can alert parents to take the usual precautions.

Current advice on dealing with head lice is:
▪ Wash hair in the normal way with an ordinary shampoo
▪ Use lots of conditioner and while the hair is wet comb through from the roots with a fine tooth
comb
▪ Make sure the teeth of the comb slot into the hair at the roots with each stroke. Do this over a
pale surface such as a paper towel or the bath
▪ Clear the comb of lice between each stroke
▪ If you find lice repeat this routine every 3-4 days for 3 weeks so that any lice emerging from
the eggs are removed before they can breed. Eggs are not visible but clear and jelly-like; they
become white only after hatching

Medicines in School
The Health and Safety Executive advise that wherever practicable parents should accept responsibility
for administering medicines to their own children. It may, however, be unavoidable that pupils have to
take medicines/tablets during the school day. We ask for your kind co-operation to help us to help your
child by following the procedures set out below:
▪ All medicine containers should be labelled with:
➢ The name of the prescribing person / the name and address of the pupil
➢ The name of the medicine, dosage and the time of administration
▪ A form provided by school giving school staff the authority to administer the medicine to your
child should accompany the container
Children who need to use inhalers can keep them in the unlocked first aid cabinet in their classroom for
easy access. If a peak flow meter is required a member of staff will supervise its use. It is important
that children with asthma keep a blue (reliever) inhaler in school at all times – please check expiry dates
on inhalers.

Epipens are kept in the school office, which is continually staffed, and kept in an unlocked cabinet for
swift retrieval. This is because most allergic reactions are around food which is consumed either at
lunchtime/playtime and it’s quicker to access the office, where staff are first aid trained, than for
Lunchtime Supervisors/Teaching Assistants to locate relevant classrooms to get the Epipen. When
children leave the site they are signed out from the office and staff sign the Epipen out to the
accompanying member of staff. A list of expiry dates for Epipens is kept updated by office staff. A
Health Care Plan with photographs of the child are displayed in the office and the Kitchen to help swift
recognition, unless a parent or carer objects. A defibrillator is kept in the office to be used in an
emergency. We have Epipens supplied by the local health authority which we can use with any child
experiencing sudden severe allergic reaction.

Medicals
Screening in Reception includes;
Weight, height, audio and vision screening and parents are contacted by the school nurse if any
problems are highlighted. A school nurse can be contacted on: 03333 202302 at Family Health,
Neighbourhood Centre, Dover Road, Ragworth, Stockton-on-Tees.
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