Saint Rose
School
Parent / Student Handbook 2007-2008
HEALTH & SAFETY
ENTRANCE REGULATIONS
It is required by the State of California that “on and after July 1, 1975 each child upon enrollment in the first grade, present satisfactory evidence to the governing body that he has received specified health screening and evaluation services with the previous two years”.
IMMUNIZATIONS AND STUDENT MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS
A child’s health has an important affect on his or her performance. A checkup of all students within 18 months prior to entering Kindergarten or first grade is required. California State Law requires all students to have satisfactory evidence on file of current immunization, to include Hepatitis B. The record submitted to the school must include at least the month and year received. Records of immunizations must be on file prior to the opening of school. Students will be excluded from attendance at St. Rose School if all records are not in by October 1st.
All pupils attending Saint Rose School are required to be immunized for the following:
Parents are asked to keep dental and health information up to date.
EMERGENCY CARDS
Each child must have a completed emergency card on file in the school office. These cards must be kept up to date. Any change in address or phone number must be reported to the office. This is important to your child(ren) in the event of an accident or illness.
In case of illness, a child may not be sent home unless there is someone there to receive him. If you wish another person to perform this duty for you, please indicate this on your emergency card. This information is to be kept accurate and up to date.
SCHOOL INSURANCE COVERAGE
All students at Saint Rose School are covered by insurance for injuries incurred on the school grounds as well as to and from school supervised activities. The registration fee includes coverage by the Myers-Stevens Company for all our students. All students are covered for accidents during school hours or other school sponsored activities. In the event of an injury, parents may obtain a claim form from the school office. The injury must be brought to the attention of the office the day the incident occurs. Please read the insurance forms that are sent home the first week of school so you will be familiar with the program.
SCHOOL TIME INSURANCE PLAN
$25,000.00 insurance benefit maximum per covered event is provided by the school. The policy provides benefits for covered injuries occurring during the regular school term while:
NOTIFICATION OF ILLNESS
ILLNESS
In case of illness or accidents at school, the office personnel will contact the home by phone.
MEDICATIONS
Students are prohibited from having
any medications on their person or bringing into the classroom with them. Medications
must be kept locked in the school office. A new form MUST be completed by the
physician and parent each school year.
Medical treatment is the responsibility of the parent and the family health care provider. Medications are RARELY to be given at school. The parent is urged, with the help of the family health care provider, to work out a schedule of giving medication outside school hours. The only exceptions involve special or serious problems where it is deemed absolutely necessary to give the medication during school hours.
NO member of the faculty is permitted to administer any medication without:
MEDICATION FORMS
The school office can provide the appropriate medication forms that cover the above requirements. These forms must be updated annually. NO medication will be kept over the summer months.
All such medication must be brought to the office where it will be kept and to which the child will come at the designated time to receive it. Medication shall be brought to the school by the parent in the original container. No medication (prescription or non-prescription) may be transported by a student or be in the student’s possession while at school.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
The school office must be notified immediately in the case
of any of the communicable diseases listed below:
Chicken Pox: A child must stay home until 7 days or longer after the appearance of the first crop of vesicles (crusts are contagious). If new vesicles continue to appear, this may mean not returning to school until 24 hours after the last vesicle has made its appearance.
Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye): A child may be in school 24 hours after physician been advised and the stated active treatment been given.
Head Lice: Infections with lice and mites are treatable with over the counter drugs, please consult your child’s physician or pharmacists. The student must be nit free and checked by school personnel before returning to school.
Impetigo: A common name for skin pyoderma. The organisms most commonly implicated as causing this disease are Streptococcus and Staphylococcus. As this disease is highly contagious, no child shall be permitted to return to school until appropriate systematic antibiotic therapy has been stated or until free of disease. The area should be covered if oozing.
German Measles: A child must stay home until clinical recovery at least four days from onset of catarrhal system or until rash is clear.
Mumps: A child must stay at home until a symptomatic or released by a physician with a minimum of nine days exclusion.
Pinworms: A student diagnosed with pinworms should not return to school until a physician has stated appropriate treatment.
Ringworms of Scalp and Body: Micros Porum species is highly contagious by both direct and indirect contact. Children before the age of puberty are very susceptible. Any child diagnosed as having ringworm shall not be allowed to return to school unless he/she has been placed on an effective therapeutic regimen, or until he/she exhibit a negative scabies until adequately treated.
SCREENING TESTS
In the interests of the children’s’ health, the school provides certain health services. In the course of the year, each student will participate in the following health examination: