If your student takes a prescription medication at school, new paperwork needs to be filled out each school year which includes a signature from your child’s doctor.

During the school year, I will perform vision and hearing tests on all sixth graders and any fifth graders new to the district.  Parents of students not passing these screenings will be sent a letter of referral.  Please respond to these referrals by returning the note, by phone call, or email.

After an illness, your student should be fever free (below 99.6) for 24 hours without the aid of a fever reducing medication before returning to school.

Parents may be contacted to come and pick up their child during the day if the student becomes ill.

1.  If there is a temperature of 99.6 degrees with symptoms, such as headache, sore throat, nausea/vomiting, rashes.

2.  If there is a temperature of 100.4 degrees with no symptoms. The student should remain home until the temperature has been normal for 24 hours without the aid of medication.

3.  Pink eye – students with pink eye shall be excluded from school until 24 hours after treatment has started.

4.  Head lice –  If a child is found to have head lice, the parent will be called to come to the school and pick up the student.  The student will not be allowed to ride the bus or return to the classroom until checked by the school nurse and found to be free of lice.

5.  All injuries which result in unusual swelling, discoloration, or pain.

6.  Cuts which appear to require stitches.

7.  Dental injuries.

When allergy-season is amongst us, sometimes it is difficult to differentiate between allergies and illness.  I’d like to share a few reminders. 

Please keep your child home from school if:

1. They are vomiting - 2 or more times in 24hrs.

2. They have diarrhea - 3 or more watery stools in 24hrs.

3. They have a rash - Body rash especially with a fever or itching.

4. They have an eye infection - Reddened eye, thick mucous or pus draining from the eye.

5. They have a sore throat - with either fever or swollen glands.

6. They have a fever - Temperature of 99.6’F degrees or more, an earache, or just not feeling well.

When your child is sick…

1.  Please call the school office at 794-4040 and let them know your child will be absent.

2. Please inform the school nurse if your child has strep throat, pink eye, chicken pox, lice, or another communicable disease.

3. Your child should be temperature free for 24 hour without medication before returning to school after an illness.

If your student takes a prescription medication at school, new paperwork needs to be filled out each school year.  This includes inhalers and insulin! Please use the link at the bottom of this page to print a copy for your child's doctor to sign, as well as a signature from the parent/guardian. You may then send this paperwork and the medication to school with your child to give to the nurse. Thank you!

During the school year, I will perform hearing and vision screenings on all students new to the district. Parents/guardians of students not passing these screenings will be sent a letter-of-referral with the findings. Please respond to these referrals by: a) returning the note (with a signature of acknowledgement);  b) a return phone call; c) an email; or d) faxed response.  Please notify me if you prefer your student be-opted out of this screening.

Click the link below to access the school district's Health Services webpages which includes immunization, medication, and physical forms as well as documents for condition-specific care plans, along with annual notices and general information. Please contact the school nurse directly with any questions.