Safety & First Aid News 

We have noticed an increase in illness related absences and students presenting at school unwell. To protect the health and safety of all students and staff, we ask that if your child is showing any signs of illness can you please keep them home for monitoring. 

If your child becomes unwell at school and is considered too sick to benefit from school or is contagious to others, you will be called to pick them up. Please ensure that you notify us of any changes to your child’s medical history and ensure emergency contact details and medical management information is up to date.

Exclusion of a child with an infectious disease – primary school students

Children with certain infectious diseases, and children who have been in contact with certain infectious diseases, are required to be excluded from school for a specified period.

The DH school exclusion table identifies which infectious diseases require exclusion and for what period

As set out in the Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019, principals of primary school-aged students must not allow a child to attend school if:

• they have been informed that the child is infected with an infectious disease, confirmed by a medical practitioner, that requires exclusion as described in the DH school exclusion table
• they have been informed that a child has been in contact with a person with an infectious disease as described in the School exclusion table
• during an outbreak, the Chief Health Officer directs a primary school to exclude a child based on material risk of a child contracting a vaccine-preventable disease (i.e. a child who is not immunised to be excluded until advised attendance can be resumed).