Health Centre
Welcome back!
To ensure your child stays healthy and happy in 2026, here is a quick guide to our Health Centre routines.
📋 Action Items for Families
· Update PAM: Please update your child’s Medical Profile on the Parent Access Module (PAM) immediately. Include all dietary allergies, intolerances, and preferences so we can cater for them at school events.
· Excursion Consent: Please respond to PAM consent requests as soon as they arrive. We cannot pack essential medical kits (like EpiPens and Asthma totes) until all responses are in.
· Asthma Care: If your child has asthma, please provide a Ventolin inhaler and spacer to be kept in the Health Centre.
💊 Medication Rules
Short-term: (Antibiotics) Bring the original container to the Health Centre and sign our authorisation form.
Daily Medication: Requires a Medication Authorisation Form signed by a GP, Dentist, or Specialist. Forms are on PAM, the school website or by request.
Occasional: (Paracetamol/Antihistamine) We will always call you for verbal consent before administering these.
🤕 Head Injury Protocol
If your child bumps their head, we follow these steps:
Minor Bump: We provide comfort and monitoring.
Mild/Possible Concussion: You and the classroom teacher will be notified. We will provide injury details and a monitoring guide for home.
Moderate/Severe: We call Emergency Services immediately and notify parents.
☀️ SunSmart
Sun Protection:
· Primary students must wear hats. Secondary students are strongly encouraged.
· Sunscreen is available & SunSmart information is postered.
· Encourage them to check the daily UV rating on SIMON and remind them that "there is no such thing as a healthy tan."
👌 Wellbeing
If your child is struggling emotionally or physically, please encourage them to "pop in" for a chat. We are here to support their wellbeing.
🛌 Day Off
Please keep your child at home to recover and protect others if they have:
1. Fever: 38°C or higher.
They should be fever-free for at least 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication before returning.
2. Vomiting or Diarrhoea:
Keep home until 24 to 48 hours have passed since their last episode.
3. Severe Cough or Breathing Trouble:
A persistent "hacking" cough that prevents them from participating or causes breathing difficulties.
4. Contagious Rashes:
Any unexplained or new rash should be checked by a medical practitioner.
5. Eye Infections:
If eyes are red, itchy, or have discharge (conjunctivitis), keep them home until the discharge has stopped or they have started treatment.
6. Flu like symptoms:
Body aches, fatigue, feeling flat & weak, cough, sore throat, a runny/stuffy nose and stomach upsets: The general rule is that your child must stay home until: symptoms have resolved and they feel well again.
7. General Unwellness:
If they are unusually tired, lethargic, irritable, or "just not themselves," they likely won't be able to learn effectively and need rest.
💪 Immunisations
· Year 10 - Meningococcal vaccine will be offered at school in May
· Year 7 - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (whooping cough) and Human papillomavirus (HPV) will be offered in July
🌸 A Huge Thank You !
To Nola Lee (Nate Hayes’s Nanna) for sewing our amazing new colourful heat/cold pack covers. They are a massive hit with the students!
Any question or concerns, please contact us: nurse@smseymour.catholic.com.au or at the College on 57922611
Lisa Glover
nurse@smseymour.catholic.edu.au
Kath Treble