From the Health Centre

Whooping Cough Outbreak

Whooping cough has been positively diagnosed in a female staff member at Calrossy Anglican School. Please click here for detailed information regarding Whooping Cough.

If your son/daughter has a dry, persistent cough they need to be seen by a medical practitioner as early detection and treatment prevents the spread to others.  Inform your G.P. that whooping cough has been diagnosed at your school.

Your child will need to be kept home from school until no longer infectious, usually 5 days after commencing antibiotic treatment.

The most infectious period is in the first 3 weeks of coughing.

Those most of risk are children under 12 months of age or anyone not immunised.

Keep any one with a cough away from newborns until they have been vaccinated.

Anyone who is pregnant may need to see their GP.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Vaccination Program 2019

Each year NSW Health works in partnership with schools to offer the vaccines recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for adolescents as part of the school vaccination program.

In 2019 the following vaccine will be offered:

Parent Information Kits that include an information sheet, consent form and privacy statement will be sent home to parents/guardians of year 10 students. To consent to the vaccination of their child, parents/guardians are advised to:

read all the information provided

complete the consent form, including signing their name next to the vaccine they would

like their child to receive

return the completed consent form to the school.

ensure that your child eats breakfast on the day of the school vaccination clinic.

Parents/guardians who wish to withdraw their consent for any reason may do so by writing to the school Principal or phoning the school. The Procedure for Withdrawal of Consent is available on the NSW Health website at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages

To improve vaccination completion, students will be opportunistically offered any missed dose throughout the year where possible.

A Record of Vaccination will be provided to each student vaccinated at each clinic as a physical card. Parents/guardians should ensure that this record is kept for future reference and should not assume that their child has been vaccinated if they do not receive this Record of Vaccination.