Influenza Information

Health Room

 St. Anthony School has a health room available to students during the hours of school.  The Health and Safety Coordinator contacts a student’s parent or guardian when they are ill.  All medication is dispensed from the health room.  The Health and Safety Coordinator coordinates all the health screenings and emergency drills.   As a part of our disaster preparedness plans, the Health and Safety Coordinator maintains a disaster container on the school grounds.  

Healthy Students Make Better Learners!

We recommend that you keep your child home from school when your child has the following symptoms:

• Fever of 100 F or greater
  
• Fever within the last 24 hours
• A bad cold
• Frequent, hard coughing
• Vomiting within the last 24 hours
• Loose, watery bowel movements
• Head lice or nits
• Drainage from ears or eyes
• Inflammation of eye or eyelid
• Has been on antibiotics for less than 24 hours
• Unexplained rash

If your child is sent to school with any of the above symptoms or develops any of the above symptoms during the school day, you will be requested to pick them up from school in a timely manner.

Likewise, a student with a contagious illness should not attend school until the condition is no longer considered contagious.  Please refer to our Communicable Disease Policy for more information.

Parents should immediately notify the school about the child’s contagious condition so school parents can be informed by the school.