HEALTH OFFICE
Margie Secor
Health Office: 207-2604
While your child is here at Bell Top we will do our best to keep your child healthy and safe. Here are a few tips that you can do to help us out:
- Be sure your child has breakfast before coming to school
- Plenty of rest is important – the day is very long especially for kindergarteners.
- Dress appropriately for weather – children go outside everyday – good idea to have extra hat/mittens – also a change of clothes for those “accidents” that may occur.
- Sneakers everyday for physical education and outside play
- If the morning is a rough start – lost dog or something upsetting please call – it could help me if they come in to my office upset.
- Call if your child contracts a contagious disease – chicken pox, strep, pink eye. I need to keep track for the at-risk children.
- If you know or suspect head lice, please call me. I will then be able to check the classroom and hopefully keep on top of the situation.
- When your child is ill, please keep them home. Our policy is 24hrs of no fever or vomiting before sending them back. Please send a note to school the day of their return.
Immunizations
NYS requires the following in order to start school:
- 3 DPT
- 3 IPV or OPV (polio)
- 2 MMR (measles, mumps, rubella)
- 3 Hepatitis B
- Varicella
PHYSICALS
It is mandated by New York State for physicals to be done on every student in kindergarten, second, fourth and any newly entering student. It is recommended that you have a private physician do the physical because they know your child’s history, leading to a more thorough exam. We can accept a physical that was done within the last 12 months of the student entering school. NYS is also asking for Dental forms on the same years as the physicals. You can download both forms below.
MEDICATIONS
A doctor’s order and parent permission is required to administer medication in school. This is for prescription meds AND over-the- counter meds. Forms are in the health office. No medication is allowed on the bus with student; it must be brought in by the parent. You can download a form below.
As always if you have any questions or concerns regarding your child, please do not hesitate to call me at 207-2604.
Thank you,
Margie Secor, RN
Parent Notice of Required Screening
Greetings from the Health Office.
I am here every day to serve the health needs of the children at Bell Top School.
A school nurse is on staff full time to handle mishaps or illnesses that your child may have during school hours. If your child "visits" the Health Office, the nurse may call or send home an explanatory note, depending on the treatment administered. If the nurse determines that your child is not well enough to remain in school, you (or others listed on your emergency data card) will be contacted to pick him or her up.
Assessment
A child who is sick does not benefit from attending school, and may also be contagious to others. As a parent, you know when your child is not well enough to attend, but here are a few specific guidelines on when NOT to send your child to school:
- When he/she has vomited the night before or the morning of school
- When he/she has had a fever within the last 24 hours
What Goes Around
Please inform the Health Office of "known" contagious illnesses such as strep, chicken pox, flu, etc. The Health Office does not routinely send home health bulletins for contagious childhood illnesses, but will gladly notify families with someone at risk for such infections. Please let the Health Office know if your family is at risk!
Healthy Habits
Please continue to encourage your children to "cover your coughs and sneezes, please," and to wash their hands frequently with soap and water. About 80% of common infections are spread by touch!
Medications
In order to administer medication at school, the school nurse must have a written authorization(1) from your child's doctor giving the frequency and dosage of medication, the condition for which it was prescribed, and an additional note from a parent/ guardian requesting that the medicine be administered at school. The medication must be provided in a properly labeled (store or pharmacy label only) container and must be given directly to the school nurse by a parent. Students are not allowed to carry medicine (including OTC drugs) in school at any time.
Health and Immunization
Students new to the District, as well as those in Kindergarten, grades 2, 4, 7, and 10 are required by New York State Law to have health exams. Children must be immunized against the following: measles, polio, diphtheria, mumps, rubella, haemophilius influenza B, and hepatitis B.
| (1) Medication Authorization Form | Download in Word or PDF format |
| (2) Physical Exam Form | Download in Word or PDF format |
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