HEALTH
At Stone Soup we take special interest in your child’s health. A well-rested child who is dressed warmly in winter and protected from the sun in summer, who is fed a wholesome diet is best prepared to withstand the onslaught of winter colds and health ailments. It is normal, however, for children to experience sickness as they grow.
As parents, you know better than the teacher how your child appears and acts when he or she is ill. The lively playschool is not a soothing environment for a child who is not well. Please arrange your lives so that your child can be in a quiet and restful environment when he or she is ill.
All working parents know the desperate feeling of needing to go to work when a little one is not feeling well. We are very sympathetic with the situation, and we urge parents to arrange back-up care.
After an illness, children often appear healthy in the morning but are still not up to the vigorous activity of the play school. Please allow your child at least one full day of rest after an illness. We will make every effort to support you in keeping your child healthy. If your child will be absent please call the school the night before or in the morning before 8:30.
Medications in the Playschool
Please give your child medicine at home.
If a child must take medication at school, it must come in its original container with the physician’s instructions. Parents must also fill out an authorization form.
Children are not to have medicine in their cubbies or packs. It is to be handled adult-to-adult. Give the medicine to a car pool parent if you are not bringing the child to school. Vitamins are treated as medicine.
In an emergency
We will use the information you have provided regarding contact numbers and specific instructions. In case no parent or guardian can be reached, your signed contract will allow us to give the medical attention your child might need.
Immunizations
The Playschool’s policy in regard to immunization is that it is the parent’s right and responsibility to choose to immunize or not. Following are our needs regarding either choice.
We are required to keep records of your child’s immunizations status.
When a child is not immunized, a parental letter stating the same is required. If an outbreak of a known disease were to occur, children not immunized for this condition are required by Government Health Authorities to remain away from school during the outbreak.
You must notify us:
If your child develops a communicable disease, (for example, chicken pox or whooping cough) please notify us at once. We will send out a form to alert other Stone Soup families.
We will contact you:
If your child shows any communicable disease symptoms during school, we will phone his/her parent(s) or legal guardian(s), or, if in our opinion, your child is unable to participate fully in a normal day, whether due to illness, fatigue, or unusual distress.
Please follow these guidelines for when you must keep your child at home:
If fever is present, or has had one during the previous 24 hours
Heavy nasal discharge
Constant cough
Vomiting
Symptoms associated with a communicable disease- reddened eyes, sore throat, headache, abdominal pain, fever
Impetigo
Chicken pox
Pin-worms
Lice- please check regularly
Make-up days………….these are not a given. If your child misses days owing to illness or vacation or any other reason, we will do all we can to accommodate make-up days, but please do not expect it or ask for tuition credit. We cannot give credit for missed days. Friday, Farm Days may be good make-up days, but you will need to check with us to see if this is an option.