Health+and+Safety

=**Health and Safety**=


 * Injuries Or Illness Occurring During School Hours**

Parents are notified immediately by phone of serious injuries or sudden illness that occurs during school hours. For this reason, it is imperative that you notify the school office when there is a change in your contact numbers or in the emergency numbers which you provide the school at the beginning of each year.

It is understood that enrollment at Annunciation Catholic confers upon the school the obligation to select emergency care providers in the absence of our ability to reach the parents and that no liability would attach to such a decision in the event that the parents cannot be reached.

If children are given prescription medication or over the counter medication to take during school hours, such medication must be brought to the office in the morning with a signed note from the doctor identifying the medication and including the time and dosage. No medication will be given to a child without written permission from a doctor and a signed Doctor’s form is on file in the office. These forms are distributed at the beginning of each school year and additional copies can be obtained in the office or printed from this link.
 * Medication**

NO CHILD CAN CARRY PRESCRIPTION OR NON-PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION ON THEIR PERSON.

• If a student contracts a communicable disease like chicken pox please notify the school office so that we may notify the families of students who may have be exposed.
 * Communicable Diseases**

• Children with communicable illnesses must present a doctor clearance for re-admittance.

• For the health of all the students please DO NOT send your child to school if they have a fever, have been vomiting or are visibly ill.

Students who come to school sick will be sent to the office and you will be called to pick them up.

Immunizations

All directives regarding immunizations issued annually by the State of California will be implemented.

No student may be unconditionally admitted to school unless he/she has been immunized against poliomyelitis, measles, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and varicella for first admission to schools in California. In addition, Hepatitis B immunization is required for students entering pre- school and kindergarten. All students entering grade 7 are required to present documentation showing dates when three doses of Hepatitis B and 2 doses of measles-containing vaccine have been received.

Immunization is not required for admission if a parent or guardian presents a letter stating that such immunization is contrary to their beliefs or presents a written statement of a physician to the effect that immunization is not safe or reasonably beneficial to the individual student.

TB Skin Test

Students entering kindergarten must have a TB Mantoux Skin test within one year prior to the first

day of school. This also applies to students in grades 1- 8 who have never attended another school

in California.

IMPORTANT: TDAP immunization is required for all 7th and 8th grade students for the 2011-2012 school year.