School Health

Below you will find:

• What to do if you suspect your child is ill
• Information about head lice 
• Information about food allergies 
• Additional health resources

Please feel free to contact Nurse Mara with any questions or concerns regarding your student's health.

Sick Children Guidelines

Please call NHS as soon as you decide to keep your child home from school due to illness. When calling to report your child absent, let us know what type of illness your child is experiencing. This information helps me to monitor and track cases of chicken pox, strep throat, pneumonia, fifths disease, head lice, etc.

Guidelines for keeping your child home

Parents play an important role in keeping our school's environment healthy. For students and staff alike we request that children not attend school with the following symptoms:

• An actively runny nose with green or yellow mucus discharge
• A persistent, uncontrolled cough
• A temperature greater than 100.2 degrees
• An untreated earache
• Vomiting in the last 24 hours
• Itchy, reddened, weepy eye(s)

If your child has a contagious infection such as pneumonia, strep throat or a bacterial skin infection, it is highly recommended he/she stay home 24 to 48 hours after starting antibiotics (at least 3 doses).

Lice Policy

LICE is always around ANYBODY can get it!

NHS follows the Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health Services policy.

Children will not be sent home if lice/nits are found. At the parent/guardian request or if a student is suspected of having lice I will check their heads. If lice or nits are found I will contact the family as soon as possible and provide any assistance that I can. With this being said-- I STRONGLY encourage long hair to be put up or braided. Gels and hairspray also can help prevent lice.

The NH Department of Health and Human Services Fact Sheet

Kid's Health Informative article on Head Lice

Food Allergies

One area that I will be concentrating on this year is educating families and students on the seriousness of food allergies. As most of you know our school does not enforce a nut free policy throughout the entire school. The cafeteria's kitchen is nut free and we take significant measures to ensure safety in the cafeteria setting, so all kids can enjoy any food they bring from home. HOWEVER, the classroom settings with allergic children are "NUT FREE ZONES" and they must be a safe haven for ALL.

This means if your child is in a "NUT FREE" classroom please refrain from sending in any foods that contain peanut/nut derivatives. The link below is for a website that has extensive list of nut free foods. 

Snack Safe Guide

Additional Health Resources