Medical Conditions and Health Care Plans
We facilitate effective care and health management of children who require medication for illness or a diagnosed health condition during the preschool day. Families are required to complete an authorisation form and supply prescribed medication in its orginal packaging labelled with the child's name, use by date and dosage.
Individual Health Care Plans for children with diagnosed medical conditions such as Asthma, Anaphylaxis, must be written by the child's doctor and given to preschool staff before the child starts Preschool or before they can return after diagnosis. Please see staff as soon as possible if your child has a diagnosed medical condition.
Please make us aware if your child has any allergies
If your child has toileting issues we will need to develop a toileting plan.
Illness
Please keep your child home if they are unwell. Germs and sickness travel very easily at Preschool. We understand it can be difficult at times, however, we ask you to consider everyone, including staff, who may come into contact with your unwell child.
Please call if they are unwell and staying home or send an absence notification via the School Bytes Parent Portal.
If your child is unwell at Preschool we will call you to collect.
For vomiting and gastro illness, children must not attend Preschool for 24 - 48 hours after the last episode.
Infectious Diseases
Refer: Dealing with infectious diseases procedure
Parents are asked to notify the Preschool immediately if a child is diagnosed with any of the following infectious diseases. This needs to be done so that parents who have made the decision not to immunise can be informed. Those children not fully immunised may need to stay away from Preschool during any 'outbreak'.
- Chicken Pox
- Glandular Fever (Infectious Mononucleosis)
- Whooping Cough
- Infectious Hepatitis (Viral Hepatitis, Type A)
- Measels
- Impetigo (Scabby Sores)
- Mumps
We also ask that if your child has any of the following issues that you keep them at home until they have been treated or are cleared by doctor.
- Pediculosis (Head Lice)
- Rubella (German Measles)
- Ringworm
- Scabies
- Hand, Foot and Mouth
Please refer to recommended miniumum exclusion periods from NSW Health
Immunisation
We support the immunisation of children, before they enter Kindergarten in NSW Public Schools, to protect them against outbreaks of infectious diseases.
When enrolling a child, parents/carers will be asked to provide an Immunisation History Statement. The Immunisation History Statement can be obtained by using your MyGov App or contacting the Australian Child Immunisation Register or 1800 653 809.
Since December 2013, Parents/carers wishing to enrol their child in an early childhood education and care service must provide this document. Failure to provide this document will delay your child starting Preschool.
Children that attend our Preschool and are not immunised will be required to stay at home if there is an outbreak, to protect them from infection and prevent them from passing infection on to others.