If your child needs to have any prescribed medications four times a day. One dose can be administered during the school day please fill out all sections on the attached form and return it to the school office.

If a child is taking medication three times a day, parents should give a dose before school, after school and at bedtime.

Know when to keep your child at home

The start of a new term is a good time to familiarise yourself with the symptoms of common illnesses:

Children should not attend school or nursery for 24 hours after the first dose of antibiotics.

• It's fine to send your child to school or nursery with a minor cough or common cold if they are otherwise well and do not have a high temperature. But if your child has a fever, they should stay home from school or nursery until they feel better, and the fever has resolved.
• If they have diarrhoea and/or vomiting, they should stay home for at least 48 hours after the last episode.
• It is no longer recommended that children and young people are routinely tested for COVID-19 unless directed to by a health professional. But if your child has tested positive for COVID-19, they should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days after the day they took the test. Children and young people who usually go to school, college or childcare and who live with someone who has a positive COVID-19 test result should continue to attend as normal.
• If your child has the symptoms of measles (outlined below) and has not had both doses of the MMR vaccine, they should not attend school.
• If your child has Whooping cough, they should not attend school for 48 hours after they started taking antibiotics.

The NHS has a useful guide to help parents decide whether a child is well enough to go to school, based on their symptoms.