Our School is Allergy Aware
There are a number of students in our school who experience anaphylactic reactions if exposed to nuts or products containing nuts eg. nutella, peanut butter. For some of these students the anaphylactic reaction can be life threatening. For this reason, we have a nut aware policy in place in our school and ask families to refrain from sending nuts, nut spreads or products containing nuts to school. We would like to emphasise the seriousness of this issue as we have students that can become seriously ill in a matter of minutes. Even if food items contain traces of nuts please try and avoid giving them to your child in their lunch boxes and save these treats for home.
If your child has a food allergy other than nuts, can you please make this aware to the classroom teacher and administration.
Medical Conditions
If your child has a medical condition, asthma or severe allergies, parents are required to fill out a form giving information about their child’s condition. If relevant, parents must fill in a detailed Action Plan and provide the school with any relevant medication, that will be stored in the front office.
All medical forms need to be updated and reviewed every twelve months and parents are responsible for ensuring any medication kept at school has not passed expiry date. Please ensure that once you have completed all appropriate documentation, you inform the class teacher.