Illness
If
a child becomes ill
at school, displaying a fever or severe
discomfort, the parents
will be called to take
the child home.
Parents, or one of their
designated
emergency
contacts, need to be at the school to pick up
their child within one hour of the initial
phone call. Parents
also need to make
sure
that all phone numbers
are current on the
registration card so
that
someone can be reached quickly if their child
becomes
ill.
When
a child is
home with a fever, vomiting, or
diarrhea, the
child may
not return to school
for twenty-four hours after the first
symptoms.
When a child is
diagnosed with a contagious illness, the child
may not return until
the
time so written by a
doctor’s note. The
school must be notified
of all contagious
illness so that proper notification of the
illness
can be posted.
Illinois
state law
mandates that children can only be
given
prescription medication at
school - over the counter
medicines are not
allowed.
When arriving at school with
prescription medicine, the
parent needs to
fill out
a Medical Consent Form.
This form is given to their
child’s
teacher or the office.
The
medication
needs to be in the original container from the
druggist, clearly marked with the child’s
name.
The school may
only give one
dose per day at lunch time.
At no time, should medicine be
placed in a child’s
lunch box.
If
a child is not well
enough to go outside to play, that child
cannot
be at school. Weather
permitting; all children go outside to play
every
day.
Accidents/Incidents
While
AGBMS’ first
commitment is to the safety and well being of
the
children, accidents do happen.
When
your child is hurt a determination is made
regarding the
seriousness of the
accident.
If the
accident
is deemed serious, parents will be called
immediately.
All
injuries to the head,
regardless of severity,
will warrant a phone
call to
parents.
If the
incident
is deemed to be of a non-serious nature, first
aid will be
administered. Attending
staff will fill out an incident report. This report tells parents
how the incident happened and what help was
given to the child. The
parent reads this
report, signs it, and
returns it to the staff member.
Emergency
Treatment
Every
child enrolled at
Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School shall have an emergency
card on file. This card
is signed by the parent and gives staff
authorization to seek
medical care for a child
if necessary.
If
a child receives an
injury that requires immediate medical
treatment, one staff
member will remain with
the child while
another
staff member will call
9-1-1 immediately. This
staff member will also
obtain the child’s
Emergency Card and hand it to the staff that
is
treating the injured child.
One
staff member and the Emergency Contact Card
will
remain with the injured child at all
times. After
reaching 9-1-1, staff
will then call the
parents or the emergency contacts until one of
them is reached to let them know what
happened.
Once
the EMT’s arrive
at the school and a determination is made that
the
child needs to go to the hospital, one
staff
member will accompany
the child to the
hospital.
This
staff member will take along the
Emergency
Card, which
allows the staff person
to sign on behalf of the parents all forms
which are required to
obtain treatment. The
staff at the hospital
may make a photocopy of
this card for their
files. The card gives
the hospital
the
following information:
Doctor, Hospital,
Insurance
information, and parent’s names
and emergency
numbers.
At the same time, staff at the school
will again call the
parents to let them know
to which hospital their child is being
taken.
Once
the parents arrive
at the hospital and are given an update on
their
child, the staff person will be allowed
to
return to
school.
Fire Drills,
Bad Storms and
Security
This
school is equipped
with clearly marked exits, emergency lighting,
fire doors, and a sprinkler system. Regular fire drills are held
so that the children and staff know what
to do
in the case of fire.
The school is checked
yearly by both the state and village fire
marshals.
Since
Illinois is
in the Tornado Belt,
tornado drills are
practiced each fall and spring. If weather becomes
inclement, the office listens to the radio for
alerts.
If there is a
tornado
warning or the tornado sirens have
been heard, the children are
asked to move
into the
safe rooms in the
building.
The
building is kept
locked except during children’s arrival and
dismissal times.
Children are
allowed to leave only with
the people
designated
in writing by their
parents, either on the registration card, or
in
a letter to the teacher.
People
unknown to the staff will be asked to show
proper
identification. Visitors will be asked
to
register in the office
before entering the
building.
