Medication in School

Please do not send medication to school via your child. Medication must be handed to the school office by an adult.

Staff member administering prescribed medication on school grounds

• In exceptional circumstances, a designated member of staff may administer medicine but only by prior agreement with the school. Our policy is that only prescribed medicines can be administered by the school.
• In this case, medicine must be handed directly to the school office, children should not be sent to school with medicine.
• Please ensure that medicine is clearly labelled with the contents, the child’s name and the correct dosage.
• The school cannot be held responsible for the consequences of administering a medicine where this was carried out as prescribed by the doctor and/or as instructed by the parent.

Medical or dental appointments

We ask that all routine medical appointments are booked outside of the school day. Where pupils have more specialist appointments, please provide details of these to the school 48 hours in advance. For any urgent same day appointments, please contact the school as soon as you are able to.  

Students with medical conditions

If your child has a medical condition, please ensure that you have informed the school. Each year, our school nurse will send out a survey to ask you to let us know if there have been any changes to your child’s health. 

If your child’s medical condition requires them to have a care plan, we ask you to share these with us and if there is not one in place, we will ask our school nurse to chase these with your consent.  

If your child’s medical condition requires them to have medication within school, for example an inhaler or EpiPen, it is your responsibility to ensure that these are not out of date and that students have them with them at all times.  

Medical tracker 

We use Medical tracker to log all incidents related to first aid that occur on site. As such, you may receive communication from their service via email.