Students with Cold and Flu Symptoms
This is a reminder that it is essential all families keep their children at home if they have cold or flu symptoms. The Pittwater House Health Centre is sending students home every day that are presenting as being unwell. NSW Health have stated that people with corona-virus may experience symptoms such as:
- fever
- respiratory symptoms
- coughing
- sore throat
- shortness of breath.
Other symptoms can include runny nose, acute blocked nose (congestion), headache, muscle or joint pains, nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting, loss of sense of smell, altered sense of taste, loss of appetite and fatigue.
Therefore, please assist us in preventing the spread of these symptoms amongst our school population by ensuring students with these symptoms do not attend school. Students presenting with these symptoms will be sent home, however, we would rather be proactive about this and ensure students who are unwell do not arrive at school until their symptoms are gone. Students with these symptoms, should also comply with NSW Health advice and get a COVID test.
Years 10 to 12 students who have assessment tasks due are also reminded that this is not a reason to come to school when they are sick. They need to stay home until they have recovered from their symptoms, complete an assessment appeal form with appropriate documentation and communicate with their teacher via email to arrange a new date to complete the task.
Hopefully by following these rules we can reduce the number of students and Staff at Pittwater House who get sick and have to isolate themselves from school.
