The Federated Schools of Wood Street Infant School and Worplesdon Primary School are committed to providing an appropriate and high quality education to all the children attending the schools. We ensure that children at our schools with medical conditions, in terms of both physical and mental health are properly supported so they can play a full and active role in school life, remain healthy and achieve their academic potential. We also ensure that the needs of children with medical conditions are effectively supported in consultation with health and social care professionals, their parents/carers and the pupils themselves.

We ask for detailed information regarding your child’s health on entry and throughout their time at Worplesdon.  Please update this information through the school office when any new or changing needs occur.

If a child becomes ill during the school day, we will contact the parents to take their child home, as we have no medical facilities in school.  Please ensure we have a telephone number where you can be contacted during the day.  It is useful if we can have a second person to contact in case you are not available.  Please notify the school by 9.10am if your child is ill (see also Attendance); if a child has an infectious illness, it is essential that we are aware of this as we must report some of these to our Local Authority.  Please do not send your child to school until he/she is fully recovered.  Children who have had diarrhoea or sickness must not return to school until they have been clear of symptoms for 48 hours.  If you need to know recommended periods to keep children with infectious illnesses away from school, please contact the school office.

Medicines can only be administered once a Pupil Medication Request form has been completed and only if the medicine is in tit's original container and clearly labelled as originally dispensed

Our office staff and teaching assistants deal with any minor injuries that occur during the day.  All staff have completed first aid training.

Reporting Illness

The Federation has an efficient and secure system for reporting your child’s absence due to illness, called Studybugs.

If you haven’t already, please get the free Studybugs app, or register on the Studybugs website, and use it to tell us whenever your child’s ill and unable to attend school.

Get the app or register now (https://studybugs.com/about/parents)

Top 3 reasons to use Studybugs
1. It’s integrated with our systems so we know right away if your child is unaccounted for.
2. It’s quick and easy to register and use and automatically reminds you to keep us posted.
3. You’ll be helping the NHS and other public health organisations improve children’s health. (https://studybugs.com/about/schools)