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Health & Safety
Medication
School policy
and Oregon State Law requires parents to bring medication to the school office
in the original container.
Pharmacies will provide you with a duplicate container. The label will state the student’s
name, the dosage, time, prescription number and the physician’s name.
Parents must pick up unused medication; it cannot be sent home with your
child. Medication Record and
Authorization Forms are to be completed by parents in the school office. Emergency medications, such as a bee
sting kit, must be accompanied by your doctor’s written directions for
use. All
asthma medications must be registered through the office. No medication of any kind is allowed on
a student’s person during the course of the school day. However, special arrangements may be
made, if necessary. You must
re-register all medications at the beginning of the year. Authorization forms cannot be carried
from one year to the next. If your
child is seen with medication, they will be sent to the office and a phone call
will be made to the parent to come and either retrieve the medication or appear
in the office to register it with the office. ^
Emergency
Information
In emergencies, information may be released to appropriate persons
if it is necessary in the judgment of the principal or administrative assistant
to protect the health or safety of the student or other persons. All emergency information needs to be
constantly updated and filed with the office in order to best serve the needs
of your student in an emergency situation.
If any information has changed regarding physician, dentist, allergies,
medications taken since you filled out your registration form please alert the
office.^
SKATES,
SKATEBOARDS, SCOOTERS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, CELL
PHONES AND PAGERS, I-Pods
If students come to
school on skates, using a skateboard or a scooter, they are not to use them on
school property. This also includes
the shoes with skates built into the sole.
This is strictly a safety policy.
Electronic equipment,
such as personal CD players, Game Boys, etc., including cell phones, are not to
be used during school time. Please
keep these devices at home.^
Earthquake Drills
Each year the entire student body practices the drill used in the
event of an earthquake. We
encourage you to do the same in your home in order to heighten students’
awareness of what to do in this rare event.^
Fire Drills
Fire drills are practiced several times in the month of September,
and once a month thereafter.^
School Lockdown
As per police recommendations, the following procedures will be
implemented for school lockdown:
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Doors will be locked
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Blinds will be closed
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No one will be permitted to enter or leave the
building
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If possible, an emergency email will be sent out
explaining the circumstance
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Lockdown will continue until the school receives
an “all clear” signal from emergency personnel. Please do not call the school so the
phone will be available to emergency personnel. ^
Emergency
Should there ever be an
emergency at school, we will institute an emergency e-mail, if we are
able. It will be marked as an
emergency with specific instructions to follow, such as:
Please be advised that St. Clare School is in a lockdown mode at the request of
the police. There is a hostage
situation two blocks from the school.
We will notify you when the lockdown is lifted. Please stay tuned to your TV and radios,
and frequently check your email for notices from Sr. Moe. Do not try to enter the building to pick
up your children. We will notify
you by whatever means is available to us when it is safe to do so.
We
ask for those of you who have signed up for e-mail that you be alert during the
course of each day just in case something should happen. For those of you who do not have e-mail,
we will try to contact you by phone.^