Guidance on when to keep your child off school due to illness

• Chicken pox - stay off school until all spots have crusted over.
• Conjunctivitis - no need to stay off, but please notify the academy.
• Flu - stay off school until recovered.
• Glandular fever - no need to stay off, but please notify the academy.
• Hand, foot & mouth - no need to stay off, but please notify the academy.
• Head lice - no need to stay off, but please notify the academy.
• Impetigo - stay off school until lesions are crusted and healed, or 48 hours after started antibiotics.
• Measles or German Measles - stay off school for 4 days from onset of rash.
• Mumps - stay off school for 5 days from onset of swelling.
• Scabies - stay off school until after first treatment.
• Scarlet fever - stay off school until 24 hours after starting antibiotics.
• Slapped cheek - no need to stay off, but please notify the academy.
• Threadworms - no need to stay off, but please notify the academy.
• Tonsillitis - no need to stay off, but please notify the academy.
• Whooping cough - stay off school until 48 hours after starting antibiotics.

 

This guidance has been issued by the Public Health Agency. You can find out more here, including translations of this information in several languages.

 

To leave a message with our attendance team, please call 01623 663455 or 01623 663453 or email attendance@tscacademy.org.uk.

 

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