A Note from Nurse Vella

 

DC Health requires that I send out immunization notices to all students due and overdue for immunizations. Many of our graduating 5^th graders will receive these notices as they are due for their 11-year shots. Please don’t panic! If you receive a notice, it simply means that they will need to get these shots over the summer OR we simply don’t have a recently updated record on file—please submit updated records to your respective middle schools! 

 

Please, please, please pick up your child’s medication(s) during the last week of school. I will be here 8-4:30 every day (except 6/19, but I will be here Friday, 6/23). We cannot send medications home in students’ backpacks! 

 

If your student will be at Lafayette’s ESY program over the summer, please touch base with me—you do likely do not need to pick up your student’s medication in that circumstance, however I want to touch base and ensure medication forms are up to date! If your student is attending a different summer school program, you will need to pick up their medications and get them to their respective programs. 

 

Please submit your health forms to lafayettehealthforms@gmail.com throughout the summer! It is much easier to process them when it is quieter in the summer. Please remember that health certificates, dental forms, and medication forms must be renewed annually (they expire 365 days from the date of exam). If your child’s physical is usually in November and we have the physical from last November on file, it is totally fine to wait until November and submit the new form so that we have the most recent physical on file! We go by “date of last exam” for the expiration date, NOT the date the physician signed it!