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January 12, 2024
Reminder!
Don't forget we are out of school on Monday, January 15th to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I hope you all have a safe and warm weekend!
Health Office Note - PHM in Partnership with Saint Joseph Health System
As parents, we know that it is always difficult to decide when a child should stay home from school. Here are a few guidelines to help you make that decision. We appreciate your help keeping our school a healthy environment for all students!
- A fever of 100 degrees or higher before school in the morning- do not have the student return to school until the student has been fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.
- A heavy cold or hacking cough even without a fever (cough that disturbs normal activity)
- Diagnosis from physician of Whooping Cough/Pertusis- student should stay home from school until he/she has received 5 full days worth of antibiotic treatment
- Vomiting- student should stay home until he/she can keep food down and is free of symptoms for 24 hours
- Diarrhea- student should remain home until free of symptoms for 24 hours
- Pink Eye (Conjunctivitis)- there can be many causes for red eyes, not all of which are communicable. Refer to your health care provider for an evaluation. The Academy of Pediatrics advises that children with purulent conjunctivitis (defined as pink or red conjunctiva with white or yellow discharge, often with matted eyelids after sleep, and eye pain or redness of the eyelids or skin surrounding the eyes) be excluded until examined by a health care provider and approved for readmission. With bacterial conjunctivitis, health care providers usually recommend exclusion until 24 hours after starting topical antibiotic therapy.
- Strep Throat- student can return to school after they have been on antibiotics for at least 24 hours and are fever free
- Chicken Pox- exclusion from school for one week after the first eruption appears or all lesions are dry and crusted
- Unexplained rash, blisters, or draining sores- student should see his/her health care provider for a diagnosis and recommendations
Many illnesses are most communicable at the beginning. If your child is kept home, fewer children will be exposed to the illness. Allowing your child to stay home at the beginning of an illness will actually help him/her to be more successful in school and lose less school time in the long run.
Remember, good hygiene and good hand washing techniques can help to prevent many illnesses! Please get a flu shot! Call your health care provider with any concerns during an illness!
Classroom Libraries
This week teachers have made available a catalog of the books in their classroom libraries, which have been shared either through their parent newsletters or through Canvas. Parents have access to the catalog of each class their student attends. We value this opportunity for partnership and transparency as we create a literacy rich environment.
eLearning Information
As shared in previous newsletters, schools are limited to three days of eLearning according to Indiana law HB-1093. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation will use if warranted, three weather-related days as needed throughout the year. If additional makeup days are required, they will be added to the end of the school year calendar.
Please see the links below for a letter from the Learning Division regarding eLearning and also technology instructions.
Bring in your pennies to help St. Jude Hospital!
St. Jude’s is a place where children suffering from childhood cancer and other serious illnesses can go to receive life-saving treatment regardless of their race, religion or ability to pay. So join B100 and Moran’s quest for a million pennies to save children.
Bring pennies, nickels, dimes or quarters and place them in your red penny bucket. We will empty your bucket into the giant bucket in the hallway.
We are collecting pennies December 1 – February 1
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Moran Elementary School
Amanda Fox, Assistant to the Principal
Email: lrussell@phm.k12.in.us
Website: https://moran.phmschools.org/
Location: 305 North Beech Road, Osceola, IN, USA
Phone: 574.674.8504
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1604348339650778