- Annual Health Screening: Vision and hearing screening of all kindergartners, third graders, seventh graders, tenth graders, and newly enrolled PWCS students is conducted each fall by the school nurse and clinic volunteers. This is only a brief screening; parents should continually be alert to identify vision or hearing difficulties that indicate a need for an examination by a specialist.
- Health Services: Assess health and development, provides nursing interventions, and evaluates student responses to care.
- Health Education: Provide health education to students, staff, and parents.
- Healthy Environment: Identify health and safety concerns in the school environment.
- Nutritional Services: Support healthy food services programs.
- Physical Education/Activity: Promote health and physical education which promotes healthy behaviors.
- Counseling/Mental Health: Assess needs, provides interventions and refers students to appropriate staff or community agencies.
- Parent/Community Involvement: Promote community involvement in assuring a healthy school.
- Staff Wellness: Provide health education and wellness programs to school staff.
Health Promotion
As we are entering the cold and flu season, this is a reminder of the best health practices to decrease the spread and transmission of viruses in PWCS schools.
Please remember to cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze and throw used tissues in the trash. If you don't have a tissue, cough, or sneeze into your elbow, not your hands. Wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds, dry hands with a paper towel, and use the paper towel to turn off the faucet. If soap and water are not available, hand sanitizers may also be used to preform hand hygiene. Remember to stay home when you’re sick until at least 24 hours without a fever or the use of fever reducing medicine. Together we can help stop the spread of germs that may make you and others ill.
New regulations regarding head lice have been added to Document area- please check them out below!!
Items now allowed to be carried by students include the following:
COUGH DROPS/THROAT LOZENGES Students in grades K-12 may carry and appropriately use cough drops/throat lozenges provided they are in the original packaging. Students may not share under any circumstances.
Important Information for families who are new to Prince William County Public Schools:
If students require prescription medication during the school day, a written order from the physician is required. The medication must be in a container which has a current pharmacy label. If students require an over the counter medication, a new sealed container should be provided that is not expired. All over the counter medicines must follow package directions, or a doctor's order will be necessary.
Parents must complete and sign a form for either the prescribed and/or the over the counter medication. All types of medication must be brought to school by an adult, students cannot carry medication to school. The forms are on this webpage, and available for download by the physician or parent.
Parents of students who become ill or injured during the school day will be notified to come to school for the child. This will include students with a fever of 100.0 and over, severe cough, colds with thick or constant nasal discharge, vomiting or diarrhea, unusual rashes, difficulty breathing or difficulty moving without pain after an injury. Students who are ill with fevers, or vomiting or diarrhea will need to remain at home until the symptoms have been gone for 24 hours. Conjunctivitis (pink eye), strep infections, ringworm, and impetigo are all infections, and must be treated with medication for a minimum of 24 hours before returning to school.
TDAP REQUIREMENT FOR SIXTH GRADE ENTRY- Send documentation once obtained to the Nurse!!
Tdap boosters can be obtained from your doctor, military clinics, or the health department. Written documentation must be provided to your school upon completion of this requirement.
Please send the documentation to school and the office will give the information to me to enter into permanent records. The middle school will be informed that your student has received the immunization and there will be no delay in beginning middle school on the first day of next school year.