If your child/ren have a medical condition requiring regular or emergency administration of medication, please make sure you have the following ready for drop off in 2024:

1. A CURRENT Action Plan for Asthma and Allergies – these are to be reviewed on a yearly basis, if your current action plan expires by the end of March 2024 please arrange a new one over the school holidays as the start of the year can be very busy.
2. An accompanying letter from a Doctor for all medication that may need to be administered during school hours – detailing when, why and how much medication is required to be administered at school.

IF YOUR CHILD/REN SELF ADMINISTER THEIR MEDICATION THIS NEEDS TO BE CLEARLY DISPLAYED IN BOTH THE LETTER FROM THE DOCTOR AND IN THE ACTION PLAN

Parents are also required to provide a letter detailing their consent for their child/ren to administer their own medication.

1. Medication must be in the original container and must have a pharmacy label with your child’s name and the prescribing Doctor/Dentist’s details.
2. If required, Parents will need to fill out an “Administration of Medication” form. If your child requires more than one medication, a form for each medication will need to be filled out.

Please note that unless all of these are received, staff cannot administer medication during school hours.

Providing Medication to the School

Parents are welcome to drop medication to the Admin Office between Monday 15^th January and Friday 19^th January from 9am – 3pm daily.

If you cannot make these times, you are welcome to drop into the admin office between 9am & 12pm during Week 1 of term (starting 22nd January).

Students are not permitted to transport their own medication. An adult must attend and provide medication and complete any require consents.

For all emergency medication, once it has been received and recorded by administration, all medication (e.g. asthma medication, anaphylaxis medication) will be put into a labelled box and stored in the administration building First Aid Room.

If your child/ren’s medical status changes (e.g. asthma action plan no longer relevant, allergy severity decreased etc) please let the school know via email through firstaid@newfarmss.eq.edu.au so that we may update our systems.

The office wishes you all a safe and happy holiday and we look forward to seeing you all return in 2023.