Staff, students, and all visitors are responsible for completing a health awareness check on themselves — or on their child — before entering any of our schools, sites, or events.
Practicing health awareness helps reduce the likelihood of someone with a communicable disease coming to school while infectious. Health awareness involves regularly ensuring that you or your child are not experiencing symptoms of illness that could limit participation in regular activities. This helps prevent the spread of communicable diseases within our school communities.
- Staff, students, or other persons in the school setting who are exhibiting symptoms of illness, such as respiratory illness, should stay home until they are well enough to participate in regular activities or otherwise advised by a healthcare provider. Those experiencing certain illnesses, such as gastrointestinal illness caused by norovirus, may be advised to stay home for longer (BC CDC, Public Health Communicable Disease Guidance for K-12 Schools, Sept. 13, 2023).
- If you are unsure or concerned about your symptoms, connect with your health care provider or call 8-1-1 (BC CDC, Public Health Communicable Disease Guidance for K-12 Schools, Sept. 13, 2023).
- If your child develops symptoms while at school. The school will contact the parent/guardian and advise them to pick up their child immediately.
If your child is staying home, remember to report the absence through your school’s usual process.