Dear
Parent or Guardian:
The New York State Education Law requires that a health report shall be furnished by each pupil in the public school when entering school, and thereafter in grades 2nd,4th, 7th, and 10th and any new entrants to the school district, must have a health examination given by either their family physician or the school doctor. (This is a recent change to the NYS Education Law effective 9/1/05). Your family physician, who has a more complete understanding of your child, can interpret his findings directly to you and assist you in carrying out any recommendations which may be indicated.
We respectfully urge, therefore,
that you take your child to your family physician and have the ANNUAL HEALTH EXAMINATION RECORD on the
other side of this sheet filled out and returned when the child enters school
in the fall..
This exam should be done NO
SOONER THAN JUNE 1st of your child’s current school year.
We are asking that all statements from
the private physician be turned in to the Health Office (NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 1st). If, by that time, we do not have the record
of examination, it will be necessary to have the examination done by the school
physician in order to have the record of the child’s physical condition on hand
for reference.
THE
FOLLOWING VACCINATIONS ARE REQUIRED AND MANDATORY before a child enters or
transfers to our school:
1. 3 or more doses of DPT
2. 3 or more doses of OPV or 3
doses of enhanced IPV
3. 1 dose of measles, mumps,
& rubella (administered after 15 months of age) and a 2nd
measles vaccine (usually MMR – any child born ON or AFTER 1/1/85)
4. 3 doses of Hepatitis B
Vaccine (all children born ON or AFTER 1/1/93)
5. VARICELLA
(chicken pox) vaccine – all children born ON or AFTER 1/1/98
and entering Kindergarten to
Grade 12, AND students born ON
or AFTER 1/1/94, and who enroll in
the 6th grade, must be immunized at the time of entry into school
(effective 1/1/05).
Sincerely yours,
Mary
Skeen, RN
Bonnie
Murphy, RN
School
Nurses