June 5th, 2016
Dear N1 Parents,
We have been confirmed with several cases of Influenza A mostly in N1 Hope along with individual cases in other classes.
I would like to request that all students who have been diagnosed or those showing symptoms stay at home for 7 days from the day of diagnosis. Parents who feel that their child is prone to illness may opt to have the children nap at home for the next few days until the air is clear. We encourage that parents who are able to, pick their children up after lunch to rest at home for the next week. For those who cannot, we are happy to keep the children. This will also lessen the circulation of illness among children and give us daily time to ventilate rooms.
As we have informed parents often that during the change in weather conditions, especially from the summer months into the monsoon, we have to be very cautious of HFM and Influenza spreading. These illnesses do not begin “in school” but rather from individuals who come in contact with our children. This may be either adults (parents, teachers, caregivers) who often may be carriers but not affected with the virus, or other children who are already infected but have not shown signs and symptoms. Having said that, we would like to thank all N1 parents for being vigilant and informing our teachers of illness and keeping the children at home.
We area monitoring the situation and have been doing so since our first case. We have also requested teachers who are now ill, to stay at home until they are clear of the illness.
Our daily cleaning follows the standard procedures of cleaning up the class and the toys with disinfectant.
We have fumigated all rooms since Friday and will be doing another round of fumigation on Sunday evening. All surfaces, playground equipment, toilets and floor have been cleaned with ECO Lab disinfectants (as is our daily procedure) and more stringently during the weekend.
We will be doing a thorough screening every morning as well.
Please continue to help us monitor this situation as you have so that we can ride out this bout of illness.
Wishing all my little ones a speedy recovery!
Sincerely
Narisa Letnamwongwan
(NK Principal)
June 5th, 2016
Dear N1 Parents,
We have been confirmed with several cases of Influenza A mostly in N1 Hope along with individual cases in other classes.
I would like to request that all students who have been diagnosed or those showing symptoms stay at home for 7 days from the day of diagnosis. Parents who feel that their child is prone to illness may opt to have the children nap at home for the next few days until the air is clear. We encourage that parents who are able to, pick their children up after lunch to rest at home for the next week. For those who cannot, we are happy to keep the children. This will also lessen the circulation of illness among children and give us daily time to ventilate rooms.
As we have informed parents often that during the change in weather conditions, especially from the summer months into the monsoon, we have to be very cautious of HFM and Influenza spreading. These illnesses do not begin “in school” but rather from individuals who come in contact with our children. This may be either adults (parents, teachers, caregivers) who often may be carriers but not affected with the virus, or other children who are already infected but have not shown signs and symptoms. Having said that, we would like to thank all N1 parents for being vigilant and informing our teachers of illness and keeping the children at home.
We area monitoring the situation and have been doing so since our first case. We have also requested teachers who are now ill, to stay at home until they are clear of the illness.
Our daily cleaning follows the standard procedures of cleaning up the class and the toys with disinfectant.
We have fumigated all rooms since Friday and will be doing another round of fumigation on Sunday evening. All surfaces, playground equipment, toilets and floor have been cleaned with ECO Lab disinfectants (as is our daily procedure) and more stringently during the weekend.
We will be doing a thorough screening every morning as well.
Please continue to help us monitor this situation as you have so that we can ride out this bout of illness.
Wishing all my little ones a speedy recovery!
Sincerely
Narisa Letnamwongwan
(NK Principal)