Absences

Report your child's absence each day your child is ill by calling the attendance line at your child's school of attendance.  Please report the reason for the child's absence. If your child is ill, report the symptoms and/or any diagnosed communicable condition. Please contact: Marcia Noonan ( RN, PHN, M.Ed ) Health Services Coordinator at ( 949) 936-7925, if your child has any injury or illness that will require modifications in his/her school day, prior to returning to school.

  • Please contact individual teachers via voice mail or email for homework questions.
  • Homebound instruction may be requested after three weeks  absence.
  • If your child/adolescent becomes ill at school, and needs to go home, Health Office staff will attempt to contact a parent/guardian.
  • The emergency contact on the Student Emergency Card will be called if we feel your child needs to go home and we are unable to reach a parent/guardian.
  • Your child/adolescent will not be allowed to leave school without an adult. Please update the health office with any changes in these contacts.

Stay In Request For Illness:
The school staff maintains that, generally, if a student is well enough to attend school, he/she is able to go outside at recess and participate in physical education. We do understand that there are circumstances where this is not true, and we will grant a 1 day permission to stay inside at recess. Permission must be asked for in writing by the parent/guardian or physician. This note of permission is to be given to the teacher at the beginning of the day.

WHEN CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE IN SCHOOL

A healthy school environment is essential for student learning.  Preventing the spread of infectious disease is one of the ways the Irvine Unified School District seeks to provide a healthy learning environment.

A child who has a temperature of 100ºF or higher, has an undiagnosed rash or experiences nausea and vomiting is excluded from school.  Any child suspected of having an infectious disease/condition is also excluded and may not return to school until she/he has been symptom free for 24 hours after being sent home or a physician provides a written statement that the child is not contagious.

Some of the more commonly occurring infectious conditions in school age children include pink eye, flu, chickenpox and Fifth disease.  Children with signs of head lice or the eggs (nits) of the louse are also excluded until all eggs (nits) are removed.