Lice Check

SCHOOL WIDE LICE CHECK
Monday May 11th, 2015

Once again, our Public Health Nurse is doing us an amazing favour by agreeing to come again and do one more, school wide check for lice. Given that Public Health nurses usually only come once a year, and this will be her third visit to Huron, I would really like to say “thank you” to Maria for her support. This school wide check will be taking place on Monday May 11th, 2015. If you do not want your child to participate please call the school at 416-393-1570 and leave a message with your child’s name and room number.

As you know, any sort of regular checking for lice (and the Public Health Nurse will not come unless they know there are volunteers to help as well), as well as any follow-up checking of students who have had it when they return to school, must be done by volunteers. Over the past few years Huron has had an amazing team of parent volunteers who have very generously given of their time to assist with school wide and classroom checks, and whenever possible they try and come into the school to check when students return to school. At this time I would like to say a huge thank you to this group of parent volunteers for the many hours I know you’ve dedicated to this task.

Unfortunately however, many volunteers in this group have students who are graduating, or it’s simply time for them to give up this commitment and move on to supporting in other ways. We are therefore actively recruiting for new parents/caregivers who are willing to volunteer and help us out in this capacity. The more trained volunteers the better, as we all know our schedules are busy and the same people may not always be available when kids are returning to school and need to be checked.

If you are interested in being part of a new “Lice Checking Team” please plan to come on Monday if you can and the Public Health Nurse has offered to train new parent volunteers. And even if you can’t come on Monday, please let the office know your name and we will arrange for training at some point in the future. Give us a call and we’d be happy to take your name, or answer any questions you might have (416-393-1570). Thanks everyone for your support with this.