Does your primary notify you of illnesses?

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There’s been hand, foot and mouth in school this term. Today the classes where children have it were sent a comms from the school with guidance on what to look out for etc.
Seems weird not to send that round to whole school given shared mixed spaces, siblings, older pupils helping with reading, kids being punished by being sent to other classrooms etc.

Most people have come across the common childhood illnesses way before now.

No, our school will only tell the class with the affected kids, and only once a certain threshold of cases is reached. Except at the start of the year there was an outbreak of norovirus. A letter was emailed to all school families, then we got the same letter from the secondary school the following week, unsurprisingly. Luckily it was half term which broke the cycle.

I don’t think our school ever sent any illness notifications. Only the occasional “there are nits in the class” letters.

They used to do it every week, sending out the attendance for each year. It would say things like attendance is down in year x because of chickenpox, down in year a and b because of covid, down in year c because of scarlet fever. It was like a smorgasbord of illnesses which you could see working their way between year groups. They stopped after a couple of months and just do the line on attendance, whilst staying silent on the plague pit reasons behind attendance drops! Parents will sometimes send messages on the class whatsapp saying their child has nits or hfm etc, but school doesn’t normally say anything.

When my dc were at primary this sort of email would only be sent to the affected class (nits, foot & mouth, chicken pox etc)

Odd, so they probably have to send it to another class in a week etc etc?

The notifications about illness would be sharing special category data and could lead to children being identified maybe?

We don’t get notified of anything - I have no idea of attendance rates or what illnesses are floating around for my kids’ class or anyone else.

No, only when there’s been scarlet fever because they have to inform about that

nits and worms have been the only i’ve seen.

but they have shared to affected classes in this instance