Preventing the spread of infection

• Many infectious diseases are spread in the air by coughing and sneezing. So teach your children to cover their mouth when coughing and sneezing, and how to use a tissue when blowing their nose.
• Teach them to wash and dry their hands after using the toilet.
• Wash hands after touching a sick child and before preparing food.
• Don't put other children in the sick child's bed.
• Immunise your children.

If your child has any of the illnesses listed above, inform the school, and all the people they have been in contact with, from the time of exposure to the time of illness.