| There is a separate Health Centre in each of our Infant, Junior and Senior Schools. These Centres are located on Level 1 of their respective School buildings. A Lead Nurse, who reports to the Head of School, coordinates our team of nursing professionals.
The mission of our Health Centres is to:
• provide prompt and effective first aid in a supportive and nurturing environment;
• care for the students in a holistic manner;
• inform a student’s teacher if he or she is judged to be unfit to continue in class and the teacher and a parent if the student needs to be taken home or to see a medical practitioner;
• maintain student health records and details of all accidents;
• keep the Chief Executive Officer well informed about the general health of students and about any significant accidents that occur on site; and
• raise awareness of the importance of hygiene and health management. |
| All accidents are taken seriously and are recorded separately. A staff member who witnesses an accident or the person supervising the area at the time of an accident must complete an accident form. A nurse will decide whether the Head of School’s presence is required at a Health Centre or at the scene of an accident. |
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Health Centres are all open from 07:30 to 14:50. In addition, the Junior School Health Centre remains open until 19.30 to provide first aid, if needed, for students participating in Co-Curricular Activities (CCAs).
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In the event of a serious emergency, a nurse can be summoned from a Health Centre to attend to a sick or injured child in any indoor or outdoor School facility. The Secretaries of the Infant, Junior and Senior School offices can call our nurses directly. Members of our nursing team are well known to our students and they are easily identifiable as they wear the Tanglin nurses’ uniform. |
Except in the case of an emergency or an accident in a break time, students should visit a Health Centre when sent by a member of staff or with the permission of a staff member.
The impressive capability of our team of nurses was demonstrated when Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) broke out in Asia in 2002. At that time, students and staff had to report to their respective Health Centre upon arrival at School and our team of nurses took everyone’s temperature before they were allowed to report to their classrooms.
The School strongly requests that students with temperatures or who are unwell should not be sent to school. Those found to be ill will be sent to a Heath Centre and a nurse will contact a parent asking them to collect their child from the Health Centre as soon as possible. |
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| We are grateful to the parents of students at the School for their kind cooperation with this policy, which is in the best interest of the entire School community. Adherence to this policy is especially important at this time as concern exists about a possible outbreak of Bird Flu among humans. |
| The nurses in our Health Centres, through their interactions with our students, also play an important role in reinforcing the importance of good hygiene, safety and sound health management. Parents with a child on medication prescribed by a doctor to be taken during the day can pre-arrange for a nurse to administer a prescribed dose to their child at a specified time. Students may not self-administer prescription medication at School. |
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The contact details for our Health Centres are outlined below.
Tanglin Trust School is a place where every student can achieve his or her best. Our Health Centres support our students if they are ill or injured and foster rapid recovery so that interruption to effective learning is minimised. |
