(B) Health and Wellness of Students

We seek parents’ cooperation to effect the following measures to ensure your child’s personal health and wellness and to heighten his/her sense of social responsibility.

1. Remind your child to maintain high standards of personal hygiene at all times.
2. Before your child leaves for school, please check on his/her health and wellness. You can check his/her temperature and look out
   for flu-like symptoms.If your child is unwell, bring him/her to see a doctor. Ensure that he/she rests at home for the full duration of
   the medical certificate (MC) and recovers fully before returning to school.
3. Remind your child to bring a water bottle to school and fill the bottle at the water coolers, and that he/she is NOT to drink directly
   from the water coolers.

If your child has a specific medical condition, please:

1. Share the information with the school through the Form Teacher.
2. Ensure that your child brings the prescribed medication for the specific medical condition to school every school day.
3. Ensure that the medication is clearly labelled with your child’s name and class.
4. Ensure that your child knows how to take the medication or use it on himself/herself.
5. Note that the school and teachers are NOT to administer medication to your child. The school staff can help to supervise your child while he/she is taking or using the prescribed medication.

The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has been working closely with schools to promote healthy eating among pupils as part of the holistic development of our children. Since the start of Term II, our school has implemented the HMSP. The food stallholders are selling set meals which include food in the four main groups, i.e. wholegrains, fruit, vegetables and meat (or others). We would like to seek parents’ assistance to encourage your children to eat the vegetables and fruits that come with the set meal. The circular from HPB provides more information.

HPB Circular on HMSP for Parents

The school has implemented the midday snack break since 9 January 2017. Riverians clearly appreciate and enjoy the snack break as it helps them to sustain their energy level till the end of the school day. Parents are reminded to prepare healthy snacks which are easy for their child to manage during the 10-minute snack break in the classroom. It would be helpful for pupils to have wet wipes with them to clean up after the snack break.

The following table indicates items that are acceptable and those that are not acceptable for the snack break.

The midday snack break will take place in the classroom for 10 minutes during the period from 12.00pm to 12.30pm. Pupils will continue with their learning activities in the classroom while snacking.

If the period from 12.00pm to 12.30pm is conducted outside the classroom (e.g. PE lesson), the snack break may be rescheduled to an earlier or later period.

During the snack break, pupils are not allowed to go to the canteen to purchase food.

Sharing of food is not allowed. Exchange of food items is also not allowed.

All pupils are to bring a working Oral Digital Thermometer to school on every school day.  Pupils are encouraged to use the thermometer to monitor their own health and check if they have fever.  This is to foster in pupils a sense of personal responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.

Temperature-Taking Exercise

The school conducts temperature-taking exercise periodically. Every pupil is expected to have with him/her a working thermometer on the day of the exercise.

We understand that some parents would like their child to celebrate his/her birthday with his/her classmates and teachers. We are happy to share that the Form Teacher and Co Form Teacher have simple and meaningful class practices to celebrate the children’s birthdays, e.g. class singing of the birthday song.

To cultivate a culture of simplicity and appreciation as well as to promote a healthy lifestyle, we appeal to parents not to send birthday cakes, food items,tidbits, goodie bags and gift-packs for birthday celebrations in school. This is also to safeguard the safety of children (e.g. food allergies). We seek your understanding and cooperation for this.