COVID/Flu Health Services Page

Ashburnham Westminster Regional School District COVID/Flu Safety Protocols

2024-2025

COVID/Flu Symptoms List

The following is a list of symptoms that we ask caregivers to monitor with their students and staff to self-monitor before attending school:

Fever (100.0° Fahrenheit or higher), chills, or shaking chills
Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
New loss of taste or smell
Muscle aches or body aches
Cough (not due to other known cause, such as chronic cough)
Sore throat, when in combination with other symptoms
Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea when in combination with other symptoms
Headache when in combination with other symptoms
Fatigue, when in combination with other symptoms
Nasal congestion or runny nose (not due to other known causes, such as allergies) when in combination with other symptoms

Additional Information

Schools should follow the recommendations for the general population listed under the Department of Public Health.
If you have symptoms and test positive for COVID and/or Flu, talk to your healthcare provider about getting treatment.
Please keep your student home if they are feeling ill.
Please report all absences to your student(s) school absence line.
Once your symptoms are improving, you may return to work/school if you have not had a fever for at least 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medicine.
If you have any further questions, please contact your school nurse directly.

School Nurse:

OAKMONT: Jessica Heffernan	978-827-5907 / [email protected]
OVERLOOK MIDDLE: Nancy Taylor	978-827-1425 / [email protected]
JOHN R. BRIGGS: Cassandra Benes	978-827-5750 / [email protected]
WESTMINSTER: Marissa Perkins	978-874-2043 / [email protected]
MEETINGHOUSE: Lisa Paicos	978-874-0163 / [email protected]
BOARD OF HEALTH - ASHBURNHAM	978-772-3335
BOARD OF HEALTH - WESTMINSTER	978-874-7409

** For exposures outside of school, please contact your local BOH.