Health & Safety Committee

A founding purpose of the national PTA organization was to promote safety for children and youth. As early as 1899,PTAs founding organization (National Congress of Mothers) advocated for a national health bureau to provide families and communities with health information. Eventually, this effort helped establish the Children's Bureau in 1912 as part of the U.S. Public Health Service. Over the years, PTA has advocated for a wide range of child health and safety topics including nutrition, disease prevention, sex education, tobacco and alcohol education, and transportation safety.

For more than 100 years, National PTA has promoted the education, health, and safety of children and families. The WSES Health & Safety committee uses funds from the PTA budget to make purchases that promote health and safety in the school. The committee chairs use this web page to provide a comprehensive resource for teachers, parents and their children to reference in case of an emergency or to answer any questions about our school policy regarding health and safety. Click on a link below for more information:

Purchases from Health and Safety budget: 2009-2010: This committee helped purchase the new vinyl carpool signs. They are sturdier and cannot be reproduced or bought online by anyone except a school official.

Flu

Swine Flu

Add This To Your Web Site!

Inclement Weather

Campus Safety

School Lock Down

Fire Drills/ Tornado Drills

(will download info from 2009-2010 parent handbook)

Visitors Sign IN & Stickers

(link back to visitor information page under general info)

Registering to volunteer (Fieldtrips)

(will download info from 2009-2010 parent handbook

Sick Policy

(will download info from 2009-2010 parent handbook and link

back to policy on general info page)

Check-out/ Check-in policy ?

(probably should be on general info page also)

School Discipline Policy

Character Education

(link back to counselor’s page)

Bullying

CPR/First Aid Training

Playground Safety

Bus Safety

Safety

Carpool Safety

(link back to carpool notes on general information page)

Stress

Classroom Management

Nurses Station?

(should also be on general info page)

Child Nutrition Services

(link back to child nutrition services on school page)

Media Safety

Internet Safety

Spring Festival Security

(link back to security on spring festival committee page)

Wake County Safety (Environmental Health and Safety)

Wake County Emergency Preparedness

Wake County Emergency Management

(sign up for email notification)

North Carolina Safety Council

National Safety Resource

American Red Cross National PTA Health & Wellness

Parent Accident Insurance

National PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer association working

exclusively on behalf of all children and youth. For more than 100 years,

National PTA has promoted the education, health, and safety of children

and families. It was founded in 1897 in Washington, DC, and has,

over the years, united parents, teachers, and community

members of all races and backgrounds to serve all children and youth.

The National PTA was created to meet a profound challenge: to better the lives of children. PTA has flourished because it has never lost sight of its goal to improve the lives of children across our great nation.

PTA membership is open to anyone who believes in the Mission and Purposes of National PTA. Individual members may belong to more than one local PTA unit. Every person who joins a local PTA unit automatically becomes a member of both the state and National PTAs.

One of the many benefits of PTA membership is the resources provided by the National PTA. The most readily-available and widely-used resource is the National PTA's website. There is a wealth of information available at the website. The website is updated regularly and many parts of the website are available for viewing in both English and Spanish. It contains information about the PTA, its history, and information about the current officers. It also contains descriptions of its programs, lists of resources and publications available, and services provided by the National PTA. It contains information about legislation being considered in Congress, information about becoming a member, and links to all state PTA websites. It is the place to go to find out everything you need to know about the National PTA.

For a list of National PTA's major accomplishments, and biographies of the founders of National PTA, go to here.

For more information about the National PTA, go to their website at www.pta.org or contact the National PTA Office at info@pta.org.