### **Welcome to the School Health Services page**

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**Certified School Nurse**

**Michele Higgins, MSN, RN, CSN**

Email: [mhiggins@nccsd.org](http://mhiggins@nccsd.org)                                             [](http://rshouey@nccsd.org)

[](http://mhiggins@nccsd.org)[](http://mhiggins@nccsd.org)High School: (814)744-8544  Fax: (814)744-8762

[](http://mhiggins@nccsd.org)

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[](http://rshouey@nccsd.org)**Health Technician**

[](http://rshouey@nccsd.org)**Renee Shouey, LPN**

Email: [rshouey@nccsd.org](http://rshouey@nccsd.org)

Elementary: (814)744-8541   Fax: (814)744-9229

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Today’s school nurse is an integral partner in each student’s educational team. In addition to providing health services and nursing care for students in the office, school nurses are instrumental in identifying trends and issues that impact student health as well as promoting wellness in areas that affect academic success.

**Please help the school nurse care for your child by informing the nurse if your child has:**

*   New diagnosis or change in health status
*   New medications or a change in medication
*   Serious illness, injury or hospitalization
*   Fractures, sprains, casts or sutures
*   Diagnosis of concussion
*   Diagnosis of contagious disease- such as strep throat, pertussis, chicken pox, etc.
*   A life-threatening or new allergy
*   Changes within the family that may impact the student while in school

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**Please help the school nurse by:**

*   Updating the phone numbers on your child’s school record so that the nurse can always reach you
*   Notifying the school if your child is going to be absent or tardy

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**Please keep your child home when the following symptoms are present:**

*   Temperature of 100 degrees or greater within the past 24 hours. Must be fever-free for 24 hours without the aid of fever-reducing medications prior to returning to school
*   Vomiting or diarrhea occurring within the past 24 hours
*   Any contagious infections. Ask your doctor when your child will no longer be contagious.  Strep infections must be treated for 24 hours before returning to school
*   Rash of unknown origin- this may indicate many different things and should be checked by your healthcare provider
*   Untreated head lice
*   Children with pain should be taken seriously. Earaches, toothaches, abdominal pain and frequent or severe headaches should be evaluated by a healthcare provider

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**Please feel free to contact your child's school health office if you have any questions or concerns.**


School Health Services

**WOLF PACK PROGRAM****The North Clarion County School District will be continuing our weekend backpack food assistance program (Wolf Packs) this school year through the partnership with the Second Harvest Food Bank (SHFB) of Northwest Pennsylvania. The mission of the Wolf Pack program is to help solve hunger by providing nutritious food to school-aged children who have little or nothing to eat outside of school during the weekends. If your child is in need of weekend meal assistance please notify the school nurse or office for more information.**

School Nurse

Wolf Pack Program

**Health Room Visits****Students are permitted to visit the health office when ill or injured with the permission of a teacher or administrator, unless it is an emergency. However, if a student is noted to have excess visits within a month’s period of time, a written notice may be sent home and/ or a meeting may be arranged to discuss possible interventions.****A school nurse or her designee must initiate all calls to parents concerning a student’s health or dismissal from school for illness or injury reasons. Students are not permitted to use a cell phone to contact a parent to arrange dismissal prior to visiting the health office or in place of visiting the nurse.**

Health Room Visit Reminder

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The Children's Health Insurance Program — or CHIP — is Pennsylvania's program to provide health coverage to uninsured children and teens who are not eligible for or enrolled in Medical Assistance. Regardless of the reasons your children might not have health insurance, CHIP may be able to help you.  For more information visit... https://www.dhs.pa.gov/CHIP/Pages/CHIP.aspx

PA Children's Health Insurance Program

Health office updates

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NORTH CLARION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT					REGULAR BOARD MEETING
HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY
APRIL 14, 2025
7:00 PM
						
AGENDA
			
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I.	ROLL CALL & MINUTES

II.	PUBLIC COMMENTS

III.	FINANCIAL REPORTS
A.	TREASURER’S REPORT
B.   	BILLS PAYABLE
C.	EXPENDITURES PAYABLE
D.	BUDGET REPORT
E.	ACTIVITY/ATHLETIC FUND REPORT
F.	CAFETERIA FUND REPORT
G.	TEACHER ABSENCE REPORT

IV.	SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT
A.	APPROVAL - 2025-2026 Clarion County Career Center Budget
B.	APPROVAL - 2025-2026 Tuition Guidelines
C.	APPROVAL - Addendum to Professional Staff Contract
D.	APPROVAL - NC and Muccio Bus Transportation Bus Driver Substitutes
E.	APPROVAL - Retirement
F.	APPROVAL - Real Estate Exemption
G.	APPROVAL - Clarion-Forest Little League Use of Grounds
H.	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

V.	HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
A.	GENERAL INFORMATION
B.	APPROVAL - Extra Curricular 2024-2025
C.	APPROVAL - Extra Curricular 2025-2026

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ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL
	A.	GENERAL INFORMATION
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VI.        OTHER BUSINESS

VII.        ADJOURNMENT

North Clarion County School District

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING AGENDA - April 14, 2025

The North Clarion Middle School Team of Austin Geer, Max Sporer and Dylan Morrison won the Design Award at the STEM Design Challenge competition on Thursday, March 27th at the Clarion YMCA. They were tasked with designing and building a solution to an infrastructure problem out of K'Nex pieces. The students designed a solar powered trolley system that would transport vehicles over valleys.

STEM Design Challenge

**At the March 3rd Western State Competition held at PennWest Clarion University, North Clarion’s team composed of Julian Bellotti, Logan Bish, Luke Dinger, Gabriel Fair, Tyler Swaim, and Kevin Young were crowned senior high tournament champions and also earned the Amaze Award.**

**The team of Morgan Bauer, Jacob Cyphert, Ethan Hastings, and Sam Smail won the middle school Excellence Award. Both of those teams have qualified for the world championship in Dallas, Texas in May.**

**The Mustash-E Bros. includes Carter Dechant, Tobin Bell, Owen Vincent, Emmet Baumcratz, Waylon Shaffer and Memphis Bowser. The team was crowned the Elementary Western Pennsylvania Teamwork Challenge Champion as well as earned the Build Award at the States competition.**

Three Robotics Teams Qualify for the World Competition in Texas

**Mr. Ron Fenske was presented with the VEX teacher of the year award.**

Robotics Teacher of the Year

Congrationals to our Academic Decathlon team for finishing 3rd in the small school division!



Photo caption: 

Back: Jack Maxwell

Front: Allison Ochs, Emily Baumcratz, Gwen Griebel, Jack Pappas, McKinzie Lencer ,  Ann Weikert, Addison Siegel.

The Academic Decthlon Team Finishes 3rd

Sophia Rhoads placed 5th in the 500 Freestyle at the District IV Championships

Swimming District IV Championship 500 Freestyle

Brookville’s Kevin Young was the lone double champion with Young winning the 200 Freestyle (1:50.97) and the 500 Freestyle (5:02.38).

Brookville Swimming Double Champion

 Brookville’s Kevin Young (middle) won the 200 and 500 Freestyle races. Photo by Susanne Fenske

Dear Parents,

We are excited to share a new addition to our elementary school! Thanks to the generous support of the North Clarion Foundation and the PTO, we now have a book vending machine at the elementary school. Students can earn tokens for the vending machine by saving their punch cards or by demonstrating outstanding acts of citizenship, friendship, and kindness.

Once a student earns a token, they can use it to “purchase” a book from the vending machine. The book they select will be theirs to keep.

We are thrilled to offer this unique opportunity to encourage reading and positive behavior!