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An intermediate school student who took pills to school has been disciplined after another student swallowed them.
It was not clear why the Kowhai Intermediate student took the medication to school last week - or how the other student came to take it.
It was suggested it may have been put in the child's lunch.
Board of trustees chair Eldon Roberts said an ambulance was called to the Kingsland school but the child was found to be unharmed.
The student who brought the medicine to school was stood down, he said.
Being stood down means a student does not go to school for up to five days, at the discretion the principal. It is a less serious form of discipline than suspension, exclusion or expulsion.
Mr Roberts did not know what type of medicine was involved.
He said the school followed policy and he was satisfied the incident was handled properly.
Principal Paul Douglas said the issue had been dealt with at school and in the wider school community.
"This is about helping children to understand what things are safe to play with and what things aren't," said Mr Douglas. He would not comment further.
In 2005, the most recent official figures available, there were 689 stand-down cases at Auckland intermediates. In all year levels in the Auckland region in 2005 there were more than 6000 stand-down cases involving 5105 students.
