Essential Oil Usage Guidelines

The school nurses in both the lower and upper school clinics offer 100% therapeutic grade essential plant oil aromatherapy to help students manage minor discomforts during the school day such as headaches, tummy aches, stuffy noses, fatigue, anxiety, and stress.

Simply breathing in essential oil fragrance often helps students feel better and relieves their minor discomforts without the need for medication.

Here are examples of the ways TGS nurses use essential oils:

  • Using peppermint oil to open up blood vessels, which increases blood circulation and helps to relieve headaches, tummy aches, and fatigue
  • Offering Lavender oil to calm the brain’s emotional center and help reduce stress and anxiety
  • Using a combination of peppermint and eucalyptus oils to help relieve minor nasal congestion

Sometimes the plant oils are offered to students in the clinic in addition to medication to help medication be more effective. Use of essential plant oils is one tool our school nurses consider to care for a student’s body, mind, and soul in a holistic way.

If parents do not want their child to be offered essential oils by the school nurses, they are asked to contact the lower or upper school nurse via email (or using the contact form below) at any time to make their wishes known.


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April 29, 2025
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    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 8:15 am- 8:45 am
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    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 8:45 am- 3:15 pm
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    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
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    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
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    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
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April 30, 2025
  • State Tennis Tournament

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 12:00 am- 11:59 pm
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  • Chamber Orchestra

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 7:15 am- 8:15 am
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  • 2nd Gr - The Exodus Retold Rehearsal

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:00 am- 2:30 pm
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    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:00 am- 3:30 pm
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Dress Rehearsal (Mrs. K)

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:15 am- 9:00 am
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  • Lower School Chapel

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:30 am- 8:55 am
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Dress Rehearsal (Stewart)

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
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  • Upper School Chapel

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 9:25 am- 10:10 am
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Dress Rehearsal (Petrak)

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
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    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
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    Date: April 22, 2025 - April 29, 2025
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April 28, 2025
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    Date: April 28, 2025 - April 28, 2025
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    Date: April 28, 2025 - April 28, 2025
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    Date: April 28, 2025 - April 28, 2025
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  • 2nd Gr - The Exodus Retold Rehearsal

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 8:00 am- 2:30 pm
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  • 3rd Gr - Marine Discovery Center (Gutierrez & DiBartolomeo)

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 8:00 am- 3:30 pm
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Rehearsal (Mrs. K)

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 8:15 am- 8:45 am
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  • 6th Gr - Orange County Regional History Center Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 8:45 am- 3:15 pm
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Rehearsal (Stewart)

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 9:15 am- 9:45 am
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Rehearsal (Petrak)

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 10:15 am- 10:45 am
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    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 1:10 pm- 2:10 pm
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    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
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  • Youth Soccer - K-1st Grade

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 3:15 pm- 4:15 pm
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  • 1st-3rd Garden Club

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
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  • Typing (4th-8th)

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
    Time: 3:20 pm- 4:20 pm
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  • Softball District Tournament

    Date: April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
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  • Chamber Orchestra

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    Time: 7:15 am- 8:15 am
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    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:00 am- 2:30 pm
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  • 3rd Gr - Marine Discovery Center (Swain & Costar)

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:00 am- 3:30 pm
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Dress Rehearsal (Mrs. K)

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:15 am- 9:00 am
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    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 8:30 am- 8:55 am
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    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 9:15 am- 10:00 am
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  • Upper School Chapel

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 9:25 am- 10:10 am
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  • K4 - Three Piggy Opera Dress Rehearsal (Petrak)

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 10:15 am- 11:00 am
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  • K Garden Club

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 2:10 pm- 3:10 pm
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  • Youth Sports - K4-Kindergarten Track Club

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    Time: 2:30 pm- 3:15 pm
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  • Youth Sports - Flag Football 2-6 Grade

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 3:00 pm- 5:00 pm
    See more details

  • Brioso Choir

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 3:15 pm- 4:15 pm
    See more details

  • Stitch Lab (3rd-6th)

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 3:20 pm- 4:20 pm
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  • Guitar and Orchestra Rehearsals for Spring Concert

    Date: April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
    Time: 4:00 pm- 8:00 pm
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