The full list of dates secondary school children will receive their nasal spray flu vaccine

Thousands of secondary school children across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan are set to receive their nasal spray flu vaccination before they break up for the Christmas holidays.

Cardiff and Vale School Nursing Immunisation Team will be visiting schools between November 22 and December 19 to administer the nasal flu vaccine to all pupils from Year 7 to Year 11.

Parents should look out for further details from their child’s school regarding links to electronic consent forms. They need to ensure that these are completed before the submission cut-off date. Any children whose forms are submitted late will be offered an appointment at a catch-up clinic at a later date. 

Anyone can get flu but children have the highest rate of infection and flu can be serious for them. Complications can include bronchitis, pneumonia and ear infections. Some children get so ill they need to go into hospital.

Most children have the vaccine as a quick and painless nasal spray, which is highly effective at protecting against the virus. Flu vaccines are very safe and simple to give to children. There is still a concern that children who didn’t encounter the flu virus between 2020-2022, when there was less social mixing, could be particularly vulnerable.  

The School Nursing Immunisation Team will be visiting secondary schools on the following dates:

November 22

The Cathedral School

Woodlands High School

Cantonian High School

November 23

Cardiff Sixth Form College

Eastern High

November 24

Whitmore High School

Mary Immaculate High School

November 27

Cardiff West Community High School

Howell’s School

Bryn y Deryn

November 28

Llantwit Major School

Cowbridge Comprehensive School (day 1)

Bryn Sych Farm

November 29

Cowbridge Comprehensive School (day 2)

November 30

Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern

Red Rose School

Cathays High School

December 1

Kings Monkton School

Corpus Christie Catholic High School

Willows High School

December 4

St Johns College Secondary

St Illtyds High School

December 5

St Cyres High School

December 6

Stanwell High School

December 7

Whitchurch High (Lower school)

Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf (day 1)

December 8

Whitchurch High (Upper school)

Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf (day 2)

December 11

Llanishen High (day 1)

Cardiff High (day 1)

December 12

St Teilos High School

December 13

Pencoedtre High

St Richard Gwyn

Derw Newydd

December 14

Fitzalan High

Bishop of Llandaf

December 15

Ysgol Plasmawr

Radyr High

December 18

Cardiff High

Llanishen High

December 19

Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg

 

Meanwhile, parents of two and three-year-olds are also encouraged to make an appointment with their GP to get their child vaccinated against flu. Young children can spread flu easily to more vulnerable members of their family and community.

The Cardiff and Vale School Nursing Immunisation Team has already visited all primary schools in both local authority areas. While the flu vaccine is offered to all schoolchildren, only children in a clinical risk group are invited for a Covid-19 vaccine.

People who are eligible for the flu vaccine include:   

  • Children aged two and three years on August 31, 2023    

  • Children in primary school from reception class to year 6 (inclusive)    

  • Children in secondary school from year 7 to year 11 (inclusive)    

  • People aged six months to 64 years in clinical risk groups   

  • People aged 65 years and older (age on March 31, 2024)  

  • All adult residents in Welsh prisons residents   

  • Pregnant women   

  • Carers  

  • People with a learning disability    

  • Staff in nursing homes and care homes with regular client contact    

  • Staff providing domiciliary care   

  • Staff providing frontline NHS/Primary care services   

  • Healthcare workers (including healthcare students) with direct patient contact  

  • Homeless people.  

 

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