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.