Medical Room

Contact

Dawn O’Neill - Medical Officer - dawn.oneill@swale.at
The medical room is located behind the main reception area.

For NHS-recommended advice on common childhood illnesses and guidance on when your child should stay off school, visit Patient.info

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Dear Parent/Guardian,

Your child’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is now due!

The Immunisation Service are coming into school on Monday 13th July 2026 to offer your child the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccination. For information about the HPV vaccine and frequently asked questions visit HPV FAQ's.

Please complete a consent form for your child to say YES or NO for them to have this vaccine. This must be completed by a Parent or Legal Guardian with Parental Responsibility.

Follow the steps below, before the closing date and time, which is at 11am, 2 working days before the school session date above. If you miss the cut off time, the consent form will reopen one working day after the session, enabling you to submit a form for your child to be offered the vaccination within one of our catch-up clinics.

1. Click on the following link: HPV Vaccination Consent Form or scan the QR code.

2. Enter the following school code SX131601 and click ‘Find School’ - School codes are
unique to each school and site.

If you have any questions or need support to complete the consent form, please contact our friendly team: 01273 696011 ext 3789

We may contact you if we do not receive either a YES or NO consent, to ask for your consent preference. If your child presents themselves to the Immunisation Team during the school session to request vaccination, we may offer them the opportunity to consent for themselves. (Details in the FAQs).

Please note the immunisation team may contact you by email, phone or text if there are any medical queries on the submitted consent form.

Yours sincerely
Immunisation Clinical Service Manager

Immunisation Service
Brighton General Hospital
Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
SC-TR.imms-team@nhs.net

Peacehaven Community School - HPV Parent Letter

HPV teaching resource from The University of Bristol and London School of Tropical Medicine

EDUCATE, co-produced by young people and researchers from the University of Bristol and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with input from colleagues at UK Health Security Agency, will help professionals inform Key Stage 3 students about the HPV vaccine.

The resources are aimed at Year 8 students before they are offered the HPV vaccine. However, other young people may also benefit from having the opportunity to find out more about the process. The resources for the EDUCATE lesson include films and exercises to assist learning and support the delivery of the HPV vaccination programme by providing young people with information and answering any questions they may have. It prepares them to be vaccinated at school and helps them make the decision to be vaccinated or not.

As well as covering key learning opportunities from the ‘Health and Wellbeing’ section of the Programme of Study, the lesson pack also covers the statutory Health Education requirements to ensure students know ‘about personal hygiene, germs including bacteria, viruses, how they are spread, treatment and prevention of infection, and the facts and science relating to immunisation and vaccination’.

It can be accessed for free at:
https://pshe-association.org.uk/resource/educate-hpv-vaccine

Prescribed Medication

If your child has been prescribed medication or you would like them to have access to their own tablets (eg. Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, antihistamine), you must bring it into school, in the bought or prescribed box and complete a Consent Form so that it can be kept locked away in the medical room, administered by a trained First Aider.

Medical Conditions / Dietary Needs & Disabilities

Please can you check your child(ren)'s medical information on the My Child at School app to make sure that the information we currently hold is up-to-date. Such information includes medical conditions, dietary requirements, and disabilities.

Any required amendments cannot be made through the app, but instead must please be put in writing to me via email at dawn.oneill@swale.at so that the necessary updates can be made on our school systems.

If you are unable to access your My Child at School app for any reason, please email pcs-enquiries@swale.at for support.

Protect yourself from meningitis & septicaemia

FAQ Document

Important Information: Outstanding Td/IPV and MenACWY Vaccinations

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c19132k8ke0o

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School Nurses

A Government Healthy Schools Programme representative will be run lunchtime health promotion events throughout the year, where students can speak about physical and mental health issues, openly or in a confidential one-to-one setting.