Parental Information re Vaccinations
Our ref: TSE/lti
23rd September 2021
Dear Parent/Carers
This autumn, all young people aged 12-15 are being offered a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the same time as the annual flu vaccine.
Children who are 12 years old and over on the day the School Age Immunisation Service (SAIS) team visits, will be offered a vaccination as part of the in-school vaccination programme.
Year 7 students will be offered the flu vaccination only unless they are 12 years of age as at Tuesday 28th September.
Our academy will be hosting the vaccine clinics from 28th September – 1st October.
Our local SAIS provider, Sirona Care & Health, is legally responsible for the delivery of the Covid-19 vaccine and flu vaccine to students in our region of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Like all school-based vaccination programmes, these vaccinations will be administered by Sirona Care & Health following the usual approach to school-based immunisation.
Links to the relevant consent forms for both the flu and Covid-19 vaccines, will be emailed to the number 1 contact on our system as provided by you. We will also put the forms provided by Sirona Care & Health on our website. If you would like a printed copy please contact us. Please do not return these to Hans Price Academy.
Please follow the instructions on the forms and return direct to Sirona Care & Health.
Parents can provide consent for both the flu and the Covid-19 vaccine, for one or other of the vaccines or neither. Our academy is not delivering or responsible for the vaccines and so will not have access to any of the consent data that is gathered.
All eligible students will be asked to attend the clinic, where their consent data will be checked by Sirona Care & Health staff. Students without the appropriate consents will not be vaccinated.
For further information about the Covid-19 vaccination programme in schools, please refer to:
COVID-19 vaccination – A guide for children and young people (publishing.service.gov.uk)
COVID-19 vaccination programme for young people: guidance for parents – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
For further information about Sirona Care & Health and the vaccination clinics, please visit: http://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/contact-sirona/
If you do have any questions or concerns, we are always here to support. Please contact myself or Liz Tincknell, Senior Operations Manager, at the Academy via the usual school number (01934) 629307.
Kind regards
Tony Searle
Principal
Hans Price Academy
