The Flagpole

The most recent Parent Toolkit webinar, entitled ‘Mobile phone management, including apps and social media’ took place on Tuesday 11 January. Mrs Sharpe provided excellent guidance for parents and carers on the benefits and dangers of mobile phones, how to manage your child’s device use and the importance of ongoing conversations with your child on how they interact with their phone. She also shared some excellent resources and a short video from https://internetmatters.org. The recording of the webinar along with all the links from the session can be found on the Parent Toolkit Section of My School Portal, or you can access the recording direct here.

The next webinar, ‘Support your child with studying at home’, takes place on Wednesday 2 February at 6.30pm, the link to the webinar, along with the programme of all future webinars and links to access them, can be found on My School Portal here.

Please send any suggestions for future webinar topics that we have not already planned to cover to Mrs Beth Sharpe at BethSharpe@Princethorpe.co.uk

Flu

We held a successful flu vaccination in school earlier this week. If you missed this and would like your child to have a nasal flu vaccination. Please book into a community clinic using the following link www.swiftqueue.co.uk. Please note appointments are limited.

Covid-19

The Immunisation Team are returning to school on Tuesday 8 February to offer second dose vaccinations to any child aged 12–15 years old (provided it has been 12 weeks following their first dose), as well as to offer the first dose of vaccination to any child in this age group yet to receive their Covid-19 vaccine. If your child has recently tested positive for covid, they will need to wait 12 weeks before receiving a covid vaccination.

Please click here link if you wish to book and record your consent. Note this link expires at midday on Wednesday 2 February 2022. Appointments will only be offered to those pupils for whom consent has been given.

Pupils may become eligible before the School Aged Immunisation Service is able to return to school, parents may also wish to access the alternative offer of vaccination by having this at an out of school setting. Any pupil who turns 12 after the vaccination visit takes place, or any pupil that is unable to be vaccinated for any reason during the in-school visit would be encouraged to take up this offer when they are eligible. 

There may also be additional vaccination sites that are more local to you available on the National Booking Service, which you can book into by calling 119 or by using the following link: National Booking - Covid Vaccination Link

Year 9 Diptheria/Tetanus/Polio and Meningitis ACWY

These vaccinations will be offered in school on March 14 2022. An email containing a link to the electronic consent form and further info has been emailed to all Year 9 parents. Please note this link expires on Sunday 23 January. After this you will no longer be able to book onto this clinic. Appointment times will be given to pupils nearer the time.

Human Papillomavirus

Dose 1 is usually offered to all year 8 pupils with a follow up dose in Year 9. Please note that the dates originally published in the paper Lent calendar have now been postponed. This will no longer take place on the 9 and 10 March. As soon as we are offered new dates I will let parents know. For those in Year 10 that may have missed a dose of this vaccination, new appointments will soon be offered at community clinics. I will publish these details as soon as I have them

NHS Consent Portal

Please note that as a school we do not have access to the NHS consent portal if you have any queries about consent or wish to withdraw after it has been submitted, please contact the Immunisation service directly for Covid vaccinations: CWPTSchoolCovidVaccinations@covwarkpt.nhs.uk 

For all other vaccinations NORTHIMMS@covwarkpt.nhs.uk

Whilst I dont' have any access to the appointment system, as always I am happy to answer any queries. Please email me at paulagreig@princethorpe.co.uk

Mrs Paula Greig
Senior Matron 

The National Citizen Service is a voluntary personal and social development programme for 16–17 year olds in England and Northern Ireland, funded largely by money from the UK Government and it will be working with Princethorpe College this year to deliver an unforgettable two week summer experience for students in Year 11.

The NCS programme offers young people, aged 16-17 (or age 15 and in Year 11), a once in a lifetime opportunity to do something meaningful with their summer break, as well as a chance to develop key skills for employment whilst taking on new challenges that will set them up for adult life. They'll also do something good for their local community, carrying out a project to support a cause they care about.

Throughout 2021, teenagers on NCS donated 500,000 hours of their time to help rebuild their communities following the pandemic, showing what a difference young people can make when they work together towards a goal.

More information on the NCS summer programme can be found here. If you are interested in taking part in this exciting opportunity please contact Mr Isaacs via email