School sends urgent warning to parents as student needs 'medical attention' after vaping

Headteacher Agnes Hart, of Rainham Mark Grammar School successful Rainham, Kent, has asked parents to speech astir the dangers of vaping aft a pupil needed "medical attention" aft utilizing an e-cigarette

A secondary schoolhouse headteacher has sent a informing missive to parents aft a pupil needed “medical attention” arsenic a effect of vaping.

Agnes Hart, of Rainham Mark Grammar School, is asking mums and dads to talk to their children astir the dangers of underage e-cigarette usage pursuing the incident. In a missive sent yesterday, the headteacher said: “I americium penning to pass you of an incidental that has impacted connected our schoolhouse community.

“As a enactment team, we person made the determination to stock this with you arsenic we judge it is important that we enactment successful concern successful bid to enactment and safeguard our students. Following an incidental that resulted successful 1 of our students requiring aesculapian attention, we consciousness it is important that we punctual parents and students of our expectations and the effect of utilizing vapes oregon immoderate prohibited items.

“This is simply a nationalist arsenic good arsenic a section contented and we are moving with outer agencies arsenic good arsenic Medway Council to proceed to rise a deeper knowing of the dangers of vaping.”

Teachers volition beryllium searching children astatine the schoolhouse if they judge they person prohibited items and volition beryllium confiscating them, KentOnline reports. Students recovered vaping oregon smoking astatine the schoolhouse volition besides beryllium disciplined.

Mrs Hart said: “If pursuing a search, we inactive person tenable grounds to judge the young idiosyncratic has a prohibited point connected the schoolhouse tract we volition interaction parents and inquire them to cod their child. We volition proceed to punctual our students astir the dangers of underage smoking and vapes.”

The schoolhouse works with Kent and Medway schoolhouse nurses to supply a drop-in work for its students. It volition beryllium refurbishing its toilets and is besides reviewing however they are being accessed passim the day.

Some schools person Triton Sensors successful toilets, which are capable to observe if students are vaping oregon smoking. It is not known if these are being installed astatine Rainham Mark arsenic portion of the refurbishment.

Students volition beryllium fixed a walk if they request to entree the toilet during acquisition time, which volition alteration teachers to show who is retired of lessons.

Mrs Hart added: “The immense bulk of our students adhere to our schoolhouse polices and expectations and I americium highly arrogant of however our students supported the young idiosyncratic who fell sick owed to vaping.

“Our schoolhouse assemblage has been impacted by this and we privation to enactment unneurotic to rise consciousness and knowing astir the dangers of underage smoking and the interaction that vaping has connected young people.

“We person chosen to stock this acquisition with you arsenic it is lone done moving with parents, students and unit volition we amended young radical to marque informed and steadfast decisions.

“If you cognize a young idiosyncratic who whitethorn beryllium impacted by smoking oregon vaping, and you consciousness they necessitate further enactment delight interaction the pursuing members of unit via the schoolhouse bureau 01634 364151.”