Year 7 & 10 Catch Up Vaccinations
A School Catch Up Vaccination program is being conducted at your child’s secondary school for Year 7 and 10 students who have not already received their scheduled year level vaccinations.
In Year 7, students are offered free vaccines for Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (dTpa) and Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
In Year 10, students are offered the Meningococcal ACWY vaccine, given as a single dose.
Date of School Catch Up Vaccination Session:
Year 7 and 10 students: Friday 16 October 2026
Consent for school vaccination
A vaccination program was held earlier in the year for Year 7 and 10 students. If your child was vaccinated as part of this program, you do not need to do anything further. However, if your child is still due for vaccination and you would like them to be vaccinated on this visit, please provide online consent. If you have already provided consent earlier in the year but your child was absent, Council’s immunisation Team will contact you to ensure consent is still valid – you do not need to provide online consent again.
Consent for each vaccine must be provided by parents/guardians for students to receive free vaccinations at school.
Parents/guardians can provide consent online for their child’s routine school vaccinations on the NSW School Vaccination Program portal. Select login with Service NSW Account.
To provide online consent you will need:
- Your Service NSW log-in details Note: If you do not have a Service NSW account, please click How to create a MyServiceNSW Account | Service NSW to register.
- Medicare card details for you and your child.
Read a step-by-step guide on how to provide consent online. Translated guides are available in Arabic, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese.
If you or your child do not have a Medicare card, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper-based consent form – available on request from your child’s school.
Parents can withdraw consent at any time before vaccination takes place:
- where consent has been given online, please log-in to the secure NSW Health portal and follow the prompts to withdraw consent, or
- where consent has been given on the physical consent form, please write to or call the school to advise the student's name, school grade and those vaccines the withdrawn consent applies to.
The benefits of providing consent online:
- easily update your child’s details
- receive SMS and/or email notifications when vaccinations are given
- faster upload of vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
For more information on routine school vaccinations, please visit www.health.nsw.gov.au/schoolvaccination.
If you require information in your language, please visit www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/school_vaccination_language.aspx