A SCHOOL in York has received a plaque from a charitable organisation to mark its contribution to Covid vaccination training.

St Peter’s School was selected as a ‘Covid Vaccination Training Centre’ by St John Ambulance earlier this year - as part of the NHS vaccination programme.

The school provided four ventilated training rooms during the national lockdown in February, enabling St John Ambulance to train 450 volunteers in just four weeks.

Jeremy Walker, head master of the school, said: “I am so glad we were able to support St John Ambulance and huge thanks to all the volunteers for their amazing work. It was wonderful to meet so many inspiring volunteers and play a small part in helping the rapid rollout of the vaccination programme.”

Since the training programme began, St John Ambulance has trained more than 30,000 vaccination volunteers nationwide.

The charity’s volunteers have given more than 280,000 hours of their time to the vaccination programme.

Peter Ashton, vaccination site lead for York, said: “We are immensely grateful to St Peter’s School for generously offering their facilities for the Covid Vaccination Training Programme.”