Teign School is an 11–18

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located in

Kingsteignton Kingsteignton ( ), is a town and civil parish in south Devon, England. It lies at the head of the Teign Estuary to the west of Teignmouth in the Teignbridge district. It is bypassed by the A380 and is also on the A383, A381, B3193 and B31 ...

, a town to the north of

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. The original 1936 building has been expanded upon substantially and numerous additional buildings have been constructed within the grounds. The school has entry level at Year 7. The school also has a

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centre. In 2004 it was awarded specialist Science status by the Specialist Schools Trust. The most recent

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inspection was on 16 April 2015 which resulted in a 'good' rating.

History

The school was previously Kingsteignton Senior School.

Tuberculosis outbreak

In 2015 there was an outbreak of

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(TB) at the school. On 25 March 2015, the headteacher Mark Woodlock sent a letter to students and parents explaining that ''"a student in Year 10 at Teign School has been diagnosed with Tuberculosis"''. In all about two hundred pupils were diagnosed with latent TB (the form of the disease which is not infectious) and ten were treated for the more serious, active form of TB. The initial infection probably came from a pupil from overseas who was not diagnosed with TB until he left the school in the summer of 2014. His former classmates were tested in February 2015 with additional screening in April of years 10 to 12 and then finally the whole school in June.

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(PHE) which was responsible for the screening programme followed national guidelines that restrict screening firstly to family and former classmates. However, in October Dr Sarah Harrison, deputy director of health protection for PHE said that the testing ''"could have been done a bit quicker, and I think certainly for an infectious teenager we would be expecting things to happen a bit more quickly than they did"''. The story caught the attention of many local and national newspapers, including the

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which broadcast an episode of Inside Out South West on the outbreak.

References

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