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A report in the Folkestone and Hythe Extra states that The Churchill School in Haven Drive has one child in the reception class and another in Year 1 suffering from the illness.

Head teacher, Jennie Carter told the newspaper that they had put in extra cleaning at the school and teaching assistants were going to the toilets with children to make sure they washed their hands.

Mrs Carter is reported saying that anyone with the slightest cough was being sent home and staff who might be vulnerable due to other health conditions were being offered Tamiflu.

The newspaper also reported that three Shepway secondary schools have pupils believed to have contracted swine flu. The schools, Brockhill Park has one confirmed and two suspected cases, and at the Folkestone School for Girls and the Marsh Academy, one pupil in each school is showing symptoms but as yet are not confirmed cases.