UPDATE: 2.52pm

Gwent Police have confirmed that all nine pupils of Llanwern High School that were taken to hospital have now been discharged. 

A spokesman added: "Most of the pupils were taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital as a precautionary measure and released yesterday.

"Enquiries are continuing to establish the exact circumstances of what happened, what the substance involved was, and where it was obtained."

UPDATE: 10.45am
Friday 19th June

A spokesman for the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board said: “A 14 year old girl remains in hospital but is likely to be discharged today.”

UPDATE: 17.48pm

All children have now been discharged from the hospital, apart from one who has been kept in for observation, a spokesman from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board said.

UPDATE 16.44

Local education authority Newport City Council has issued a statemment.

A spokeswoman said: "Our immediate priority is the well-being of the pupils affected.

"The school will be carrying out an investigation and will be working with the police into how this incident happened."

Llanwern High School said they would not be commenting further than this today. 

 

UPDATE: 16.36

A student at Llanwern said: "I saw a paramedic and an ambulance a few minutes apart, then saw someone on a stretcher that I later found out had collapsed. People are saying it was due to legal highs and that several students in Years 7, 8 and 9 were involved."

"It was what everyone was talking about, at least in my year," he added.

 

UPDATE 16.25: 

A witness sent in this picture of ambulances at the school today.

South Wales Argus:

 

NINE pupils at Llanwern High School have been taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital this afternoon after they felt unwell after reportedly taking an unknown substance.

A 14 year old girl, five 13 year old girls, two 12 year old girls and a 11 year old boy have been taken to Royal Gwent Hospital for treatment where they remain at this time.

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokeswoman said they were called at 11.37am this morning to reports that several students at Llanwern High School in Newport had become unwell.

She said they sent three rapid response cars, three emergency ambulances and an urgent care Service vehicle, and "nine children were taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital.”

Police were called at around 12.10pm this afternoon and said that enquiries are ongoing to establish what happened, what the substance was and where it came from.