PHP query to delete a camp from a specific row not working

So, i’m doing a little CRUD as a project to train PHP so I can move on an learn symfony. To give context, it’s a school managing system, with teachers, classes, students, etc. In this page i’m trying to delete the class, which works, however I want it to set the class to NULL in all students which were part of that class. For example:

jake - 11 years -  classA 
*classA deleted*
jake - 11 years - NULL

There’s also another query in the code which does the same thing, but to a specefic relation table between classes and students, which only has the student id and the class name.

Here’s the code below

<?php

if(isset($_POST["id_turma"]) && !empty($_POST["id_turma"])){

    $turma=trim($_GET["turma"]);
    echo $turma;
    // Include config file
    require_once "config.php";
    
    // Prepare a delete statement
    $sql = "DELETE FROM turmas WHERE id_turma = ?";
    
    $sql2 = "UPDATE alunos SET turma = 'NULL' WHERE turma = ".$turma;
    mysqli_query($link,$sql2);

    $sql3 = "DELETE FROM turmaalunos WHERE turma =".$turma;
    mysqli_query($link,$sql3);
    if($stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, $sql)){
        // Bind variables to the prepared statement as parameters
        mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "i", $param_id);
        
        // Set parameters
        $param_id = trim($_POST["id_turma"]);
        
        // Attempt to execute the prepared statement
        if(mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt)){
            // Records deleted successfully. Redirect to landing page
            header("location: turmas.php");
            exit();
        } else{
            echo "Oops! Something went wrong. Please try again later.";
        }
    }
     
    // Close statement
    mysqli_stmt_close($stmt);
    
    // Close connection
    mysqli_close($link);
} else{
    // Check existence of id parameter
    if(empty(trim($_GET["id_turma"]))){
        // URL doesn't contain id parameter. Redirect to error page
        header("location: error.php");
        exit();
    }
}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Delete Record</title>
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-0evHe/X+R7YkIZDRvuzKMRqM+OrBnVFBL6DOitfPri4tjfHxaWutUpFmBp4vmVor" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha384-pprn3073KE6tl6bjs2QrFaJGz5/SUsLqktiwsUTF55Jfv3qYSDhgCecCxMW52nD2" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <style>
        .wrapper{
            width: 600px;
            margin: 0 auto;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="wrapper">
        <div class="container-fluid">
            <div class="row">
                <div class="col-md-12">
                    <h2 class="mt-5 mb-3">Delete Record</h2>
                    <form action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])?>" method="post">
                        <div class="alert alert-danger">
                            <input type="hidden" name="id_turma" value="<?php echo trim($_GET["id_turma"]); ?>"/>
                            <p>Tem mesmo a certeza que deseja eliminar a informação desta turma?</p>
                            <p>
                                <input type="submit" value="Yes" class="btn btn-danger">
                                <a href="index.php" class="btn btn-secondary">No</a>
                            </p>
                        </div>
                    </form>
                </div>
            </div>        
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>