Evacuation Drill

This week, we talked to the children about what an evacuation drill is, ahead of our annual evacuation drill.

We explained to the children that there may be a time where we need to leave the school site because it is unsafe – this could be due to a fire inside and outside of the building or another problem
such as a gas leak.

It is very unlikely that this will happen, but it is good to practice what we would need to do – just in case to make sure that we aren’t scared and we all know what to do.

We asked the children?

How do we know it is an evacuation drill?

The children said “when the school bell rings continuously”

When this happens what do we need to do?

The children said “we need to leave our school site as quickly, calmly and safely as possible”

How do we do this?

The children said “like in a fire drill, we line up in our classroom remembering not to take anything with us” – the most important thing is that we get YOU out safely.

All classes then walk quietly along the pavement in single file (one long line) to the Begbrook Social Club car park guided by school adults.

When we arrive at the car park, we line up in front of our teachers silently.

This is so we can take the registers to make sure that we are all out of the building safely.

Once we have taken all the registers, we will walk sensibly back to school – ff it were a real evacuation drill, we would wait until Miss Counsell and Miss Adams tell us that it is safe to go
back to school.