If you are at school when a fire alarm sounds, please follow the directives of the teacher you are assisting. Should you be in the Cooking Room, you will escort your charges to join their class in the playground, by going up the library stairs. Fire drills are held every term, with a full drill at the beginning of the school year, to familiarise the children with these procedures. Teachers escort classes down designated routes to playground assembly points, closing classroom doors after them. Children are reminded to remain silent from the moment the fire bell begins until dismissal in the playground.
Teachers check the corridors and toilets as they leave.
Once in the playground, office staff hand out registers When classes are lined up, teachers take roll call. Children on errands will go straight to the playground and join their class there. Children with specialist teachers or out of the classroom with support teachers will be taken down to the playground by this teacher. Children in the library will be taken down to the playground by the Librarian, assisted by any mothers present. Children in the cooking room will be escorted to the playground by the mother there.