In response to a parent query received last week, please find the general process outlined in our School Procedures, should we ever have an emergency and need to evacuate from the school site.

All decisions will be centralised in the event of an emergency and be under the overall control of the Emergency Response Manager. 

The Emergency Response Manager will be located in the Lower/Upper School area and the Deputy Manager in the Office / Kindergarten area, (as this may become the Communication Centre).

Usually this would be Karyn and Grant respectively but these roles can change on the day depending on who is onsite.

There is a Student Release Team formed in any emergency evacuation. The students release team will:

- where possible send a text out using the school system

- where possible send an email out and the school website and Facebook page updated with     information

- establish a collection point where Parents / Caregivers will wait. This would more than likely be the school Office (at the entrance to the school).

The students will be released to parents and caregivers names on the Emergency Response contacts listed in our Student Management System. 

This is for everyone’s safety, both in terms of negotiating potential hazards and managing people in a disaster situation.