I will meet with Whetu Bennett from WREMO Wellington Region Emergency Management Office to discuss our Emergency procedures and to ensure our school is doing all we can before an event happens. It is always reassuring to share our school emergency procedures with Whetu and hear him say how well we are prepared. Our documents are well written and everyone in our school knows them. In every class there are posters, in each block, there are wheelie bins ready for us to grab with medical and other needs in them. In every class, there are supplies in case we had to shut down our school. Please ensure you have brought your Civil Defence kit back to school and hand to the class teacher, if it isn’t here already. To ensure we always know what we need to do in an emergency our school does termly drills. We have a fire drill - a long bell will sound and we move our classes in a calm manner out onto the school field and the teacher takes a clipboard with them and takes the roll. We have an evacuation board that as each class comes out and the roll is completed, teachers show that their class is all accounted for. We have an earthquake drill where a series of short bells will sound- in class everyone DROPS -COVERS AND HOLDS The class waits for the long bell for evacuation and once more we go to the field. Same procedure with the evacuation board. The lockdown is a series of long, long, long, long bells, and class teachers lock doors, pull blinds or curtains, turn off lights and get down out of sight. Teachers text the office when this is all done when the office has heard from everyone that they are safe - we wait until the safety concern has passed. The drills are so important and we do talk to our tamariki about WHY we do this and that if you are always prepared you are informed and can do the right thing.