Emergency Procedures

• Building Evacuation Procedures

Building Evacuation Procedures

I. General Emergency Evacuation Procedures including fire, earthquake, bomb or explosions

• Teachers will evacuate the students from the building to a designated area.
• For an earthquake, teachers will direct students to ‘drop and cover’ and wait until the shaking has stopped. Then evacuate the students immediately.
• The classroom emergency backpack will be accompany the class upon evacuation
  
• Teachers and students will assemble with their buddy class (a buddy class is an assigned class in which two classes are grouped together and can be supervised by one or more teachers).
  
• The teacher will take attendance and establish the class’s status: 1) GREEN CARD – All clear/everyone accounted for, 2) YELLOW CARD – Non-life threatening injury present, 3) RED CARD – Missing students, life threatening.
  
• At least one teacher will remain with their buddy class at all times.
  
• The building can be re-entered once the building has been declared safe by the principal, principal designee, or other school district official.
  
• One long bell or air horn will signal it safe to re-enter the building.
  
• Teachers with disabled student(s) will confer with the building administrator to arrange for additional assistance if necessary.
  
• Students will remain with school personnel until safe to re-enter the building or are picked up by an authorized adult.
  

II. Extended Emergency Evacuation

The administration and staff will follow the Emergency Response Procedures:

1. The administration and staff will establish a command post.
2. The reception/reunion area located near the portable classrooms located at the south end of the building.
3. Adults arriving to pick-up a child should report to the reception/reunion area only. Adults will be required to show identification and complete a Student Release Request Form.
4. The reception/reunion supervisor will verify the information and then send a ‘runner’ to pick up the child from their classroom teacher. Parents must stay in the reception/reunion area until their child is released to them.
5. The classroom teacher will verify the information before releasing the child.
6. The play shed would be used for temporary shelter and a medical area for CPR/first aid treatment.
7. Students will be dismissed at the end of the school day unless otherwise directed by the Superintendent to send children home earlier, or if conditions warrant that students remain under supervision beyond the end of the school day. If the latter is the case, the students will remain at school until they are released to the parents or an authorized adult.

III. Evacuation Plan during lunch, recess, before school, after school or during a school assembly

1. Lunch: Students will evacuate the multipurpose room using the two exterior exit doors under adult supervision. Students will be lead to the designated meeting area for their classroom during all other evacuation situations. Classroom teachers will be responsible to join students at these designated areas and immediately take roll.
2. Recess: Students will immediately move to the designated meeting area for their classroom. Classroom teachers will join students at these designated areas and immediately take roll.
3. Before School: Students will immediately move to the designated meeting area for their classroom. Classroom teachers will join students at these designated areas and immediately take roll.
4. After School: Students will immediately move to the designated meeting area for their classroom. Classroom teachers will join students at these designated areas and immediately take roll.
5. School Assembly: All students will be directed to exit through one of the four exit doors from the gymnasium. Teacher and students will go directly to their designated evacuation area.

IV. Power Outage

• In the event of a power outage, teachers will remain with their students until a decision is made for the remainder of the school day. Students will not be released unaccompanied from classrooms to run errands or to use the bathrooms. The school day will continue as normally as possible. If a decision is made to send children home, the Emergency Closure Procedures will be followed.

V. Emergency Closure Procedures during the school day

In the event it becomes necessary to send children home early from school, the following Emergency Closure Procedures will be followed:

• The local television/radio stations will be notified .
• Specific dismissal times will be announced based on anticipated bus arrival times. .
• The normal learning environment will continue until dismissal of students is announced
• The parent pick-up area will be set up in the front entrance hallway.
• Students will be dismissed by route numbers once the individual buses arrive.
• Refer to the emergency closure information located in the Parent/Student Handbook, posted on this website; fces@svsd410.org, or district web page.

VI. Intruder/Lockdown Procedures

• All Visitors/Volunteers will sign-in at the office and wear a identifying ‘Visitor’ or ‘Volunteer’ badge during school hours.
• In the event of an intruder on campus, the office will announce the following statement over the intercom: ‘A stranger is on campus or in the building. This is a lockdown situation’. This will be followed with a description and approximate location of the individual(s).
• The office staff will call 911 immediately.
• The office staff will contact the Superintendent notifying him of the current situation.
• Classroom teachers will direct students to move away from direct line of the classroom windows or interior door windows. Internal and external doors to the classroom will be locked. Exterior classroom window shades will be closed, and classroom door windows will be covered.
• Designated staff will be responsible to lock internal and external doors to the building.
• The ‘lockdown’ will remain in effect until law enforcement officers verify it is safe to resume school.
• In the event that the school needs to dismiss students, the ‘Early Closure Procedures’ will be in effect, and the media will be notified.
• During a lock down situation, parents must not attempt to enter the building until the area has been secured by local law enforcement officers .
• Once the lock down has been removed, parents waiting to pick-up their child(ren) will be directed to the school office where the children will be called from the classroom and escorted to the office by a school employee.

VI. Bus Transportation

In the event buses are unable to transport children home because of road closures, flooding, etc. the following procedures will be followed:

• As soon as the school office has been notified, parents will be called either by the school secretaries or other school personnel. Children in some cases may be allowed to call parents to notify them of the situation.
• Students will not be dismissed from school until parents/guardians or other authorized adults come to pick them up from the school office or other designated waiting area.
• Every effort will be made to contact parents or other listed emergency contacts.