Telephone Tree
Thanks to everyone involved, it worked! Text messages were sent out at 10:45 with follow up phone calls starting 10 minutes later for those who had not replied. We had to go to a secondary phone number only once, and one parent was hard to contact because she was having a facial, but in the end all parents were contacted within an hour. More than half the parents had replied or been contacted within 20 minutes. In an emergency situation when we really had to contact parents it would be quicker because we’d have more people manning the phones.
Note that in a real situation, if you yourself cannot pick up your child and you arrange for another parent or driver to do so, you must let us know. We will not allow children to leave the school with strangers.
Our next emergency drill will be for building evacuation. The kids need to know where to go for a roll call.
Derek Pugh 21/10/08
