Newsletter for Parents
Parents Information Letter – Easter 2007
Important Changes to School Office/Entrance Area
Dear Parent,
We have recently taken advice from Leeds City Council to ensure that our security procedures are as good as possible. It was recognised that our current procedures are working effectively but that the design of the building, particularly around the entrance area, is not as secure as more modern designs.
It is important that we make our building as safe as possible for your children and for the adults who work in it. Consequently, major changes to the entrance area will be undertaken during the Easter holidays. The changes will mean that the building is more secure, but will mean that parents will need to work with us to keep that heightened level of security intact.
The changes will mainly entail the following:
- The entrance will become a lobby area; access to the class areas will be by two electronically controlled doors. Staff will have access to these doors by means of electronic key fobs. Without a key fob there is no access to class areas via the office.
- Obviously, it will no longer be possible for parents to go to classrooms via the office and so it is essential that pupils arrive on time in the morning and report to their lines or class doors. Pupils should arrive on the playground between 8.50 and 9.00. Cloakroom doors will remain open until 9.05 to allow latecomers to enter that way. Any latecomers after classroom doors close will need to report to the office. Pupils will then have the electronic doors opened for them to make their own way to class.
- It is also essential that parents, when having left their children at 9.00am, or picked them up at 3.15pm, leave the building by the playground and not through school. If the security doors are constantly opened from the classroom side, this means that the extra security measures will not be in effect and unauthorised persons could gain access to the class areas.
- Please help us to make school as safe as possible. No building with so many people in it can be completely secure, but together we can work to make the school environment as safe as we possibly can. Thank you for your help.
Alan Scott
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