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Review of Friday's Crisis
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Friday caught all  of us in Christchurch off guard. For us the situation was compounded by having no official communication from the Ministry of Education or the Police until close to 3 pm.  We were first alerted that there was an incident in Christchurch developing by one of the office ladies receiving a text from her daughter at Avonside saying they were in lockdown; at that stage we had  370 children assembled in the library, a bit restless as assembly was almost over.

We had two key decisions we had to make quite quickly and with little official information.
Did we lock down in the library or did we move the children back to their rooms?
Did we let the parents who were at school or those who arrived within the next few minutes take their children or did we insist they stay with us?

As with every emergency situation there are things that need to be reflected on and improved.
Senior staff have had the opportunity to meet and review our processes and our decisions on the day. 

We know there are areas we need to improve on: it is important  that we get parent feedback and that as a management team and as a school we work on being  ‘better than before”.
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  • Home
  • Our School
    • About Our School
    • Our New School Update
    • HEART Values & PB4L
    • Kathleen Liberty Project
    • EOTC
    • e-Learning - BYOD
    • HEARTbeat 106.7FM
    • Learning Support
    • Assessment and Reporting
    • Extra-Curricular
    • Student Council/Leadership
    • Māori Learning At Banks >
      • Kapa haka
  • Our Team
    • Principal Welcome
    • Staff
    • PTA
    • BOT >
      • Meet Our BOT
      • Becoming A Board Trustee
      • Elections 2019
      • Charter
      • Community Annual Reports
      • Policies-Schooldocs
      • Latest ERO Report
      • Board Meeting Minutes
      • Vacancies
  • Our Students
    • Team Tōtara
    • Team Kahikatea
    • Team Miro
    • PIA Challenges >
      • About
      • Bronze Award
      • Silver Award
      • Gold Award
      • Emerald Award
      • Ruby Award
  • Parent Information
    • Information A-Z
    • Latest News 2019
    • Term Dates & Calendar of Events
    • Enrolment
    • Family Zone
    • How To Get Text Updates
    • OSCAR
    • Powerzone
    • Stationery
    • Absences
    • School Uniform
    • Facts About Head Lice
  • Contacts