Just interested in how secure your child's school is.
DD is 5 years old, has just started Year 1 and has Special Educational Needs, we are awaiting a formal diagnosis, but severe dyslexia is suspected, along with another cogitative problem. As a result, she finds school very bewildering and confusing.
To give you an idea, last week, she followed another child out of the classroom (which has 2 doors) out into the playground, she then became disorientated in the crowd and distressed when I wasn't there to collect her. Fortunately the Teaching Assistant saw her follow this other boy and retrieved her from the playground and bought her back to me.
My big worry is that during the day, the school gates are not locked at all and anyone can walk into the school playground. To get to reception, you have to walk through the school playground.
I am worried that someone may walk-in to the school and walk-out with DD (unlikely I know, but not impossible!) OR that someone would leave the gates open and DD or other children would leave the school grounds and wander out. There is a deep lake less than 50 metres away....
Do you think that it is reasonable to expect the school gates to be locked during the school day, with an entry phone system? I am thinking of writing to the head teacher and the governors about this.
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Minniethemoocher · 09/09/2008 09:42
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