to be shocked that a primary school fence is only 4 foot high??

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Playground is directly to the front of the school, car park to the left and the entire gate is a metal 4 foot high fence.
Isn't this extremely low?
The road is a quiet residential road but at the end of that small lane is a 50mph fast road.
Entirely put off the whole school based on that ( as well as pretty shit ofsted report ) AIBU?

In fact, there is a way to go round the back and there is no gate or fence so the kids could escape. None do though, as they are having too much fun at break.

I can vividly recall police chasing a man through our play ground at infants school. Have no idea why. They caught him and marched him out with a policeman on each side and took him away. I'd rather a high fence.

My ds goes to the same school that i went to ar his age. The fence is the same fence. Its about 4 foot.

There have been no incidents of children climbing the fence to get out or people climbing it to get in. If i saw a 8 ft fence around a school i would think twice about sending my child there.

DD's school had about a 2-3ft fence and in the 7 years she attended there no weirdos came in and no one escaped.

School on a triangular plot of land here. No fence/hedge/barrier on one and a half sides which are open to roads. On the other half there is a hedge (backs onto houses) and on the third side is a 6ft wire fence as it is the boundary of the football pitch and gardens of the houses below.

Never had an escape during lesson time.

A local new build school which is adjacent to a main A road , but accessed from a lane, doesn't have a high perimeter fence.

Anyone else finds its sad we fence schools like prisons. Yes i can understand the infants part but juniors.

Nope. I have a child who needs a secure site. It's one of the reasons why mainstream secondary school isn't going to be suitable for him, but I like that he's safe and secure at the local primary - that makes me quite hapy, in fact. We have to keep doors and windows locked and keys out of his sight at home, too, as he likes to take himself for walks, has no road sense whatsoever and is unable to speak to people if he gets lost. He is extremely vulnerable.

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OP I think you've got yourself in a total flap about your child's school application and need to focus on the important things, not the height of the fencing.

Our infants and juniors are on the same site. The infants has an internal fence which is only 3-4 feet high. The junior site is not totally fenced. It has never occurred to me to give it a second thought.

I agree, the ofsted is pretty poor too so worrying about a variety of things I guess

TreadSoftly
We had a stream running through my village primary school. It separated the playground from the playing fields, and in the summer, we used to take our shoes off and paddle in it
The boys also used to turn stones over to find leeches, and chase us with them

Our school has a fence about 5-6 foot high. The gate has a high up bolt. One child ran off the premises last year. They scaled the fence!

It isn't a very safe playground as the school sits in the middle of it so you have to walk through the playground to reach the main entrance, so all visitors walk across the playground, even when kids in it.

It isn't ideal, but there has never been a problem that would be sorted by a different entrance etc.

Having said that, as part of new building work, they are going to install a buzz in gate.