Dangerous person in school?

[WhinnieThePoohHead]

I’ll preface this by saying I know it’s not a AIBU, I just want to use the voting option :)

Met Friends for dinner today. One friend, a teacher, mentioned that her school does ‘lockdown drills’ as well as fire drills. I asked what they’re for and she said in case someone dangerous gets into the primary school. They lock the classroom door, shut the blinds, turn the lights and screens off and hide under their desks silently. My friend told me that all schools do these drills the same way they do fire drills. this is in the U.K.

YABU- yes all schools do this, you’re out of touch
YANBU- schools in the U.K. don’t do lock down drills

Every primary school I have worked in has done this, we used to tell the KS1 kids that it's in case a naughty animal gets in the building. I work in a behavioural unit now for KS3/4, we don't have one but we always laugh with the kids saying god help anyone that broke in here trying to hurt us 🤣. We do sometimes radio to lockdown around the school if a child is in crisis though. Lockdown means something very specific in schools and has done for years now.

Thats not how it works, you have clearly never experienced an ofsted, they justtake samples of what is going on in and around a school, and extrapolate - they dont look at everything, they dont even look at 5% of everything

No I haven't tbh as I live in Scotland where during an inspection they would check records of mandatory procedures - which a lockdown drill isn't. The 'proof' you posted that it is in England certainly doesn't say that either. It just talks about security procedures not specifically lockdown drills

Thats not how it works, you have clearly never experienced an ofsted, they justtake samples of what is going on in and around a school, and extrapolate - they dont look at everything, they dont even look at 5% of everything

I’ve experienced several Ofsted inspections. The fire and lockdown drill records have always been requested, along with many other things. Definitely a lot more than 5% of everything. We’re an outstanding school. A previous school I was at to RI partly because the new head didn’t think such record keeping was relevant…….

It does say that! read it - this is the DofE noting that all these settings need to have a detailed procedure in place for such instances, and that all children and staff need to know them... then the document goes on to give guidance on how to fulfill this need.
It doesnt call them lockdown, but htat is what it is talking about

DS primary does this. It’s called Dangerous dog drill but other animals are in fact the real culprits. Same as other rural posters have already said - cow in the playground is not an unheard of occurrence!