that my child was "burned to death" at school

[angrymum1]

My son is in year 7 at a secondary school. He came home all upset this evening as apprently they had their half termly fire drill.
Part of this is to hide various staff and children around the school to encourage vigilance.
My son was delighted to be selected. Apart from the fact that no on found him till the lesson after the drill when someone heard him scratching at the cupboard door.

Apparently all five other hiders had been accounted for.
Is this nromal? What shall my next step be?

was he LOCKED IN the cupboard unable to get out?

I would be most concerned about that part
they obviously also need to brush up on their fire drills
I would start by asking for appointment to see the person responsible for the fire drill and ask for an explanation of the whole thing

i don't know the precise details. I don't think he wanted to hop out in case they were still looking.

I think that the school will now have to produce a written risk assessment based on the incident, and I am pretty sure that you are within your rights to ask to see a copy.

It seems bizarre that they should have gone to the trouble of setting up this scenario, which seems a useful way of making sure that the registers are being taken properly etc, and then to have not checked that all of the children were safe/accounted for.

However, a quiet word with the form teacher/Head might reassure you.

You must know if he was locked in. I really can't imagine that he was.

O M G who thought of this bizarre scheme? Alan Partridge?

I worked in a school once where a head did that to me. (Took a child out of the line on the way out without me knowing!)It really made me think. I always check the class very carefully now when we have a fire drill.

It does sound like a good way to get people to take fire drill seriously: if there ever is a fire, one of the things that is very important is accounting for all the people who were in the building (ie they shold all line up and be headcounted) so the firefighters can be told whether or not there might be anyone left inside.
But it sounds like they made a bollocks of it and need to tighten up.

I know I shouldn't but ROFL

Well he wasnt't "ROFL" as you put it. He was just O.F.

YANBU and I think words need to be had!

Yes, I agree.I may ring OFSTED too

Do they ever find kids in stock cupboards?

My son said he found a jar pickled onions in there. Teachers are so odd.

what does he was just "of" mean if ROFL means rolling on the floor lauhging?

made me snigger too - but you should talk to school about their fire dirlls as obviously not effective

How many minutes/hours was he in the cupboard? Did he not feel he could come out?

he found a jar of pickeld onions? that's too surreal for words

You still haven't confirmed that he wasn't actually locked in.

Well I think he knows the complete inventory of sugar paper. They won't need to stock take this year.

he must be a champion hide and seeker as a kid

Why would you phone Ofsted?