Safety Plans
All schools, including Donwood School, purposefully plan for student
safety in an around our buildings. These plans include:
- Emergency preparedness — including fire drills that are practised 10
times a year, along with dangerous intruder, school lockdown, and evacuation
drills.
- Supervision — school grounds are supervised 15 minutes before and
after school, as well as all times at recess and lunch when students are outside.
School patrols and conflict managers increase safety through peer
supports.
- Building — entrance doors are all locked once students enter for
classes during the school day, except the front/administration doors to restrict
unwanted access to our learning areas.
To help ensure the safety of our students, certain potentially
dangerous areas are out of bounds. These areas are the parking lot, the outdoor
power boxes, the front street, and the bus loop. Please assist us
in this by picking up students on Paufeld Drive rather than
Donwood Drive or the school parking lot.
Playground
Supervision
School staff supervise playground activities at these times:
Prior to entry: 8:45–9:00 a.m.
Morning recess: 10:15–10:30
a.m.
Lunchtime: 12:15–12:45 p.m.
Afternoon recess: 2:00–2:15
p.m.
After dismissal: 3:30–3:45 p.m.
Accident
Procedures
Minor injuries such as cuts, scrapes, bruises, etc., will be attended to
by school staff. For serious injuries, proper emergency/first-aid procedures will
be followed.
- Parent, guardian, or emergency contact person will be phoned
to inform them of the injury and asked to transport the child to the doctor or hospital,
if required.
- If no contact can be made, school staff will transport the
injured child to the hospital.
- If the injury is very serious or life
threatening, an ambulance will be called.
Visitors to the
School
The policy of River East Transcona School Division is
that:
- Every visitor to the school must first report to the school
office.
- Parent volunteers and guests are
asked to wear an identification card while they are in the
school.
- All volunteers must complete
a Child Abuse Registry check prior to volunteering in the school. These are
available in the school office.
- There may be times when your child needs to be picked up from school.
Please report to the office and your child will be paged. For the safety of
your child, we do not want students waiting outside
unsupervised.
- At
regular dismissal times, parents, relatives, or friends
of students are asked to wait for the children at the exits. Last-minute
instructions by teachers as they prepare to dismiss their students can be
unnecessarily complicated by the presence of other adults or
children.
Emergency School Closure
Occasionally, because of power failure, water main break, etc., the
school may have to be closed. In case of such an emergency, pupils at Donwood will
be walked to Holy Redeemer Church or Chief Peguis Middle School where they will be
accommodated until parents can arrange to pick them up or the usual dismissal
time. If pupils have to be sent home, please be sure your child knows where to
go if you are not at home.