Emergencies

Sickness or Injury

In the event of sickness or injury at school, we will need to make contact with parents/carers.  Please make sure we have an up-to-date address and contact number so that we can reach you in an emergency. 

Changes of current address and home, work or mobile telephone numbers should always be promptly notified to the school office.

School Closure

Local radio stations, such as Radio Berkshire will relay information of school closures in the case of emergencies e.g. heavy snowfall, heating failure etc. Information will also be placed on the school’s website www.oaklandsjunior-school.org.uk and WEDUC will be used to inform parents/carers by text/e-mail.  In the event of technological failure we will do our best to put a notice at the school gates in Butler Road and Ellis Road.

Broadmoor Procedures

WOKINGHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL – NOTICE TO PARENTS/CARERS OF PUPILS ATTENDING MAINTAINED PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND SPECIAL SCHOOLSIN BERKSHIRE WHO LIVE IN THE VICINITY OF BROADMOOR HOSPITAL

1. If there is an escape, the school has signed up to the Thames Valley Alert (TVA)
   system. The sirens previously used by Broadmoor will be decommissioned. We will
   receive a phone message directly from the police in the event of an emergency. The
   TVA website is https://www.thamesvalleyalert.co.uk
2. Schools will stay open and operate as normally as possible.
3. Parents/carers who know of an escape before their children leave home for school
   will be expected to make arrangements for escort.
4. Where an escape occurs before the lunch break, pupils will be kept at school at
   midday unless collected by their parents/carers and will be provided with a meal to
   the extent which the emergency arrangements allow. Parents/carers will be asked in
   due course to pay the appropriate charge for the meal provided. If parents/carers
   decide to collect their children at midday they must be responsible for their safe return
   to school in the afternoon.
5. If the emergency extends to the end of afternoon school, no child attending an infant,
   junior or primary school will be allowed to leave the safety of the school premises
   unless collected by a parent/carer or responsible adult known personally to the staff,
   or in exceptional circumstances, a responsible adult known personally to the child.
   Headteachers of secondary schools have discretion to allow pupils to go home
   unaccompanied where the authority for this has been received from parents/carers in
   writing.
6. On subsequent days, parents/carers will be solely responsible for the safe conduct of
   children to and from school, or to and from pick-up and setting-down points for school
   transport.
7. Parents/carers should discuss with headteachers any special difficulties, which are
   likely to arise in individual cases.
8. If an escape takes place, parents/carers are asked to keep telephone calls to the
   school to an absolute minimum.