Dear Parent/ Carer,
The Parent Council and school would like to write a joint letter to you about the incident reported in the Kilmarnock Standard this week which happened in April last term.
Parent Council
The Parent Council has reviewed the incident with EAC and agree with the conclusions that the school acted promptly to locate and retrieve the children concerned. We know and are concerned that this can happen in any school. However, we are confident that we will all learn from this unfortunate incident to ensure that we limit the possibility of a re occurrence happening again.
School
As a school we have worked with both families to reassure them of how seriously we viewed the matter and feel it is important to protect the anonymity of the children. As the incident has been reported in the press it is important that you know the relevant information has been given to parents concerned. At our last Parent Council meeting we reported this Health and Safety incident occurring during a lunchtime and described the actions that have been taken by the local authority and school working together. We have consulted with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Health and Safety team. Already there have been improvements to gates and a new gate has been purchased. As you are probably aware staff have been monitoring the gates until the new one is fitted. As a school we have ensured our pupil Health and Safety team have been working with adults and the steps they have introduced include safety circles and safety lines. Staff speak to the children regularly about the importance of staying within the school grounds for their own safety and about road safety near to the school.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Parent Council and the wider school community for their support and for the work you all do at home to reinforce this important message. The school and Parent Council continue to work in partnership and have a meeting planned for next week.
If you have any concerns we can discuss them at our weekly Wednesday morning drop in. I would also like to invite all of our parents and carers to attend a safety talk at the school on Wednesday 30th May. We had already scheduled an Online Safety Workshop from 3.15pm to 4.15pm and I can answer any questions you may have about security within the school and our playgrounds at this event.
Yours sincerely,
Scott Thomson (Chair of Parent Council)
Alison Wright (Head teacher)
