What You Can Expect CCPS to Do……

• All visitors must report to the office.
• Students are released only to authorized persons, with written authorization.
• Your children will be instructed regularly in emergency procedures for earthquake and other disasters, and will have regularly scheduled opportunities to practice such maneuvers as “Duck, Cover, & Hold”, building evacuation and campus lock-down drills.

What You Can Do as Parents….

• Make certain that your children’s school emergency card is accurately and completely filled out and returned to the school.  Call the school office promptly to correct any obsolete information.
• Communication will be vital in any type of emergency.  We recommend that you have the school’s phone number next to your home phone and programmed on your cell phone.
• If your child needs regular medication at school, assure there is always a 3 day supply maintained at all times.
• Discuss with your children the emergency training they have received at school, give your support by stressing its importance, and encourage them to cooperate with school staff members, both in practice drills and in the event of a real emergency.
• Formulate your own home emergency plans and teach your children what they should do as part of it.

Earthquake or Structural Failure

• Students will be instructed to drop, cover and hold until it is safe to evacuate.
• Possible Site Evacuation Locations- Church building or parking lot.

Please allow emergency personnel full access to the emergency by remaining clear of the school.
Please allow evacuations to proceed in a timely manner.

Emergency Lockdown Procedure

If an emergency situation occurring in the vicinity of the school threatens student safety, the school may be placed under “lockdown”. 

• During a lockdown, all school doors and windows are locked and all students and staff remain in their classrooms. 
• No one is permitted to leave and no one, including parents, is allowed on campus.
• If deemed necessary, students will be moved to a safer location within the building without windows (bathrooms and hallways).
• Should a lockdown occur, parents are asked to remain calm as school and local authorities manage the situation.  
• If it appears the lockdown will last an extended period of time, or go beyond dismissal time, school staff will attempt to notify parents by phone, as students will not be allowed to leave until recommended by the appropriate authorities.
• Parents may be required to pick children up from school or another designated safe area, such as the church.  To further ensure student safety, parents may be required to present identification.  

Because we know that the safest place for your children in an emergency during the school day is on the school campus, children will be kept in the safest location on the school grounds until they can be reunited with their families.  In case of a major earthquake or other disaster, students may be evacuated from their classrooms.  Depending on the magnitude of the incident, the school may be closed until further notice.  Students will evacuate to the designated parking lot and wait to be released to a parent or authorized designee.

Your cooperation is necessary during a disaster.

• DO NOT CALL THE SCHOOL.  Telephone lines may be needed for emergency communication.
• Parents and designees MAY NOT pick up children until all students and staff are accounted for and the director approves the release of students.  NO EXCEPTIONS.  DO NOT LEAVE UNTIL YOU HAVE SIGNED YOUR CHILD OUT WITH HIS/HER TEACHER.
• Help us protect our child during a disaster, please be patient with the student release procedure.

Reunification (student release) Procedures

When safe to do so, please enter through the Hilleary Pl. entrance.  In the event that the children are evacuated to the parking lot, please park at Wal-Mart and walk over to the school.

• After signing your child out please exit through the Community Rd. exit.
• Students WILL NOT be released to an individual not listed on their emergency card.  NO EXCEPTIONS.
• Bring a picture ID with you.

In the event of an emergency, it is natural for parents to want to be reunited with their children immediately.  The first priority to school and emergency staff, on the other hand, will be to secure the area, protect the children and tend to the injured.  For a response effort to be successful, it is vital that parents not interfere.  Your patience and cooperation during such a difficult time can save children’s lives.

• Please keep your cars away from the school so that emergency vehicles can have immediate and clear access to the school.
• Please keep clear of the school until reunification procedures begin.
• Please allow evacuations to proceed without interference.
• Please understand and follow reunification procedures.  
• Please maintain calm and show respect to school and emergency personnel.

Please keep your child home if:

• They have had a fever of 100 or higher in the past 24 hours
• They have vomited in the past 24 hours 
• They have a congested cough or colored nasal discharge 
• They have colored discharge from the eyes or eyes are red and swollen 
• They are unusually tired, irritable or do not seem themselves.

• Stay with their children until they have been checked in.
• Children may not be released to any person who is not on the child's emergency form. 
• All first aid will be administered by or under the supervision of the teacher or the teacher's assistant.
• Visitors to the school are required to check in at the office upon arrival. 
• When enter or departing from the school, please close all gates. 
• We are a peanut-free zone.