∙ The school has implemented extensive safety measures to ensure the protection of students, including logging all entry and exits, maintaining detailed attendance records, issuing ID cards, limiting visitor access, installing CCTV cameras, appointing safety officers, conducting emergency drills, and providing safety training to staff.
∙ Specific procedures are in place for bus transportation to monitor students, including keeping records of students on each route, requiring gate passes for any changes to a student's regular transportation, and mandating parent presence at bus stops.
∙ Parents are asked to strictly follow safety procedures like producing ID cards for students being dropped off or picked up, only using assigned bus routes, and not making any transportation changes directly with bus
∙ The school has implemented extensive safety measures to ensure the protection of students, including logging all entry and exits, maintaining detailed attendance records, issuing ID cards, limiting visitor access, installing CCTV cameras, appointing safety officers, conducting emergency drills, and providing safety training to staff.
∙ Specific procedures are in place for bus transportation to monitor students, including keeping records of students on each route, requiring gate passes for any changes to a student's regular transportation, and mandating parent presence at bus stops.
∙ Parents are asked to strictly follow safety procedures like producing ID cards for students being dropped off or picked up, only using assigned bus routes, and not making any transportation changes directly with bus
∙ The school has implemented extensive safety measures to ensure the protection of students, including logging all entry and exits, maintaining detailed attendance records, issuing ID cards, limiting visitor access, installing CCTV cameras, appointing safety officers, conducting emergency drills, and providing safety training to staff.
∙ Specific procedures are in place for bus transportation to monitor students, including keeping records of students on each route, requiring gate passes for any changes to a student's regular transportation, and mandating parent presence at bus stops.
∙ Parents are asked to strictly follow safety procedures like producing ID cards for students being dropped off or picked up, only using assigned bus routes, and not making any transportation changes directly with bus
As you all know we at SSRVM give utmost importance to
safety in our school and have been diligently working towards it.
Thank you for all your support and trust reposed in us.
Please find below several measures that the school has
implemented to ensure that the children are safe in the protecting hands of each one of the staff members of the school.
Safety Measures At SSRVM, Bangalore East
Entry/exit of all persons in the school are logged
clearly with their in and out times specified, so that at any point, there is a clear record of both insiders and outsiders present on the premises.
A record of all staff reporting for duty are maintained-
electronic swiping and by signing the attendance register, recording both in and out times. All contract staff sign their in and out times as well.
Daily attendance of students are recorded through the
class teachers at the beginning of each day.
A separate register is maintained for visitors or
parents, including the name of the visitor, address, telephone no., purpose and person being met, in and out time, signature.
Visitor pass is given, and signed by the person who
has been met; it is handed back at the gate on exit and tallied every two hours to ensure that all visitors have left the premises. A specific check at the end of the day is made.
Every person on the premises have a valid identity
card or a visitor pass.
School perimeter is secured to control access to the
premises:
There is only one entry/exit point to the premises;
open during the school working hours and it is guarded by 2security personnels for all 24 hrs.
Walls around the school are high enough to prevent
any scaling , meeting the prescribed guidelines. Access to areas like bus area, sports rooms/fields, canteen, toilets are confined to persons whose presence in the area is required only.
Parents or other visitors have no free access across
premises during school hours, and if their entry is necessitated they are accompanied by a staff member and with a visitors id issued so that their access is limited and monitored. Likewise, students too have no free access to wander around premises during school timings
Specifically for bus drivers and conductors, access
area is limited to just the bus area, and specific instructions are given to them on which areas are out of bounds for them.
CCTV: The school has adequate CCTV coverage.
Cameras cover all critical areas of the premises such
as entry and exit points of the school ,all corridors, library, infirmary, auditorium ,canteen, sports room, labs ,all classrooms ,entrance to toilets ,sports fields, stage area, library, activity rooms etc
Vigilance Officers are appointed in each floor
with the specific purpose of maintaining an overall vigil over safety of children in the school and ensuring that dangers and risks to children are minimized.
Health and Wellness Officer/Counsellor is
working as a full time staff to ensure emotional safety of the children.
Nurses- School has appointed two full time
nurses for handling any medical emergencies in the school.
Canteen Officer: The school has a designated
Canteen officer who will ensure basic hygiene and cleanliness of any food or liquid items served, as well as of the premises, counters, utensils, crockery etc. The responsibility also includes fixing of healthy menu for the students, collecting feedback from the stakeholders etc
Safety Officer: The school has a designated
Safety Officer whose specific responsibility is to ensure that there is minimum risk to child safety on account of physical hazards such as risks related to electricity, gas, fire, chemicals etc
Transport/Bus-in-charge: ensures smooth
operation of transport for safe travel of children through school buses, first aid availability, tracking of bus system, lady attenders, CCTV .
Safety plan: A safety plan is in place for handling
emergencies.
Disabled- friendly access: Children with special
needs are facilitated with wheelchairs, adequate ramps, railings at appropriate points, separate toilets, lift facility etc .
Periodic Mock Evacuation Drills: There is a basic
process and system in place for evacuation and dealing with such calamities, conducting periodic drills with adequate, well-labelled emergency exits .
Recruitment of staff: The employees complete
employment record is checked with specific reference checks against each employment on the resum.
All school staff are issued with photo identity
cards.
Biodata with personal details of all staff,
permanent or contractual are maintained as part of school records.
All staff have undergone fire safety and
emergency evacuation mock drills conducted by fire department.
Basic first aid session has been conducted for
the staff.
Major committees functioning in the school:
Grievance Committee, Sexual Harassment Committee, Sanitation Committee, Disaster Management Committee, parent- teacher- student committee to ensure safety etc.
Coordinators are on rounds to ensure safety of
children.
Awareness programmes / trainings, Life skill
classes etc are a part of the school curriculum.
One helper is deputed in each washroom/toilet
throughout the school working hours and 2 helpers in each floor.
There is a staff deputed to observe when any
external resource person is with students.
Class rooms / activity rooms / vacant rooms are
kept locked when not in use.
Head count of students are taken at the
beginning of each period every day.
Children reaching school by bus have a safe
passage from the bus to the school premises.
Children of lower classes are accompanied to
the class and to the bus boarding point in a group by a designated representative.
Every bus has one female attender present on the
route.
Attendance of all children on that route are taken
in the bus at the start of the journey.
In case a child who usually travels by bus is being
picked up by the parent for some reason, it is done only after due procedure of request for special departure from parent to the Class teacher, and a specific gate pass signed by the authorized person is required to be given at the gate when the parent leaves with the child.
School buses comply with Supreme Court Order
(Nimit Kumar guidelines) -the Surakshit School Vahan policy
There are separate toilets for girls and boys, for
teachers, and for support staff.
Sessions on Good Touch and Bad Touch are
conducted for girl students from Pre-primary sections to Grade 12.This is conducted once in each term.
Staff, helpers at school, bus drivers and
attenders have been given an orientation and a detailed manual has been released for entire staff to abide.
Awareness is created among all sections of
personnel associated with the school about the risks involved with regard to child safety and simple preventive measures that can be taken to reduce these risks.
The Health and Wellness Officer along with
teachers plans session for children of different ages, giving them age-appropriate inputs about simple concepts, covering bullying, internet bullying, internet predators, other forms of victimization, physical abuse but especially sexual abuse, apart from sessions on growing up, avoiding teenage vices, etc.
A basic sense of road safety are being taught to
children in the classroom.
Teachers are clearly made to understand which
disciplinary techniques are permissible and which are not.
Corporal punishment such as beating, seclusion,
restraint, violence and humiliation of any kind are completely eliminated from the disciplinary actions of school.
Suggestion boxes are placed in front of each
class room of class 6 and above, inorder to help the children to intimate the school management any incident/concerns of any kind keeping confidentiality.
The school also abides by all the rules and
requirements issued by the Government / Education Department regarding safety measures mentioned by them.
We need your constant support by following the below
mentioned points strictly.
Parents/guardians shall be present in the bus stops
while their ward(s) board/alight the school bus and produce the ID cards without fail. Students are permitted to travel only in the bus routes they have been allotted and no change requests will be entertained in the assigned pick-up and drop points, unless there is a change of residence and such a change is communicated in writing to the School Authority (To be submitted in the office and one week time span to revert if the changes can be accommodated). Oral communication regarding any change in pick-up or drop points to the bus drivers/attenders is strictly not allowed. Parents of students who commute to school on their own shall carry ID cards with them which are issued by the school and produce the same every day at the security check, failing which the security will not permit such parents to pick their ward (s). Parents must ensure that their ward(s) are handed over to the school staff/security personnel at the gate only after 8.10 am and picked back at the gate. Parents picking their ward(s) before the scheduled school departure time must make an entry in the register at the office and sign in the same. Parents/visitors are not permitted inside the school campus beyond the office area during school working hours. Parents have to make their own arrangement to pick up their ward if required. No students will be sent in the school bus in the noon trip. We request all parents to extend their support in implementing the safety measures.