Dear Teachers,
Hope you had a good start of the school year!
In this week’s newsletter, we would like to inform you an incident that happened during last Sunday’s school time. This incident brought up a high level of safety alert to us and we want to make sure that all teachers are aware that safety is the top priority of our school operation.
During last Sunday’s first class period, a six year old student was left behind in the bathroom during the bathroom break time. The student could not find the way back to the classroom and subsequently got lost in the building. Finally he was found crying on 2nd floor by a parent on duty and brought to the library. Meanwhile, the classroom teacher and TA had never noticed the missing of the student, even though the student’s backpack and books were left in the classroom all the time. The incident caused the rage of the parent and our attention to the safety practice in the school.
As you all know, safety is our school’s biggest liability and we do not tolerate any unsafe practice at NCLS. This incident is surely a lesson for the classroom teacher and TA. We hope it bring all teachers’ attention to the safety matters, therefore we can avoid any such incident happen in the future.
To ensure we have a safe learning environment, we want to remind all teachers to do the following:
1. Starting this coming Sunday, all teachers should take rosters(点名)based on the updated student list in the system. If you have trouble print out the student list, please let us know, we will print out for you. Teacher should know how many students in his/her class and get to know the student faces.
2. If the teacher or TA takes children to bathroom or give students a break, please make sure that ALL students return to the classroom afterwards.
3. If you have any safety concerns or noticed any issues, please inform our school admin immediately. We need to resolve those issues as quickly as possible.
In this weeks newsletter to parents, we also remind the parents that they need to inform the teacher if the student would be absent from the class. We want to make sure that they are in safe hands if they are not in NCLS classroom.
We also will email all TAs regarding the safety issue. TAs should take active role in bathroom break and class release.
Lastly, this Sunday, please have a talk with your students regarding bathroom use. We have received a complaint from Day school that the bathroom use by NCLS was unacceptable. In both men and women bathrooms, the toilet paper and paper towel were thrown in wrong places, urine was on the floor. All of these made the cleaning job very difficult and also created an unhealthy environment for our students. Please let all students know that we should treat the Day school property with respect. We should show our NCLS spirit of kind and consideration.
Last reminder that we will have a fire drill at 2:30pm this Sunday. Note that the designated gathering place is behind the building: http://newtonchineseschool.org/evacation.php
See you all this Sunday.
Guangsong and Ling