Student Safety and Security

Various safety measures are incorporated in the school infrastructure considering student age-group like:

• Pre-primary area is on ground floor with spill over into the play area and garden at the same level (so limited climbing)
• Soft rubberized flooring in the pre-primary play area
• Separation of play areas for pre-primary, primary and secondary classes
• CCTV Coverage of all corridors, exit points and senior classrooms
• Separate age-appropriate toilets for girls and boys on each floor
• Barbed boundary wall to prevent unauthorized access.
• Fire equipment on each floor and in basement
• Separate fire-pump room and control center with display of signage

Several safety measure are incorporated in the school operational processes such as

• Parent Card to ensure that the child is handed over / picked up by parent/ authorized person only
• Attendance SMS to parents to keep them informed about child absence in school
• Continuous CCTV monitoring of key access points and controlled entry beyond reception area.
• Regular evacuation and fire- drills to educate children of emergency response
• Regular laboratory checking of the drinking water
• Background check and police verification of non-teaching staff at the time of appointment

Transport being a critical area of the safety is independently monitored and several measures have been put in place like

• Safe bus boarding and a single vehicular traffic lane with no crossing.
• Teachers on duty to escort the younger children to the school buses and monitor the boarding. Attendance is taken at dispersal.
• School buses get certified from the RTO at the start of the session and are fitted with a speed governor to prevent speeding.
• Buses are GPRS fitted and their movements are monitored by the School Transport team. Parents can monitor the movement of their child’s bus through an app.
• The school monitors compliance to RTO guidelines by bus vendors and conducts regular awareness sessions with drivers, attendants and mausis.

For medical care, the school has

• A well equipped Infirmary with a full time lady doctor having ICU experience.
• Tie up with Aditya Birla Hospital for dealing with emergency situations.
• First Aid training session is conducted every year for the staff members and floor wise “Emergency Response Teams” are constituted.
• Two health checkup camps are organized every year. In addition workshops on child safety (POSCO) and adolescence are conducted by external experts.