SOUTHWICK – Two weeks into the 2017-18 school year, Southwick-Tolland-Granville School District administrators are making sure that this year’s students and staff in all three schools are well trained on school safety.
The Massachusetts State Police, Huntington Police, and Southwick Police and Fire, emergency personnel helped all three district schools properly learn all of the safety drills, which included fire, shelter-in-place, lockdown, and bus evacuation.
Superintendent Jen Willard. (Photo courtesy of Greg Fitzpatrick)
According to the first responders, the drill was highly successful and one of the best ones that the school district had to date.
District Superintendent Jennifer Willard was very pleased to know that the drills resulted in a positive outcome as it is important to keep the students and staff safe.
“My number one concern and number one priority is the safety of all the students in the district,” said Willard. “I want us to be prepared and I want our children and our staff to know that we have procedures in place to keep them safe.”
Although Willard didn’t want to disclose the district’s exact plan for future safety drills, she did say that more of them will be occurring in the schools this year in attempt to take safety precautions to the next level.
For any questions or thoughts on the safety drills, contact the school district office at 569-5391.
