Its never to late to learn a new skill...

The new skill I have learnt is how to assist in the evacuation of 400 people from a school after a threatening phone call has been received!

At 8.30am on Monday our receptionist took a phone call making a non specific threat to the school. The SMT got together and had to decide what to do. We decide that we had no choice but to take it seriously and so we called the police and set the admin staff on the task of ringing parents to come and collect their offspring. Thankfully, all the staff and students took the whole thing in their stride and remained completely calm. The police arrived and checked over the school and nothing was found. They suspect that it was a crank call, but are investigating.

During all of this we became aware that the story had made the television news, however, the story they were telling was, that a bomb had gone off at the B.O.S. !! Aren’t the media wonderful! The media’s ability for creative writing was shown again Tuesday morning when the Karachi Times came out. There were about 12 column inches of which about 11.5 inches were incorrect!! In fact the got the name of our staff right and nothing else!

It was a bit worrying at the time and I was grateful when we had finally cleared everyone without incident, but it doesn’t make me want to leave. Yes it’s a new experience for me but there are many schools in the UK that have suffered the same thing.

The up side was that I got an unexpected half day of school so I could continue my Boston Legal marathon. So as they say, every cloud has a silver lining…