BUILDING UPDATES & SAFETY by Mrs. Toni Wallace Keeping our school safe is always one of the highest priorities at Mater Dei High School. The School Safely Committee meets each month to discuss ways to protect the student body and campus.
This year, we continued the implementation of limiting the number of open outside doors before school. Both doors have been staffed each morning to ensure students are where they need to be, in addition to limiting access of the school to non-student body. The committee also continued to hold quarterly lockdown drills which tested our new remote and hard wired security systems. We were able to identify certain areas in the system that needed to be improved upon and have fine-tuned them to our specifications. Unfortunately, the school year was cut short due to the
BUILDING PROJECTS
• The old Bookkeeping Office/Bookstore has been turned into a new Conference Room. • The IT office has been moved to the lower level. • The former IT office has become the new teachers’ workroom. • The former teacher’s workroom has been renovated to become the teachers’ lounge. • With the advent of the BYOD policy, the former computer room in 213 has been made into a classroom. • Room 214 has become a dedicated bookstore. • The old divider wall between 214 and 215 has been moved to the east to allow Room 215 to become a large classroom. • Room 108 has now become a religion classroom to replace the vacated Room 214. • In order to prepare for the 2020/21 school year, normal stripping and waxing of floors has been taking place along with miscellaneous painting and sanitizing.
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pandemic so we did not get to practice the last quarter lockdowns. We will resume this as soon as school begins in the fall. Speaking of the pandemic, this is an area that will need to be reviewed and added to our school safety manual when we return. We try to have a written plan in place for any type of emergency that might impact our school. A new committee is currently being implemented to assist the schools with identifying the requirements needed to be in compliance with state and federal guidelines and codes concerning COVID-19. As we look towards the next school year, we will continue to look for ways to improve our school environment. The safety, health and well-being of our students, staff and families will continued to be lifted in prayer, and be of the utmost concern.
