School Safety

Safety and Security Procedures

PS 166 has Safety and Security measures put into place to protect all students, faculty, and staff. Safety and Security is the utmost of importance to our school community.

All visitors (a parent is a visitor) are subject to the safety and security procedures of PS 166, as set forth by the NYC Department of Education and NYPD:

  • All visitors must show a valid license or school ID and sign in at the Security Desk.
  • All Visitors will be given a printed label by the Safety Agent if they do not have their PS 166 School ID to wear on the lanyard. The printed label must be returned when they leave.
  • The Security Agent will call Room 209 to let them know about any visitor entering the building.
  • All visitors must proceed directly to the main office on the second floor (Room 209) to sign in with a valid license or school ID. This is used for safety and security within the school.
  • Arrival doors are unlocked with a staff member present at the location from 8:00AM until 8:20AM for Arrival.
  • At 8:20AM, the Arrival doors and gates will be locked.
  • All visitors or PS 166 Families that are coming late to school must buzz at the main doors and wait for the Security Agent to let them in.
  • The doors will remain locked during school and after school hours. Doors will remain locked after school.
  • Parents/Guardians that are picking a child up early from school, must do so before 2PM.

Failure to comply with the above safety and security procedures will result in the visitor being escorted off school premises by School Safety.

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Additional Safety and Security Procedures

A. Bringing an items to your child: If you are bringing an item to your child and school has already started, please follow the same procedure as a visitor.  Parents will need to sign it at the Security Desk and the Main Office (2nd floor) with a valid ID or school ID.  The item can be left at the Main Office labeled with the students name and classroom.

 

B. Your child needs medicine during the school day: Parents follow the same procedure as a visitor.  Parents will need to sign it at the Security Desk and the Main Office (2nd floor) with a valid ID or school ID. The parent will be escorted to the Nurse on the first floor.

 

C. Recess in the School Yard: There are to be no photos taken of the children in the school yard from inside the school yard or outside the gate. In addition, there should be nothing passed between the gates to the children.

 

D. Afterschool Hours: PS 166 Front Main Doors will also be locked throughout the hours after school. If someone needs to enter into the building, they can ring the buzzer and the Security Agent will open the door. Any visitors coming into the school building must follow the sign in with valid ID or school ID at the Security Desk and the Main Office (second floor). Anyone picking up from Amazing Athletes will sign out at the Amazing Athletes table in the Lobby.

 

Emergency Procedures

 

Every school currently has procedures for emergencies. Drills are conducted throughout the year to prepare our staff and students, and make improvements in emergency planning. Under the new General Response Protocol (GRP), every school will be conducting drills designed to help prepare all school communities for three different types of response to emergencies that may occur: evacuation, shelter-in, and lockdown.
 
 
Training has begun in many schools and will continue for staff and students throughout the school year. This training is designed to be age appropriate and to ensure that students understand the importance of these drills without causing unnecessary alarm. Please review the General Response Protocols that have been given to all students, and discuss these procedures with your child.
 
 
You are encouraged to take advantage of the many resources that are available to keep families informed if there is an emergency at a school. All families are reminded to update the Emergency Contact Cards that are on file in our school. This includes providing information indicating phone numbers, and the names of adults to whom the school may release your child in an emergency. Families are also encouraged to register with Notify NYC (open external link) to receive information about emergency events, and call 311 for additional information about a school during an emergency.
 
Soft Lockdown - (Look - Lights - Lock - Line of Sight)
Cover door windows, stop teaching, hide in a place in your room with your students where you are out of line of sight.
 
Hard Lockdown - (Look - Lights - Lock - Line of Sight)
Cover door windows, stop teaching, hide in a place in your room with your students where you are out of line sight.
HIDE - RUN - FIGHT is only recommended when you cannot hide. Fight should only be when the intruder has broken into your classroom/space and you are able to fight.  A LOCKDOWN is a LOCKDOWN for a teacher, Soft or Hard!
 
Shelter-in -   The threat is outside the building.
ALL exit doors are locked and secured.  NO ONE may enter or exit the building.  It is business as usual in the building during a Shelter-In. The bells ring, students may use the pass, teachers keep teaching, and students move period to period.  Teachers and students may not leave the building if they are done for the day and the building is still in a shelter-in.
 
Lock & Hold -  Incident or condition inside the building where the BRT needs to stabilize the building.  
Bells will be turned OFF or the announcement will made to “disregard the bells until the Lock & Hold has been lifted”.  CONTINUE teaching your lesson with students sitting at their desk.  Students will remain in place with you until the Lock & Hold is lifted.  Teachers will lock their doors and keep children in their rooms.  Do not issue the pass!
 
Evacuation -  When the Fire Alarms ring, evacuate to your outdoor staging area.  Use the stairwells and exits that are listed on the evacuation poster in your classroom.  Bring your Assembly Card with you and RE-TAKE attendance to ensure that you can account for all your students and hold up the appropriate assembly card signal.