Alerts and Notices
To ensure multiple means of emergency communication for our schools, Wortham ISD uses our website www.worthamisd.org and
notifications that can be received by downloading our mobile app.
During emergencies, this system will send text messages, emails, and voice calls to registered recipients. The system will also post alerts or emergency information to the Wortham High School Facebook/Wortham Middle School Facebook/ and Wortham Elementary Facebook account. Alerts and Notifications are intended only for situations involving imminent danger to health or human safety. including severe weather alerts, winter weather class cancellations, hostile threats, utility failure, major road closings or fire, among others.
What Parents Should Do During A School Emergency
HELP US KEEP YOUR CHILDREN SAFE!
Review this information carefully. Following the steps provided will help school officials, police officers, firefighters, and other responders do their jobs and focus on the safety of all involved.
Keep your child’s emergency contact information up-to-date. Inform your child’s school immediately if your phone number, address, or email address changes. You may be called and emailed during an emergency. Additionally, children will only be released to adults listed on the
emergency information form.
Talk with your child about listening and following directions at all times and especially during an emergency.
Report any safety concerns you may have to your child’s school principal.
What Parents/Guardians Should Do During a School Emergency
Wait for information from the District. The latest information will be provided by phone, text, and email via the District’s messaging system. The first priority of school and district personnel is to address the emergency at hand. You will be informed as soon as the information is available. If it is an ongoing event, updates will be provided as new information is available.
Try not to call the school. Telephone lines may be needed for emergency communication.
Do not go to the school, or evacuation site, until notified to do so. During extreme emergencies, students will be released only at designated locations at the school or evacuation site. It is important that no other pickup point be utilized (e.g., do not try to go directly to your child’s classroom), as we need to be able to account for every child at all times. Please emphasize with your child the need to remain with school personnel until you arrive or somebody you authorize to pick up your child arrives.
Know that in the event of a serious emergency, students will be kept at their schools or evacuated to a prearranged alternate site. When the time comes to pick up students, only you or a responsible adult you have pre-identified (i.e., your child’s emergency contacts on file with the school) will be permitted to pick up your child.
Impress upon your child the need for them to follow directions of any school personnel in times of an emergency.
Wortham ISD current uses the following safety and security equipment and resources:
Trained and armed guardians on campuses
Security cameras
Secure vestibule, preventing unauthorized entry beyond the primary, locked, exterior door
Visitor Management system that checks in visitors against national sexual offender databases
Electronic "key cards" for access to buildings
Emergency procedures and protective actions posted in all offices and classrooms
Two-way radio communications
Monthly fire drills and other regularly scheduled safety drills
Weekly door audits
WISD has adopted the " I Love You Guys" Standard Response Protocols.
Please review the procedures and protocols below:
