Staff Room

Site Team are asking that teachers cast a fresh eye around their classrooms to ensure student tables and chairs are not right next to the radiators.  There has been a spate of ‘radiator’ tickets which causes concern as with enough force, the radiators can be dislodged causing instant flooding of very hot water which is both dangerous and disruptive to lessons whilst being repaired and cleaned up.

If this does happen, please immediately send a student to main reception to radio Site Team or grab a radio holder and request they radio Site Team.  Thank you.

The Academy is working to reduce single use plastic and one of the suggested ways to model this is by the use of glass water jugs and recyclable cups for staff and external meetings.

Suitable jugs with lids that fit nicely in the water fountains for refilling have been sourced and are stored in a cupboard in the Admin office.  If you would like to make use of these for your meetings please visit the Admin Team who will point you in the right direction.

Due to the works being carried out throughout the Academy staircases, during August, please use only Staircase 5 for ground to lower ground floor and the lift for all other ground to all floors access. If you are unsure, please check with SHZ or JCS.  Thank you.

Each term the Principal, DFO and Corporate Services and Brand Identity Manager meet to discuss H&S topics affecting the Academy. We met at the end of June to review this year’s H&S objectives (which can be found on the Calc here) and to consider what objectives to set for 2023/34. We are proposing that next year we focus on the following:

• To continue to improve the Academy’s H&S culture 
• To build on and increase the current communication with staff about H&S
• To commission a fire risk assessment from a third party and action its recommendations
• To embed knowledge and understanding of evacuation and lockdown procedures.

Please let SHZ or JCS know if you have any suggestions regarding these.

The H&S Working Party which includes our H&S Link Governor, the TU Representative, and the Curriculum Leaders for PE, Science and Technology, held its termly meeting to review H&S at Chelsea Academy on Friday. Together we reviewed the above objectives as well as the recent first aid reports and incidents, the latest fire drills and recent lockdown practice (guidance can be found here) and other H&S concerns. 

Please contact Jeni Cousans or Sara Hopkins with any comments or questions concerning H&S.