Personal Recount-Day3

The fire drill is always taken seriously throughout every school in Singapore. It is an essential rehearsal in case of any emergency, which concerns life and death. We experienced a fire drill on Thursday. I found that there were lots of effort put in by the staff of Victoria School for this exercise, and their effort did pay off. The whole fire drill was carried out smoothly and in a much organised manner.

Victorians were down at the field very quickly after the announcement of the place of the fire, and nobody was rushing and pushing. I found that it was a very big improvement from the fire drill held last year. Last year, the whole fire drill took almost an hour as the students did not take the drill seriously. This year, however, it was a totally different matter. The students took this exercise seriously and it was over in around fifteen minutes.

I was having Literature when the fire bell rang. It was such a coincidence as Mr Daniel Tan was about to make Nicholas perform a stanza in a poem and he was about to perform when the fire bell rang. He was overjoyed and relieved then! We made our way calmly towards the field after the announcement on where the fire was.

In all, I found this recent fire drill was a very successful and organised one, especially when compared to the fire drill last year.