Safeguarding Blog

Online Safety As you know, we always focus on online safety in the last week of term, ahead of children being online more during the holidays. In addition to reviewing the SMART rules for keeping safe online (see below), we used our daily reviews and Friday’s PSHE session, to

Mental Health and Wellbeing It is Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week and so, as part of this week, we talked to children about Mental Health – what it is and what we can do to promote a positive mental health and wellbeing. In our daily reviews and Friday’s PSHE

Neglect This week, we spent time talking to children about neglect, using the following script: Every child has the right to be looked after properly. If a child is not getting the important things they need at home, they could be being neglected. There’s a difference between things

Child on child harm This week, we continued to talk to our children about child on child harm – to help children know what we do at BPA to prevent and manage child on child harm. When monitoring child voice about child on child harm from term 2, it

Who keeps us safe at lunchtime? This week, we spent time helping our children to remember who keeps them safe at lunchtime. We do include this in our safeguarding weekly theme curriculum to support children in feeling confident in knowing who they can get help from at lunchtime, if

Speak out. Stay Safe. As we do at the start of each term, this week we have been talking to children about NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay Safe initiative. The purpose of this weekly theme is to help children know their rights – this has been really helpful to have

Online Safety In the last week of each term we always talk about online safety for our safeguarding weekly theme, this is because children are likely to spend more time online during the holidays. This week, our online safety theme across the academy was: Using the internet for good

Privates are Private! This week we talked to children about NSPCC’s PANTS initiative – whilst the video is aimed at young children, the message is important for all children and all of our children really enjoyed singing along! We used daily reviews and Friday’s safeguarding weekly theme session to

Physical Harm Across the year we have mapped out opportunities to talk to children about the four different types of harm, in an age appropriate-way and using child-friendly resources. This week we have been talking to children about physical harm – what it is and what children can do

Lockdown This week we spent time talking to children about our lockdown procedure – why we have a lockdown procedure, what our lockdown alarm sounds like and what to do in the event of the lockdown alarm sounding. In daily reviews and Friday’s PSHE/safeguarding session, we share the following