Safeguarding Blog

Water Safety This week, we talked to the children about water safety: What are the risks?  What can you do to keep yourself safe? In our daily reviews, we reminded the EYFS and KS1 children: Water is amazing—we can splash, swim, and have

   Sexual Harm This week we talked to the children about staying safe from sexual harm in a way that’s age-appropriate and gentle for them. We told our EYFS children: Your body belongs to you. The parts of your body

      Safe Play This week we talked to the children about safe and not safe play at lunchtime. We have included this as part of our safeguarding weekly theme curriculum because there seems to be an increase in children ‘playing rough’ or play fighting at lunchtimes.

Evacuation Drill This week, we talked to the children about what an evacuation drill is, ahead of our annual evacuation drill. We explained to the children that there may be a time where we need to leave the school site because it is unsafe – this could be

Children’s Rights During our final week 1 of this school year, we reminded the children about Children’s Rights – and tried to remember what we’ve learnt about them this year. Here are some of the rights that they remembered: The right to be safe

Online Safety This week, we talked to the children about online safety focusing on: Content of information and others online The children remembered the SMART rules for keeping safe online We asked each year group a question: Year 1 and Year

Mental Health and Wellbeing This week, we talked to the children about mental health and wellbeing: what is it? what we can do to promote a positive mental health and wellbeing? What do we mean by mental health? Everyone has mental health. Our mental health refers to the way

Attendance and Punctuality This week, we talked to the children about the importance of attendance and punctuality. Here are some of the questions we asked them and the answers they gave us: “What does attendance mean?” “Attendance means we come to school every day

Child on Child Harm This week, we talked to the children about child on child harm – what it is, and our BPA approach to preventing and managing it. The children told us what they need to do when it happens: Talk about what happened    

Children’s Rights During our first week of the new term we talked to the children about their rights. We do this at the start of every term so that children have regular opportunity to be reminded about their rights. Children can find it hard to share their worries,