Safeguarding Blog

Online Safety In the last week of term, we talk to the children about how to keep safe online as they may be spending increased time online whilst they’re not in school. Safer Internet Day We reminded the children of the SMART rules: Click the QR below to

Mental Health This week, we talked to the children about how screen time can negatively impact their mental health. Screens offer connection and information, but over using – especially before bed – can disturb sleep, increase anxiety, disrupt attention and increase feelings of isolation. A healthy amount of screen

Neglect This week, we talked to the children about neglect. We asked them: What is neglect? What can you do if you are worried about it? Neglect is when you are not given the things that you need to stay safe, healthy and happy. This might mean not

Child on child harm This week, we talked to the children about child on child harm and asked them: Q: What is child on child harm? A: Child on child harm is when a child or group of children deliberately causes harm to another child or group of

  Who keeps us safe at lunchtime? Our Begbrook Lunchtime Leaders This week, we talked to the children about behaviour at lunchtime. We discussed: What unsafe choices (behaviour) can happen at lunchtime? Why is this happening? What could we do differently to stop this from happening?

Speak Out Stay Safe At the start of each term, we talk to children about their rights to being safe. We do this using NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay Safe initiative. We talk to children about their rights to being safe to: • Empower them to know that safety is

Online Safety As you know, we always speak to children about online safety in our last safeguarding weekly theme of each term. This is because in the holidays, children are likely to spend an increased amount of time online. The focus of this term’s online safety safeguarding weekly theme

Sexual Harm – Privates are Private This week, we spoke to children about NSPCC’s PANTS initiative. In daily reviews and Friday’s safeguarding weekly theme session, we used the following information to talk to children about keeping their privates private: EYFS/KS1: We used the PANTS poster to help children

Physical Harm This week, we spoke to children about physical harm – what it is and what children can do to get help if they’re worried about it. In daily reviews and Friday’s safeguarding weekly theme session, we used the following information to talk to children about physical harm:

Lockdown Alarm This week, we spoke to children about lockdown – what it is, why we need to practice and what our lockdown procedure is at BPA. In daily reviews and Friday’s session, we used the following script to talk to children: What is a ‘lockdown’? A ‘lockdown’ safety