Safeguarding Blog

Who are the Safeguarding Team? For our first safeguarding weekly theme of this Academic year, we have been talking to children about who the safeguarding team are. We will be reminding children that all adults are here to help and keep them safe and the safeguarding team help all adults

Online Safety This week we talked to children about being good digital citizens. Each year group had a focus area (outlined below) which they focused their discussions on. Y1/Y2 – Utilise proper online etiquette Y3 – Respectfully voicing your opinion Y4 – Respect others’ point of view on the

Keeping Safe in the Summer Holidays In our daily reviews and Friday’s PSHE sessions this week, we talked to children about keeping safe in the summer holidays. We shared ideas and then wrote them in our class floorbook based on the following questions: Do you have any worries about

Childline This week, we talked to children about Childline – what it is and how it can be used. We showed children around the ChildLine website and shared the following information: For more information about ChildLine, please following the link below: https://www.childline.org.uk/about/about-childline/

Child on child harm This week, we talked to children about child on child harm - what it is, how we manage it and what children can do if they see it happening. We shared the following information: What it child on child harm? Child on child harm is when a child or group of children deliberately/intentionally harm/hurt another child or group of children. This can be physically, emotionally, verbally and in person or online. (If bullying is mentioned, it is important that child understand that bullying is when a child on child incident happens repeatedly – a child/group of children are targeted again and again). How do we manage child on child harm at BPA? Use our approach to managing child on child harm to discuss this (see image below) What can children do if they see child on child harm happening? Encourage children to share ideas of what they should do if they saw a child on child incident, even if they aren’t involved. This is linked to anti-bullying alliance’s strategy to encourage ‘bystanders’ to become ‘upstanders’. For more information on this, please follow the link below: https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/all-about-bullying/whole-school-and-setting-approach/peer-support-strategies-0

Attendance and Punctuality This week we talked to children about attendance and punctuality. In daily reviews and Friday’s PSHE session, children explored the following two questions and wrote their ideas in their class floorbook: What is the impact of being late and/or missing school? What can you do to

Evacuation Drill This week we talked to children about our evacuation drill – what it is and why it is important to practise evacuating our building. We shared the following information with children in Monday’s assembly and our daily review sessions: There may be a time where we need

Speak out. Stay Safe This week we have been reminding children about their rights to a safe childhood: We remind children about the following different ways that they can get help when they need it: Speak to one of your 5 safe adults Speak to a member of

Online Safety As you will know, we always spend the last week of term talking to children about keeping safe online, ahead of the half term holiday where children are likely to be spending increased time on the internet. For this week’s theme, we looked specifically at one of

Keeping Safe in the Sun As the weather is getting warmer, it is important to talk to children about how to keep safe in the sun and so we discussed how to do this, this week. In daily reviews and Friday’s PSHE lesson, children spent time talking about the