Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do here at Tealby Primary School. Great importance is placed on identifying opportunities in the taught curriculum for children to learn about safeguarding.

Our broad curriculum gives pupils opportunities to experience life in all its diversity, to acquire knowledge, understanding, and skills that significantly impact personal development, behaviour, and welfare, and equips every child with the knowledge and skills required for personal safeguarding.

Our PSHE curriculum covers all areas of Safeguarding through each of the strands at an age appropriate level. We are sensitive in our teaching and recognise that some more sensitive subjects need to be taught across seperate year groups, or at a small group or 1:1 level where a more urgent need arises.

We plan to constantly challenge children to think deeply about safeguarding matters and their own personal physical and mental wellbeing. We value pupils’ questions and give them space for their own thoughts, ideas, and concerns.

We give pupils’ opportunities across the curriculum to explore values, personal rights, responsibilities, and equal opportunities that develop moral concepts that impact positively on safeguarding, promote British values and prevent radicalisation and extremism. There are many opportunities throughout our learning in school to explore safeguarding issues.

Practical safeguarding opportunities are planned into the curriculum. For example:

• Road and rail safety (including out of school visits, bike-ability, work with police officers in the community)
• Poolside and water safety through swimming lessons
• Fire awareness (including visits from the local fire service)
• Visits to school from medical staff
• Visitors from charities such as Barnados, NSPCC, the dogs trust/IMPACT (Dog safety)
• Work around safe transition to Secondary school
• Exploitation
• Online safety quizzes and training - Junior Online Safety Officers in Y4-6
• Our visits and experiences incorporate “Stranger Danger”, being safe in the outdoors, what to do if??
• What to do if you are separated from your group (in relation to school visits)
• Safe use of technology including password security and privacy settings

We have developed an open and safe learning environment in which pupils express their views, seek help, and help others. The promotion of equality of opportunity and diversity, for pupils and staff, helps prevent any form of direct or indirect discriminatory behaviour.

Our children learn to not tolerate any prejudiced behaviour. Our behaviour policy promotes making good choices and exhibiting good learning behaviours. Class times are a time for sharing ideas, addressing concerns, and promoting important values.

Assembly time and PSHE lessons are used to promote personal safeguarding matters and explore themes. For example, we talk about anti- bullying including cyber bullying and British values including how these values are promoted in our multi–faith society. Staff and children are quick to challenge stereotypes and the use of derogatory language in lessons and around the school.

Our school reflects the diversity of pupils’ experiences and provides pupils with a comprehensive understanding of people and communities beyond their immediate experience including the role of women in society and different family groups including same-sex couples.

Throughout the curriculum, there are planned opportunities to promote all forms of equality and foster greater understanding of and respect for people of all faiths (and those with no faith), races, genders, ages, disabilities, and sexual orientations, through their words, actions and in their influence. Opportunities are created in a variety of subjects to address areas of safeguarding, for example, themes are highlighted through texts/projects in our curriculum

Time is taken at the beginning of every new school year to reaffirm school values, expectations, and rules for being part of our school team, we also ensure that Online Safety is taught too. This ensures a good start to the year, with everyone clear about their roles and responsibilities, sets the tone for the rest of the year and leads to excellent safeguarding outcomes.

A culture of safeguarding is embedded at Tealby Primary School. We pride ourselves in knowing our pupils and the needs of the individuals within our community well. As a result of pupil voice and our knowledge and experience of the challenges some of our pupil face, we recognise that they are at greater risk of:

• Mental health concerns – This is addressed through our excellent Pastoral Support Team. Within this team we have: an ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) and a Military Support Assistant who runs a lunchtime support Club. In addition our team works closely with outside agencies as appropriate, to ensure that we are able to effectively support our pupils and families. 

• Domestic Abuse – Since March 2020, we have seen a rise in the number of Operation Encompass notifications, this evidences an increasing impact of domestic abuse on the children that attend our school.

• Online safety concerns – This is addressed through our termly online safety focus, as part of our Computing Curriculum. We also actively take part in Safer Internet Day each year and respond immediately to concerns as and when they arise. In addition, parents receive regular online safety articles in the weekly newsletter which provides guidance and advice on current issues. These can also be found on our Safeguarding page in Weekly Updates.

• Parental Conflict/ Family challenges/Welfare concerns which often manifest in attendance concerns - This is monitored through our excellent pastoral care and support, including a meet and greet and bespoke support for families, as appropriate. We are quick to act and engage with children and parents when concerns around attendance arise, the majority of these families are open to Early Help Support.

In addition to ensuring our robust safeguarding procedures, displays around the school and training are of the highest standard and support the school to ensure that staff remain vigilant and have the opinion that ‘it could happen here’, we also recognise the need to safeguard our pupils through the education and the curriculum within school.

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