Safeguarding Curriculum
Safeguarding Curriculum
Safeguarding in the Curriculum, Pupil safeguarding and the promotion of Citizenship, including fundamental British Values, are of primary importance at Kewstoke Primary School. The school is fully aware of the need to support children across a range of safeguarding matters, as well as support issues specifically related to the local context. Our curriculum gives pupils opportunities: to experience life in all its diversity; to acquire knowledge; understanding and skills that significantly impact on personal development, behaviour and welfare. Opportunities have been identified where children will be taught about safeguarding matters within the discrete subject curriculum, and within the wider whole school opportunities to support their personal development e.g. assemblies.
Our PHSE curriculum covers all areas of Safeguarding through each of the strands (within the SCARF scheme of work) to a varying degree. We are sensitive in our teaching and recognise that some subjects are more sensitive subjects than others are and need to be taught at an age appropriate level or within a small group or 1:1 level where a more urgent need arises.
Our wider whole school opportunities include our assembly programme, various enrichment weeks/days and the application of whole school culture and expectations e.g. behaviour policy enacted in each classroom. We plan to regularly 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 them opportunities across the curriculum to explore values, personal rights, responsibilities and equal opportunities that develop children’s moral behaviour that impact positively on the safeguarding for all children. We have developed an open and safe learning environment in which pupils express their views, seek help and help others. The promotion of equality, diversity, and the inclusion 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. Opportunities are taken by Class teachers to share ideas, addressing concerns and promoting important values, more often through PHSE lessons. Time is taken within weekly assemblies to reaffirm school values and expectations for learning. Assembly times and School council meetings are used to promote personal safeguarding matters and explore themes. Staff and children are quick to challenge stereotypes and the use of derogatory language in lessons and around 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, disability 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 story choices within the school’s reading spine.