Safeguarding Across the Curriculum

Our curriculum is flexible, relevant and engages with our pupils.  Safeguarding issues will be addressed through our PSHE curriculum, for example: self-esteem, emotional literacy, assertiveness, Sex and Relationships Education, how to keep themselves healthy (mentally and physically), ways of keeping safe in different environments including road safety and online safety (formally known as e-safety) and bullying (including cyber bullying).

Teachers also capitalise on opportunities in all subjects to consolidate children’s understanding of how to stay safe, how to protect themselves from harm and how to take responsibility for their own and others’ safety.  Teachers use real-life scenarios and fictional stories to teach, discuss and re-inforce key messages and capitalise on opportunities within our curriculum to support children, to learn about ways to keep themselves and others safe.  

Teachers plan meaningful opportunities within the context of the curriculum to teach children: