Safeguarding Curriculum

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.

“Be Safe” is the most important of our cultural values and safeguarding our children, families and staff is at the heart of everything we do at Grays Farm. Every opportunity is made to find opportunities across all subjects of the curriculum for children to learn about keeping themselves and others safe in all sorts of differing contexts.

Values

We have worked hard to develop 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 against all marginalised groups. 

We use every opportunity in and out of the classroom to enforce Gray’s Farm’s anti bullying policy in order to ensure that children are happy to come to school and learn in a supportive, caring and safe environment.

We carefully consider our school core values, the children’s values and what makes us good citizens, including British values. We learn about trust, resolving conflict and related aspects of making and maintaining friendships.

Wellbeing and emotional regulation

A consistent thread through all of Gray’s Farm’s personal social and emotional curriculum is personal wellbeing, this includes learning about the Zones of Regulation.

RSE

The essential aim of Relationship and Sex Education should be to provide pupils with the knowledge and skills to enable them to make informed and

responsible choices now and in later life, emphasising the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Our Relationship and Sex Education policy can be found here.

Practical safeguarding topics 

Topics covered in class, in assemblies and incorporated into our termly wellbeing days include:

• Road safety 
• Rail safety
• Poolside and water safety (swimming lessons)
• Fire safety
• Healthy eating
• Hygiene 
• Emergency services and their purpose
• E-safety - more information is available via our Safer Schools app
• Managing potentially unsafe situations with adults such as ‘Clever never goes’ and ‘Stranger Danger’
• The NSPCC Pants rule

….and many more!