At Leigh Academy Peninsula East, our intent is to provide a curriculum that ensures every pupil, regardless of need or background, acquires the knowledge and skills to successfully transition to their secondary setting as a well-informed, globally aware young person. This includes ensuring that all our pupils know how to keep themselves, and others, safe at all times in order to be successful.
Our teaching of safeguarding is implemented across our mapped curricula for computing, personal, social and health education and relationships and sex education, we specifically plan to teach children about online safety, healthy relationships, keeping healthy minds and bodies and what to do in an emergency situation.
PSHE & Computing Curriculum Maps
PSHE & Computing Curriculum Maps
Further to this we work with the outside agencies listed below to focus on specific areas related to our local context:
- NSPCC – Speak out stay safe and PANTS
- Kooth – Online mental health and well-being.
- Medway Family Hub app (Family Solutions)
- Kent and Medway Prevent Team
Across our school day and in all areas of the curriculum there are many more times when we are teaching the children how to keep themselves safe. Some examples of this are:
- Teaching children about the safe use of social media – including video games and Whatsapp
- Appropriate use of mobile phones – including distributing of images, group chats and cyber bullying
- Understanding the difference between fake news and factual news, including the safe use of AI
- Fire safety talks from Kent Fire and Rescue
- Kent Police Talk around contextual issues for our children and County Lines
- Bikeability to teach children how to be safe riding their bikes on the road
- Preparing pupils for school trips and how to use coaches and walking safely by busy roads.How to interact safely with strangers and what to do if they get lost
- Celebrating Black History month and learning the dangers of extremist views in society
- At home time, following safe procedures for releasing children to whoever is collecting them and reinforcing why we do this.
We know that our safeguarding culture has the impact we want it to have as our children trust our team with information that is worrying them. Our children can name, and do talk to, trusted adults across the school. Through listening to pupil voice across the school the children are able to talk about our safeguarding policy and procedures. They make use of our worry boxes to tell us when they want to talk about something and our children are part of a well-being group. They know what healthy relationships are and tell us if they are worried about a relationship inside or outside of school. Parents also report that their children feel safe at Leigh Academy Peninsula East. Our children can talk about how they will keep themselves safe and make reasoned, principled decisions when choosing how to act. This ensures that our pupils successfully transition to their secondary settings as well-informed, globally aware young people and are also prepared for their future careers.