Every year, pupils in Year 4, 5 and 6 take part in the Relationships without fear programme in school which is delivered by “Glow”.  This educates our pupils about healthy relationships, aiming to reduce the likelihood of them experiencing abuse in their current and future relationships.  This equips them with the knowledge, skills and advice to keep themselves safe and how to get appropriate help.

The programme

The six week programme is aimed at children and young people from Primary School to college.

What is involved?

• The programme is delivered by a trained member of staff.
• A range of professional resources and materials are shared including a workbook for each pupil each year.
• A full evaluation for the school at the end of the programme, which documents the impact of the programme.
• Brief intervention 1:1 session for children affected by any issues raised.  Support is also offered to school with onward referrals to other agencies if required.
• Safeguarding and disclosure support and advice is provided to staff.
• Programmes are updated annually to complete with PSHE guidelines, British Values and legislation.

We expect all pupils to participate in the programme as part of the PSHE curriculum.  However if you have any concerns about your child taking part, please contact your child’s class teacher in the first instance or a member of the B-Safe team.

For further information on the programme please follow this link:

www.findtheglow.org.uk
If you would like any further information or support around domestic abuse, please contact 0330 094 5559.

Personal, Social, Health and Education helps to give pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed active responsible citizens. Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities.

In doing so they learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning. They reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. 

They learn to understand and respect our common humanity; diversity and differences so that they can go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning. 

Whole School PSHE Overview

In the instance of a bereavement, we need to:

• Enable staff members to feel more confident when working with bereaved students in order to be able to support them more efficiently
• Provide staff with guidelines for those supporting a bereaved child or young person and help and support staff to deal with a sensitive and often difficult subject
• Provide the support necessary for bereaved children and young people and safeguard their physical, emotional and mental wellbeing of their students
• Provide a clear framework for responding to the death of a pupil or staff member in school or off-site
• Set out a plan for communicating deaths in a timely manner that balances our school community’s interests and transparency with the wishes of the family of the deceased
• Define the roles and responsibilities of key staff members and the governing board

Children will be bereaved of a parent and many more will experience the death of someone else special in their life. In addition to these individual pupils, schools may also experience the death of a child at school or a staff member. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that at some time all schools will have to deal with a death that affects the school community.

Safeguarding is the policies and practices that schools and Governing Bodies employ to keep children safe and promote their well-being. This means everything from security of the buildings, to the safe recruitment of staff and everything in between.

Child Protection is a term used to describe the activity that is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm.

Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a role to play in safeguarding children. School is particularly important as they are in a position to identify concerns early and provide help for children, to prevent concerns from escalating. Schools and their staff form part of the wider safeguarding system for children. This system is described in statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education 2019 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018. Schools and colleges work with social care, the police, health services and other services to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm.

Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff works with the Stoke-on-Trent Children’s Advice and Duty Service (ChAD).  Anyone with any concerns that a child may be at risk of immediate significant harm should report to this service on 01782 235100 between 8.30 and 6 p.m.  For contact outside of these hours, please contact the Emergency Duty Team on 01782 234234. This applies to reports from the public, council staff, partners, and outside agencies.

If a child is in immediate danger of being harmed or is home alone, call the police on 999.

For guidance and advice about keeping children safe, please click here.

Keeping children safe in education government documents can be found here.

At Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff, all pupils are taught about Online Safety from Nursery up to Year 6.  This is taught through the Purple Mash scheme of work and is complemented by resources from the National Online Safety website.

The school currently has the National Online Safety accreditation meaning that staff, parents, governors, and pupils are regularly accessing resources and training from the website.  This enables us to provide our pupils with as much information as possible to keep themselves safe online.

In school, our computers are protected by monitoring and filtering software to make sure that our pupils only access resources that are suitable for their education.  We use Net Support DNA which alerts the safeguarding team of any potential issues and the RM Safety Net filtering of websites when pupils are accessing their school-based accounts.  

If you would like to access the resources from National Online Safety then please use this link:

nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/co-op-academy-clarice-cliff

If you would like any further information about keeping your child safe on any devices then please access “Think U Know” which gives age-specific guidance:

thinkuknow.co.uk/

If you are worried about who your child may be communicating with online then please access the CEOP website for information and support:

ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/

We take any concerns about bullying very seriously, as outlined in our academy Anti-Bullying policy.

Pupils are taught about the different types of bullying throughout our PSHE curriculum, Jigsaw.  They are taught the definition of bullying and how to report any incidents of bullying.  They are also taught how to be respectful towards each other, communities and cultures.

The academy participates in the National anti-bullying week annually where pupils take part in a range of activities linked to the theme of the week.
If you have any concerns about bullying, in the first instance please speak to your child’s class teacher.  If you are still concerned, we have a strong safeguarding team in place, the B-Safe team, who are able to support with any concerns around bullying.  If you wish to contact them, please email the school office on clar-office@coopacademies.co.uk or on the school telephone number 01782 881480.

Stonewall | Children and Young People’s Services Champions programme

NSPCC | Keeping Children Safe

Schools have a duty of care to their students and staff which includes safeguarding them from the risk of being drawn into terrorism. Our overriding aim is to ensure that young people are safeguarded and that no-one is drawn towards radicalisation and terrorism. We follow the guidelines set out in the PREVENT strategy which forms part of the UK’s overall counter-terrorism strategy: CONTEST and also have our own academy policy which is based on a model produced by the Stoke on Trent Prevent Education team.

The aim of the PREVENT strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people from being drawn into terrorism, either becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. PREVENT works at the pre-criminal stage by using early intervention to encourage individuals and communities to challenge extremist and terrorist ideology and behaviour.

• Click here to read the Government’s PREVENT duty statutory guidance document.
• Click here to read the Government’s policy on counter-terrorism.

Click here to read the Government’s revised PREVENT duty Guidance for England & Wales.