Safeguarding and Wellbeing Committee

Safeguarding and Wellbeing Committee

Here at Vernon Primary School a group of our Year 5 and Year 6 children are part of our Safeguarding and Wellbeing Committee. This group meet regularly to discuss safeguarding and wellbeing at our school. The children regularly support their peers in school, this includes supporting children on the playground and also discussing topics in assemblies, plus involvement with other events. 

 

2024-2025

Anti Bullying Week 2024

Across the school children were involved in activities focusing on Anti Bullying, this started with "Odd Socks Day" . Children came to school wearing a variety of colourful and wonderful socks to demonstrate we are all different and the importance of celebrating this. 

Autumn Term 2024 Welcome to our team!!

Our new team have made a fantastic start to the school year. They have been involved in planning some assemblies and are keen to share safeguarding information with the school. 

 

Anti Bullying Week 2023 

Our team were involved alongside our supportive PCSO's in delivering a fantastic assembly to our school pupils. This was a great sucess and feedback was fantastic . We also marked Odd Socks Day to celebrate all of our pupils being unique. 

 

Poynton High School Event 6th October 2023 and 13th February 2024

Some of our team were invited to Poynton High school to attend a meeting along with representatives from other local primary schools, Poynton high school pupils and the local council. They were asked to give their views on safeguarding and emotional wellbeing in schools and also views on the local environment. The team did us proud. 

The follow up meeting was then held on the 13th February 2024 at the Civic Hall in Poynton. The children came together again to discuss further safeguarding topics, and on this occasion they got to meet the Mayor. 

 

Previous great work 

2022-2023

The team over this year have done themselves and the school proud, with all of their hardwork and enthusiasm.

The team have achieved a great deal during a short period and this has had a postive impact on our whole school community. 

Some of the highlights of the year include: 

• Safeguarding Children in Educational Settings Team Audit November 2022 - This was a fantastic experience for our team, they were involved in showing our guest around the school and talking about our school and the safeguarding and wellbeing practices we have in place. The feedback from our visitor was brilliant about our practices within the school but also about how knowledgable our team was, they did us proud. 
• Assemblies - The team have worked well this year to make sure our pupils have knowledge of key safeguarding areas. One way they did this was through involvement in assemblies. This year the team did updates for children around online safety and anti-bullying. 
• Site Safety Walks - Our team were involved in a full safeguarding walk around the school. This was completed alongside Mrs Currall the Business Manager and Mr Christoforu our Site Manager. The children looked at all safety measures in place, the feedback they gave was very positive with them feeling our school was "very safe". 
• Posters - The children have also worked hard on highlighting key messages across the school. They did this by making posters and leaflets to either be displayed or to be shared with our children. One focus was on safeguarding posters for the children, looking at key people who can support in school. 

So thanks team for all you acheived, next year's team have big shoes to fill!!