Althorpe & Keadby Primary School

Safeguarding at Althorpe and Keadby Primary School

Safeguarding runs through everything we do at Althorpe and Keadby Primary school.

As a school Althorpe and Keadby Primary School is fully committed to  the safeguarding of our pupils in line with ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025' - ensuring the well being of the children is paramount. For pupils to feel that they are able to do their best and achieve their true potential, it is important that they feel safe and supported in our school environment.

Everyone working within our school, whatever their role, is acutely aware that issues to do with the protection of children are of the highest possible importance. They are regularly trained on a clear scedule of training outlined and delivered by local authority partners and our designated safeguarding leads (Mrs Sorbie, Mrs White and Mrs Welch) 

Staff Training

Staff are constantly undergoing training depending on their roles and expertise.

In this school you will find staff who have accessed the following safeguarding training in the last year;  

• Keeping children safe in education 2025 updates 
• Child protection and safeguarding training - spotting the signs of abuse
• Online safety training 
• Safer recruitment training 
• Blue door domestic violence awareness training 
• Operation encompass training 
• Mental health and suicide prevention training 
• Child on child sexual abuse training 
• Risks outside the home training 
• Early Help Training
• Prevent agenda training 
• Prevent 2 training 
• Martyn's law - protecting establishments from terrorism training  

Pupil Curriculum - A curriculum for Safeguarding

In relation to safeguarding, Althorpe and Keadby Primary School aims to ‘prevent’, ‘protect’ and ‘support’ all its pupils by addressing child protection in the curriculum, pastoral activities and in the management of the school, and by empowering and enabling staff to be vigilant for vulnerable students through regular, on-going training and the dissemination of information. We also involve our pupils in regular assemblies with visiting agencies and workshops which will enable them to stay safe online, in school and at home.

Our Safeguarding curriculum is vast and where possible we involve other partners. We design this specifically for the children of our school based on the risks they face as they grow older. In the last academic year children have accessed learning on all manner of topics including; 

• RSE and healthy relationships lessons supported by Big Talk Education 
• Weekly PHSE lessons supported by Jigsaw Education scheme of work 
• EYFS pupils have met important helpers in our area including the fire fighters, police, lolly pop lady and local shopkeepers 
• KS2 have accessed Water safety sessions from the local authority 
• Our PCSOs have met Key Stage 2 around safe online use and the risks of social media 
• Northern rail have delivered learning on safety around railways 
• Canal trust have delivered learning on safety around canals 
• SSE have delivered learning on safely living around the Power Station and pylons 
• Our PCSOs have visited Lower Key Stage 2 to make them aware of road safety including the risk in our village from speeding cars 
• Bikeability have trained all or Year 5 and 6 pupils to travel safely on their bikes in the local area - 100% pass rate at level 1 and 2 for the first time
• The school pay for additional swimming lessons after school to ensure our children have the skills to live in a village surrounded by water. 100% of our students passed at Year 6 this year. A first ever! 

Government guidance on Keeping Children safe in Education can be found here: 

https://www.gov.uk/2government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--

Please click on the link below to read the school's safeguarding policy