Woodlands Safeguarding Team
OUR PUPIL VOICE GROUPS ARE PART OF THE TEAM AT WOODLANDS. WE REALLY VALUE WHAT THE CHILDREN HAVE TO SAY AND INCLUDE THEM IN DECISION MAKING ACROSS THE SCHOOL.
We meet regularly to discuss ways to keep our children safe, both in and out of school. At Woodlands we strive to give our pupils a voice and the opportunity to engage in an array of different issues, current affairs and topics. As a school, we have a statutory duty to teach children about keeping themselves and others safe. This includes ensuring children are taught about staying safe online, about bullying including cyber bullying, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, exploitation and gender based violence.
The primary focus for Woodlands’ Safeguarding Team is to develop knowledge of how to safeguard themselves and others, in order to increase the number of children who feel safe in school and outside within their local community. The safeguarding team addresses a wide range of issues facing the young people within our school and local community, including: poverty, abuse, addiction-including gaming, homelessness, mental health and child and criminal exploitation.
Our Safeguarding Team, work in partnership with Telford and Wrekin’s Safeguarding Children’s Board in order to teach pupils in much greater depth, about how to stay safe, how to protect themselves from harm and how to take responsibility for their own and others’ safety. Their work has included:
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Delivering whole school assemblies, including NSPCC PANTS assembly
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Working with local authors to support positive emotional health and wellbeing.
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Working with local councillors to achieve the ‘building bridges award’ aimed at encouraging families to become more involved in the local community.
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Worked with Telford Crisis Support to raise awareness of child poverty and equality
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Addressing issues surrounding the impact of excessive gaming on mental health and wellbeing and producing an information leaflet for pupils and families.
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considering the impact and educating the school community about child-on-child abuse, again producing an information leaflet for pupils and families.
Delivering whole school assemblies, including NSPCC PANTS assembly
Working with local authors to support positive emotional health and wellbeing.
Worked with Telford Crisis Support to raise awareness of child poverty and equality.
Working with local councillors to achieve the ‘building bridges award’ aimed at encouraging families to become more involved in the local community.
Addressing issues surrounding on-line safety and child-on-child abuse and producing a leaflet for parents and KS2 children.
child on child leaflet 2024.pdf
Who are the WST?
We are delighted to introduce you to the members of our Woodlands' Safeguarding Team. These children work very closely with Miss Smallwood, helping school staff to teach children how to keep themselves and others safe, in school, at home, when they are around in the community and when they are online.
What are the roles and responsibilities of Woodlands' Safeguarding Team?
A good member:
- Listens carefully – Always ready to hear what children have to say and takes them seriously.
- Knows how to help – Understands what to do if someone is feeling unsafe or worried.
- Works well with others – Shares ideas and helps the team keep everyone safe.
- Keeps things private – Only tells a trusted adult when someone needs help.
- Notices when something’s wrong – Spots when someone might be upset or in trouble.
- Easy to talk to – Kind, friendly, and makes children feel comfortable.
- A great role model – Proud of our school’s value
Responsibilities:
- To support all Woodlands’ children to feel safe within school.
- To ensure all children in school know who they can talk to about their worries.
- To teach Woodlands’ children about risks and how to keep safe from harm within school and the local community.
- To be approachable, kind and friendly.
- To take their role seriously, model Woodlands’ school rules respectably and help others to make good choices.
- Identifying safe and potentially unsafe areas in school.
What Actions will the WST take this year?
(Targets to be agreed at the beginning of the academic year 😊)
