Safeguarding is comprehensively and proactively embedded across the curriculum, moving beyond a single subject to form an essential, pervasive whole-school culture.
The curriculum is mapped to ensure that all students receive spiral learning on key safeguarding themes, ensuring concepts like body autonomy, consent, digital literacy, mental health awareness, and recognising unsafe situations are revisited and deepened in age-appropriate ways.
This approach explicitly uses subjects like PSHE as the core thread, while leveraging opportunities in English (empathy and moral dilemmas), Computing (online safety and digital footprints), PE (boundaries and consent), and History/RE (human rights and anti-prejudice) to reinforce core safety messages, promote resilience, develop emotional literacy, and equip students with the knowledge and confidence to seek help.
This integrated model ensures students are educated to be safe, healthy, and responsible citizens both online and offline.
PSHE
Core Thread: Personal Safety, Autonomy, Mental Health
Key Teaching Opportunities: Explicit teaching of body autonomy, consent, managing peer pressure, online relationships, mental health awareness, emotional regulation, and recognising unsafe situations and trusted adults.
English (Reading/Writing)
Core Thread: Empathy, Emotional Literacy, Moral Compass
Key Teaching Opportunities: Exploring empathy, kindness, difference, fairness, and standing up to bullying through texts and stories. Analysing characters facing unsafe/unfair situations and moral dilemmas.
Computing
Core Thread: Online Safety and Digital Citizenship
Key Teaching Opportunities: Teaching digital footprints, privacy and data protection, online safety, recognising and reporting cyberbullying, evaluating reliable sources, and password security/ethical use of technology.
Science
Core Thread: Health, Body Awareness, Boundaries
Key Teaching Opportunities: Embedding personal hygiene and body awareness, healthy lifestyles, drugs and alcohol awareness, puberty and reproduction (Years 5–6), and consent and boundaries in biological contexts.
PE
Core Thread: Respect, Boundaries, Physical Safety
Key Teaching Opportunities: Teaching respect, teamwork, fairness, and inclusion. Explicitly addressing safe physical contact, boundaries and consent in sports, and promoting injury prevention and body confidence.
RE
Core Thread: Tolerance, Justice, Anti-Extremism
Key Teaching Opportunities: Exploring respect, tolerance, diversity, moral choices, justice, and forgiveness. Reinforcing inclusion and anti-bullying messages, and recognising extremist views or intolerance.
Geography
Core Thread: Global Citizenship, Physical Safety
Key Teaching Opportunities: Exploring global citizenship and fairness (e.g., child labour), safe travel and awareness of physical risks (e.g., rivers, mountains), understanding emergency procedures, and valuing different cultures.
History
Core Thread: Prejudice, Equality, Power & Resilience
Key Teaching Opportunities: Teaching human rights, democracy and equality. Exploring prejudice, discrimination and justice, the consequences of abuse of power (linking to resilience and standing up for others), and empathy/understanding trauma.
Art & Music
Core Thread: Expression, Identity, Stereotypes
Key Teaching Opportunities: Using art and music to express feelings safely and build confidence. Exploring identity, diversity, and critically examining representation and stereotypes in media/art.
Outdoor Learning / DT
Core Thread: Risk Awareness, Practical Safety
Key Teaching Opportunities: Promoting risk awareness, safety in nature and with tools. Teaching food hygiene (safety, allergens, nutrition), and using building/teamwork for cooperation and safe problem-solving.
Early Years
Core Thread: Basic Safety and Emotional Regulation
Key Teaching Opportunities: Focus on stranger awareness, trusted adults, personal space and safe touch, sharing, kindness, emotional naming and regulation, simple online safety stories, and road safety.