Well-being
Online safety hub
Northern Education Trust has partnered with Smoothwall to create a free online safety hub for parents and carers to help keep their children safe online. Smoothwall is a system used by the trust to monitor the content our students access and digitally safeguard against any dangers or risks.
The Online Safety Hub offers an abundance of expert advice and guidance to help parents and carers manage their child’s safety online. It also includes information on several topics when it comes to keeping children safe, such as how to manage your child’s screen time, understand the latest gaming platforms and what they mean for your child’s safety.
Useful websites
Prevent – Report online material promoting terrorism or extremism.
https://www.gov.uk/report-terrorism
Take It Down – A free service that can help young people remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of them when they were under 18 years old.
https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/
Report Remove – Created to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.
https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/professionals/guidance/report-remove3/
Inclusive Digital Safety Hub – So you got naked online (SEND version), a guide for children and young people. This resource helps and advises young people who may find themselves in a situation where they (or a friend) have put a sexting image or video online and have lost control over that content and who it’s being shared with.
https://www.internetmatters.org/inclusive-digital-safety/so-you-got-naked-online-guide-for-young-people/
Student Voice
Student voice is a key cog in the decision making process in every NET academy. Each academy has a Junior Leadership team that runs a very active academy council with nominated Junior Leaders and Class Secretaries who represent each class. School council meet on a fortnightly basis to discuss current issues effecting academy; the Junior Leadership team vote on any action that needs to be taken. Students learn how a democratic system works from an early age and they develop skills in public speaking, decision making and listening to one another’s ideas. Students are empowered by the process and are valued as key stakeholders in every NET academy.
Praise culture
All Northern Education Trust academies have an incredibly strong praise culture that is evident as soon as you walk through the door with ‘applause moments’ to be heard, displays dedicated to praise and the way teachers and students interact with one another.
Other rewards include:
- Positive affirmation of effort and achievement in a ‘STEPs to Success’ report shared with parents at various intervals during the year
- Staff verbally congratulating/ praising children
- Extra privileges
- Being given positions of responsibility such as head boy/girl, leading on the school council or being an ambassador for the academy.
- Postcards home from the staff to recognise outstanding effort and/or application
- Applause moments – children are encouraged to applaud any noteworthy response from their peers in all lessons
- Collaborative learning and praise – teaching structures used on a daily basis encourage children working together collaboratively and their subsequent praise for each other for their contributions.
Praise is also the bedrock of our ‘Expectations for Learning Policy’, which encourages children to make positive choices through praise and rewards.
Well-being
Online safety hub
Northern Education Trust has partnered with Smoothwall to create a free online safety hub for parents and carers to help keep their children safe online. Smoothwall is a system used by the trust to monitor the content our students access and digitally safeguard against any dangers or risks.
The Online Safety Hub offers an abundance of expert advice and guidance to help parents and carers manage their child’s safety online. It also includes information on several topics when it comes to keeping children safe, such as how to manage your child’s screen time, understand the latest gaming platforms and what they mean for your child’s safety.
Useful websites
Prevent – Report online material promoting terrorism or extremism.
https://www.gov.uk/report-terrorism
Take It Down – A free service that can help young people remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of them when they were under 18 years old.
https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/
Report Remove – Created to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.
https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/professionals/guidance/report-remove3/
Inclusive Digital Safety Hub – So you got naked online (SEND version), a guide for children and young people. This resource helps and advises young people who may find themselves in a situation where they (or a friend) have put a sexting image or video online and have lost control over that content and who it’s being shared with.
https://www.internetmatters.org/inclusive-digital-safety/so-you-got-naked-online-guide-for-young-people/
Student Voice
Student voice is a key cog in the decision making process in every NET academy. Each academy has a Junior Leadership team that runs a very active academy council with nominated Junior Leaders and Class Secretaries who represent each class. School council meet on a fortnightly basis to discuss current issues effecting academy; the Junior Leadership team vote on any action that needs to be taken. Students learn how a democratic system works from an early age and they develop skills in public speaking, decision making and listening to one another’s ideas. Students are empowered by the process and are valued as key stakeholders in every NET academy.
Praise culture
All Northern Education Trust academies have an incredibly strong praise culture that is evident as soon as you walk through the door with ‘applause moments’ to be heard, displays dedicated to praise and the way teachers and students interact with one another.
Other rewards include:
- Positive affirmation of effort and achievement in a ‘STEPs to Success’ report shared with parents at various intervals during the year
- Staff verbally congratulating/ praising children
- Extra privileges
- Being given positions of responsibility such as head boy/girl, leading on the school council or being an ambassador for the academy.
- Postcards home from the staff to recognise outstanding effort and/or application
- Applause moments – children are encouraged to applaud any noteworthy response from their peers in all lessons
- Collaborative learning and praise – teaching structures used on a daily basis encourage children working together collaboratively and their subsequent praise for each other for their contributions.
Praise is also the bedrock of our ‘Expectations for Learning Policy’, which encourages children to make positive choices through praise and rewards.
Academy approaches
At Buile Hill Academy, we have a fully trained Safeguarding and Inclusion team to support all students. We have a comprehensive pastoral programme including ‘Life’ curriculum, assemblies and VMG tutor groups to try and raise awareness and educate about student wellbeing. We also have a dedicated Safeguarding and Wellbeing Officer who works in conjunction with the Designated Safeguarding Lead, other members of the team and a wide range of external agencies to ensure that we provide rapid and appropriate support where needed.
Local contacts
Useful Websites
- https://www.youngminds.org.uk/ – They have pages for both children and parents/carers. This website provides information on a range of topics, and also provides information relating to self-care and wellbeing. The parent pages provide helpful advice on how to approach difficult conversations, and how to support your child.
- https://www.annafreud.org/ – They have pages for both young people and parents/carers
- https://www.kooth.com/
- https://www.mind.org.uk/
- https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ – information and advice about eating disorders
- https://www.cruse.org.uk/ – Bereavement support
- https://www.theproudtrust.org/ – LGBT+
- https://lgbt.foundation/how-we-can-help-you – LGBT+
- https://www.qwell.io/ – For parent/carer mental health support
- https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/ – Change4Life, healthy eating advice for families
- https://www.papyrus-uk.org/
- https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
Helpful Apps
- Think Ninja
- Headspace
- Calm
- Couch to 5K
- PanicShield
- Calm Harm
Top tips to look after your mental health (Mind, 2022, https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/for-children-and-young-people/looking-after-your-wellbeing/):
- Do something creative
- Learn something new
- Be active
- Eat a balanced diet
- Try to get enough sleep
- Help other people
- Do things that you enjoy
- Connect with other people
- Do things that help you to relax
- Ask for help if you need it
Northern Education Trust takes safeguarding very seriously. Our academies ensure that safeguarding is a key priority in all aspects of academy life, and that safeguarding is a key part of our curriculum content. We see safeguarding as being the responsibility of all members of our academy communities.
Please click the following link to view the latest ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance from the Department for Education.
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024
‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ is also available in other languages here: https://national.lgfl.net/digisafe/kcsietranslate
Northern Education Trust is not responsible for content on any external websites linked to from this site.
Northern Education Trust takes safeguarding very seriously. Our academies ensure that safeguarding is a key priority in all aspects of academy life, and that safeguarding is a key part of our curriculum content. We see safeguarding as being the responsibility of all members of our academy communities.
Please click the following link to view the latest ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance from the Department for Education.
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024
‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ is also available in other languages here: https://national.lgfl.net/digisafe/kcsietranslate
Northern Education Trust is not responsible for content on any external websites linked to from this site.