St. Bartholomew’s C of E Primary School St. Bartholomew’s C of E Primary School

Pupil Parliament

September 2024

Pupil Parliament have spent a lot of time collating and analyzing ideas and opinions of all the children in their class. They asked questions around feeling safe in school and the behaviour of children in school.

You can read the findings of the children in their reports:

The question we asked: What is behaviour like at St Bart’s?

What everybody said:

Most children in school agree that our behaviour is mostly fantastic. 

Pupil Parliament found that children show excellent behaviour 

  • In class.
  • Around school.
  • In the playground.
  • In the new library.
  • In the dinner hall.
  • When representing school.

Findings from our survey, suggested that on occasional instances, there are times when ‘some children don’t follow our rules’. 

We use Trackit to celebrate our great behaviours, and very occasionally this is used to provide warnings or later sanctions. Consequences could include contact with parents/carers or losing some free time. 

Some comments on our survey said that teachers will try and help by having conversations with us, sometimes this may be in private. 

If negative behaviour continues, we understand that children may have to go on a report card. 

Action taken:

  • Trackit points are given resulting in prizes at the end of each term and a final one at the end of the year.
  • Head teachers awards are given out weekly for good work and improved behaviour.
  • We have also introduced an attribute award to encourage different attributes each term.
  • Develop a memorable set of school rules for everyone to remember.

 

The question we asked: Is there anywhere in school you feel unsafe?

Positives:

St Bartholomew’s Primary School is a very safe place for everybody. 

Pupil Parliament know that children feel safe in lots of places, including:

  • In classrooms
  • Dinner corridor
  • Generally in the playground
  • In our library
  • When on school trips
  • Walking around school
  • In PE lessons
  • In DT lessons, even if we are using equipment needing adult supervision, eg. Saws hammers etc.

We are taught about safety in our PSHE curriculum, and cover topics such as:

  • Road safety
  • Water safety
  • Rail safety
  • Sun safety
  • Online safety
  • Staying safe on bikes
  • Staying safe in our community
  • RSE

We have ask it baskets, worry monsters and ground rules in PSHE lessons to help us feel safe 

We also practise a variety of emergency actions, which help keep us safe. There include:

  • Lockdown practise. We recently had to do one of these, which could have been scary but was dealt with well. 
  • Fire alarm 

Areas to explore:

The only areas we found, where children feel slightly less safe are:

  • In the MUGA and other areas of the playground, there are sometimes injuries from the amount of footballs being used at once. 
  • Cloakrooms – lots of children in at once make these smaller spaces quite busy. 
  • Toilets – sometimes there are too many children in at once. 

Action taken:

  • We have now dedicated the train playground to people playing a variety of ball sports e.g. football, basketball and rugby. This means other areas are clear of balls. 
  • Y3 and Y4 have a referee in the MUGA, and only one ball is used. We have found this is now much calmer. 
  • Y5 and Y6 have a referee in the MUGA, and only one ball is used. They also have a timetable for different class/year groups to use. 
  • We now have toilet passes for using the toilets during lessons, which means there are very few children out of class at once. 
  • Cloakrooms are more closely monitored by adults. 

Safeguarding