Safeguarding in sport
Sport is a terrific way for young people to develop their physical skills, team work and confidence. Thousands of people give up their time to coach and encourage youngsters, but occasionally incidents of grooming and abuse occur. Ensuring that children in sport are as safe as possible is much more rigorous than ever before.
Following last week’s disclosures by Andy Woodward, Steve Walters and Paul Stewart about the abuse they suffered as young footballers, the importance of effective policies and procedures has been brought into sharp focus. We have to remember that the abuse of children by adults they trust can occur in any context.
The NSPCC have dedicated resources for safeguarding children in sport.
Below is a Moortown Primary news story from 01 October on this subject:
It’s important that you check that any sports club or activity that your child attends has your child’s safety as its priority. Even if the club seems professional, there are four key questions that you should ask to make sure that they have all the necessary safeguarding measures in place:
1. Can I see your safeguarding policy?
A good organisation or club should have up-to-date safeguarding procedures in place and be happy to show you copies.2. Who is your Welfare Officer?
The club should have a designated Welfare Officer who is responsible for dealing with any safeguarding concerns that may arise.3. Do you follow safer recruitment procedures?
Every organisation providing sporting activities to young people must ensure they have the correct recruitment processes in place which includes interviews, references and have undertaken the appropriate police checks for their volunteers and staff.4. How do you promote the welfare of children and young people?
The club should be able to demonstrate how they actively promote safeguarding. This includes listening and responding to the views of children and young people.
Don’t be afraid to question. A good and professional organisation will already have procedures in place and will welcome the chance to demonstrate that they are providing a safe environment for your child. Download this leaflet for further guidance on safeguarding in sports.
STEM week
The children enjoyed taking part in different STEM activities throughout the week.
Phonics mornings
Thank you for attending our Maths Mornings last week.
We hope you enjoyed them and found them useful.
Don’t forget this week’s Phonics Mornings.
Packed lunches
Struggling for ideas for a healthy packed lunch?
Change4life have some great tips and easy to prepare ideas based on the Eatwell Guide.
Also make reference to our Packed Lunch Guidance.
25 November 2016
The spellings for this week are below:
Food Science
Lucy from Marks and Spencer’s came in and taught us about the science that goes into their famous melt-in-the-middle puddings. We learnt about emulsifiers and the role these play in the pudding. I think our favourite part was the taste test. What a great job that would be!
STEM Project
The following pictures sum up our project. After finding out how elastic band cars work, we designed and planned our own. The children had to make decisions about the size of the wheels, type of elastic band and the style of the frame. Each group planned something different which was good to see!
We began making the frame and then added the mounts for the axles. When we tested out the axles, we discovered a problem – can your child tell you what it was? So we found some different axles to use and carefully measured, marked and sawed these. After some gluing of the wheels, the cars were ready for their power source – the elastic band. Can your child explain to you how the elastic band makes the car work?
We were so excited to test the cars! Unfortunately, they didn’t work as well as we had hoped. There were many things wrong including wheel-spinning, glue stopping the wheels from spinning, axles which were too short, wheels falling off…
However, Year 3 were resilient and resourceful and managed to fix all these problems themselves and improved the performance of the car! I was so proud of how well they worked together to solve these problems.
When they were finally ready, we had a competition and the winning team’s car went over one and a half metres!
Well done, Year 3!
25 November 2016
So far this year, we have learnt to spell words with the following prefixes:
un – negative meaning
mis – negative meaning
dis – negative meaning
re -meaning again or back
The spellings for this week contain the following prefixes:
auto – meaning self or own
anti – meaning against
sub – meaning under
autograph
autobiography
automatic
submarine
subway
subtitle
submerge
anticlockwise
antibiotic
25 November 2016
Next we’ll, we’ll be focussing on word endings in …tious and …cious. Here are some words which end in these sounds. Work out the root word for each of them and think about how this can help you to decide whether the spelling is with a ‘t’ or a ‘c’.
vicious, precious, conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious, ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious
25 November 2016
You have been assigned three Mathletics tasks.
FRACTIONS CALCULATING: Add unlike fractions, add unlike mixed numbers, subtract unlike fractions.
These activities should be completed by Wednesday 30 November but, if you require support, come and see me before this date. Don’t forget that you can use the ? button for extra support.