Greenacre is committed to ensuring the welfare and safety of all pupils in school. Everyone working in or for our school shares an objective to help keep pupils safe by contributing to providing a safe environment for children and young people to learn and develop, and identifying children and young people who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm, and taking appropriate action with the aim of making sure they are kept safe both at home and at school.
Greenacre follows Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board procedures. The school also pays full regard to the DfE statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children and Keeping Children Safe in Education.
Our Pastoral Managers are Laura Oxley & Amy Jeffries.
Pastoral Welfare Leads
The Greenacre Pastoral Team comprises of the following:
Pastoral Manager and Designated Safeguarding Lead: The Pastoral Manager secures the welfare needs of children through leadership and management of Greenacre’s Pastoral Welfare and Pastoral Care team. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team the Pastoral Manager oversees issues related to the welfare, behaviour and attendance of pupils.
Lead on the implementation of safeguarding, behaviour and attendance policies, training and procedures
Act as the school’s Designated Senior Leader for Safeguarding and Attendance
Ensure a timely, robust and appropriate response to welfare issues including behavioural difficulties, disaffection, poor attendance and medical concerns through both direct work and leadership of Pastoral Welfare Leaders and Pastoral Care Workers
Establish effective and collaborative relationships with other professionals to secure regular attendance and safeguarding of pupils through a broad range of strategies and interventions
Pastoral Welfare Leads- Pastoral Welfare Leaders work under the guidance of senior staff within an agreed system of supervision, working flexibly within the Borough and wider area in response to the needs of pupils and their families. Pastoral Welfare leads are also Designated Safeguarding leads. When pupils are regulated, Pastoral Welfare Leaders develop and deliver preventative and early intervention strategies to improve pupil behaviour, welfare and attendance. This includes working with and making appropriate referrals to specialist services and agencies.
Pastoral Care Workers– As part of a specialist team, Pastoral Care Workers play an important role in helping to create a stimulating, safe and structured environment for pupils with complex needs. Pastoral Care Workers provide an on-call service for pupils at times of crisis, proactively supporting pupils in their self-regulation to enable them to settle and learn. When pupils are regulated, Pastoral Care Workers support pupils’ long-term development through the planning and delivery of interventions, coaching conversations and therapeutic activities or by providing general support in the classroom under the guidance of a teacher.
Associate Executive Principal (PDBA)–The Associate Executive Principal (PDBA) plays a key role in determining the strategic direction and development of the Special Provision Partnership (SPP). They assist the Executive Principal in all matters relating to personal development, behaviour and attendance and ensure the SPP fulfils its statutory duties in relation to these areas. They act as the SPP’s Designated Safeguarding Lead and support the development and implementation of robust safeguarding, child protection, health and welfare policies and practices. The Associate Executive Principal is the key contact for external agencies including, for example, the NHS and the Local Authority Designated Officer. As part of the Executive Leadership Team the Associate Executive Principal leads, supports, develops and holds accountable a team of Pastoral Managers. Together, they ensure high standards of pastoral care including the wellbeing, welfare, health and general happiness of pupils.
Anti-Bullying
Staff and learners at Greenacre have worked hard to produce a portfolio of evidence to show how effectively the school is at combating bullying. There are several levels to the award, and it is expected for a school to start at the Bronze level and to use these awards as a way to improve. We were very pleased to receive the Bronze award on our first review and were thrilled by September 2018 to have secured the prestigious Platinum Award. Greenacre is the first Yorkshire school to receive this level of award and only the second school in England to reach platinum standard. We are exceptionally proud of this achievement and will strive to ensure that Greenacre remains a school that is built on the foundations of respect and appreciation for difference and diversity.
About the Leading Parent Partnership Award
The Leading Parent Partnership Award gives schools a coherent framework to deliver effective parental engagement from early years to post-16. Through this award, schools can meet a number of longer-term success criteria, such as improved pupil progress, punctuality, attendance and behaviour and increased parental involvement in school life. Using the evidence portfolio, leaders can easily demonstrate, to Ofsted inspectors and other stakeholders, that the school has an outstanding and sustainable programme for parental engagement. Greenacre achieved this award in February 2019.
The Greenacre Bagel Breakfast
Greenacre is proud to work in partnership with Magic Breakfast, providing a healthy breakfast to all our pupils so that they are settled and ready to learn. Magic Breakfast provides Greenacre with nutritious breakfast food to ensure children start their school day in the best possible way. Breakfast gives children the energy needed for the busy school morning, enabling them to focus on their lessons. Here at Greenacre we offer The Greenacre Bagel Breakfast every morning to ensure no child is too hungry to learn.
Classroom Breakfast/Bagels
Brief Description: Every morning a child is offered ‘The Greenacre Bagel Breakfast’ to ensure no child goes hungry at the start of the school day.
Venue: classroom
Time: Start 9:00am or 10:30am
For more information on the Magic Breakfast provision at Greenacre please contact Elaine Padgett Pastoral Welfare Lead. For more information on the Magic Breakfast initiative please visit the Magic Breakfast website.
