Welcome to Vickerstown Primary & Brambles Nursery School
A very warm welcome to Vickerstown Primary and Brambles Nursery School from myself, the pupils, staff and governors.
Vickerstown is proud to be a fully inclusive primary school providing excellent education in a bright, modern facility with amazing outdoor and indoor spaces. Pupils follow a wide and balanced curriculum based on experimental learning across all subjects with successful outcomes for the Year 6 SATS putting it at the top of the KS2 value added table.
Children learn the value of friendship, good manners, hard work and how to make a difference in the world following the school’s vision of a best academic start combined with grounding to become successful members of society.
Mr David Holmes
Headteacher
Contact Details
School office: 01229 471350
Email: a.devereux@vickerstownschool.org.uk
Safeguarding
Vickerstown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our pupils. We expect all staff and volunteers to share our ethos and commitment to safeguarding.
We strive to ensure that our safeguarding policy and procedures are in place to support our children, families and staff at school. All concerns are communicated to the members of staff who are specially trained as Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL). Our safeguarding leads are:
- Designated Safeguarding Lead: Mark Bland (Deputy Headteacher)
- Deputy Safeguarding Lead: David Holmes (Headteacher)
- Designated Safeguarding Governor: Helen Smith
Please do not hesitate to contact any member of school staff if you have any serious concerns about your child or any other pupil at Vickerstown. Alternatively, if it is an emergency situation you can contact the police on 999 or you can contact the Cumbria Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) on 0333 373 2724.
At Vickerstown, we ensure the safety of our pupils by:
- providing all staff and governors with the document 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' annually.
- ensuring all staff complete a Level 1 course in Safeguarding and repeat this every three years.
- securing our school throughout the school day by locking our school gates. using a signing in/out system at our office.
- ensuring all visitors wear a lanyard to show that they have signed in.
- ensuring all staff have up-to-date DBS checks in line with school policy.
- ensuring school has adopted the Safer Recruitment principles by training key staff and governors and that this is reflected during the interview procedure.
- ensuring references for new staff are sought and validated prior to appointment.
- ensuring all professional colleagues who work directly with pupils in our school have DBS checks.
- ensuring DSL/DDSL/SLT have an up-to-date Level 3 qualification in Safeguarding.
- training staff in 'Prevent' so they can spot the signs of radicalisation or extremism.
To access our safeguarding policy please visit our policy page.
Please see the links below for help and support information.
Cumbria Safeguarding Children Childline Cumbria Welfare Page Barrow Foodbank CEOP : Online safety advice. Dealing with online abuse Domestic Abuse Support Women's Community Matters
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Our Vision
We aim to provide an outstanding education in the heart of the community and as such we make every effort that the children at Vickerstown have the best academic start and grounding possible to enable them to become successful members of society.
