Introduction

The City School International in Sharjah provides a safe and healthy environment for students and staff.

Policy

There are two main elements in our Health and Safety policy;

• Alertness, awareness, attention, and early detection of signs of physical and emotional sickness, illness, abuse, discomfort, and anti-social behaviour.
• Protection by following agreed procedures, ensuring staff are trained and supported to respond appropriately and sensitively to child safety and protection concerns.

We recognise the importance of our students’ good health, high self-esteem, confidence, supportive friends, and access to a trusted adult. These lead to a healthy and happy life and prevent abuse. Our school will therefore:

• Establish and maintain an environment where students feel safe and secure and are encouraged to talk, and are listened to.
• Ensure that students know that there are adults within the school whom they can approach if they are worried or are in difficulty.
• Include in the curriculum activities and opportunities to equip students with the skills they need to stay safe from illnesses and abuse.
• Include in the curriculum material which will help students develop realistic attitudes to the responsibilities of adult life.
• Ensure that wherever possible every effort will be made to establish effective working relationships with parents and colleagues from partner agencies.

COORDINATED SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAMS

Health Education

A planned curriculum that:

• addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health.
• Motivates and assist the students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health related risk behaviours.
• Allows students to develop and demonstrate health-related knowledge, attitudes skills and practices.

Mandatory health education topics

• Childhood Obesity
• Hands Hygiene & Respiratory Etiquette
• Healthy Diet & Nutrition
• Personal Hygiene
• Importance of Immunization
• Importance of Physical Exercise
• Management of Asthma
• Management Diabetes
• Head lice prevention
• Depression
• First aid
• Dental Hygiene

Physical Education

A planned curriculum that:

• provides cognitive content and learning experiences in a variety of activity areas such as basic movement skills, physical fitness, rhythms, outdoor games, team plays, dual and individual sports, tumbling and gymnastics.
• promotes optimum physical, mental, emotional, and social development, through a variety of planned physical activities.
• ensurse that qualified, trained teachers are supervising physical activities.

Health Services

Services provided for students to:

• appraise, protect, and promote health.
• ensure access or referral to primary healthcare services or both.
• prevent and control communicable disease and other health problems
• provide emergency care for illness or injury.
• promote and provide optimum sanitation.
• provide educational and counselling opportunities for promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health.
• Provide services by qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel.

Healthy School Environment

Our school environment has outstanding physical and aesthetic surroundings alongside an excellent psychosocial climate and wellbeing culture.

Immunisation

School provides vaccine for all children due for immunisation in collaboration with DHA.

First Aid training for teachers:

All the departments must have one person first aid trained to deal with emergency.

CHILD PROTECTION PROTOCOL

Student Privacy and Rights

Student should be treated with respect, consideration, and dignity and should be given the opportunity to participate in decisions involving their healthcare.

Bullying

We are committed to providing a caring, friendly and safe environment for all students so they can enjoy learning in a relaxed and secure atmosphere. Bullying of any kind is unacceptable. If bullying does occur, all students should know that incidents will be dealt with promptly and effectively.

Safeguarding

School Procedures

Any member of staff concerned about the safety of a child must inform the Designated Safeguarding Lead.

Responsibilities of school staff:

• All school staff has a responsibility to identify and report suspected abuse.
• Staff are expected to provide a safe and caring environment in which they should be aware of signs and symptoms of abuse.
• All school staff are expected to keep clear, dated, factual and confidential records of child protection.
• Particular attention will be paid to the attendance and development of any child who has been identified as at risk.

Types of Abuse

Neglect: The persistent or severe neglect of a child which results in impairment of health or development

Physical: Actual or likely physical injury to a child, or failure to prevent physical injury or suffering.

Sexual: Actual or likely exploitation of a child by involvement in sexual activities without informed consent or understanding, or that violate social taboos or family roles.

Emotional: Actual or likely severe adverse effects on the emotional and behavioural development of a child by persistent or severe emotional ill-treatment or rejection.