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SAFEGUARDING
AT THE REGENT
SECONDARY SCHOOL
When Behaviour
Mrs Patience Uwakwe
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Speaks:
ast week, a usually confident stu-
dent handed in a blank test sheet.
LNo explanation. No eye contact. Her
teacher might have been tempted to call
it laziness or defiance, but instead, she
paused and asked, “Are you okay?” That “Are you okay?” That small
small moment of curiosity opened the
door to a much bigger conversation. Be- moment of curiosity opened
hind the silence was a child overwhelmed the door to a much bigger
by things happening outside of school.
Her behaviour was speaking, and thank- conversation.
fully, someone was listening.
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