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• Achievement Assembly

  Fri 24 Feb 2023

  Well done to our Stars of the Week, top  Doodlers and attendance champions of the week. Keep up the fantastic work. 

  

• Safer Internet Day 2023

  Thu 09 Feb 2023

   Please follow the link below for information on how to help your child use the internet safely.
  
  Safer Internet Day 2023 - film for parents and carers

  Safer Internet Day Guidance for Parents

• Safer Internet Day 2023

  Wed 08 Feb 2023

   2023 Theme ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’

   

  We celebrated Safer Internet Day this year with a whole school assembly, led by Pip Bhol, who talked about how we can keep ourselves safe online, and how to make the most of using the internet positively and safely. We also invited parents in for a talk with Katy Potts, Islington E-safety lead, on the dangers of the internet and prolonged unsupervised use. 

  Parents were then invited to our 'Bring a Parent to...' e-safety workshops in class.

   

  Please see below for useful information:

  Online Safety Alert in Early Years  Early Years Practitioners have been raising concerns for many years re the screentime habits of 0-5 inc. YouTube and TikTok  is the daily diet for many early years children. 
  Managing screentime on these platforms is challenging because of the design features and extreme & dangerous content is easily accessed, with violent and scary video content masked by Early Years friendly titles such Huggy Wuggy or 'Rainbow Friends'  And these platforms are often watched on small devices or family phones, overtime resulting in poor posture and motor skills, with lifelong habits are formed at such a critical time for physical, social, emotional and communication and language development.
  This Safer Internet Week support families and children on the Online safety agenda and promotion of “good tech” such as Busythings and CbbC.  

   

  Resource for Parents - Parent Infographics Resources from LGFL - see link 

  Parent Infographics

   

  Highly Regarded Learning Games and Apps from The Science Museum https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/games-and-apps
  And promoted at this weekend’s Nursery World Event at Design Centre Islington, excellent BBC Resource for EYFS https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people
  
  Ideas for School Newsletter for Families Safer Internet Day Special 
  Online Safety Reminders From the Safer Internet centre – family resources https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2023/parents-and-carers
  Digital Diet, “Not No tech but good tech” - platforms like TikTok + YouTube really are the Wild West or Junk Food!
  Extreme & dangerous content is easily accessed and sadly Youtube and TikTok is the daily diet for many children.
  Children don’t always understand meanings of words or impact of viewing.  Until the Online Harms bill is passed, parents need to stay very involved and check your child’s devices every day. 
  Parental control and monitoring tools including Google Family Link, Apple ScreenTime and Microsoft Family Safety https://parentsafe.lgfl.net And https://www.internetmatters.org
  Free phone helpline for families 7-9pm school nights https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/

  

• Attendance Cup winners

  Fri 03 Feb 2023

  Well done to St Martin Class for winning the attendance cup for the third week in a row. Excellent, keep it up!

  

• 03/02/2023 Stars of the Week

  Fri 03 Feb 2023

  Well done to our Stars of the Week, top Math's Doodlers and Disciple of the week. Keep up the fantastic work. 

  

• BookTrust

  Thu 02 Feb 2023

  St Joseph class took part in the 'Book Trust Story Time' with Lewis Carroll library. We enjoyed reading and talking about new books. Once we completed all books we took a vote to see what book we liked the most. We enjoyed this so much we will definitely be taking part in the Summer reading challenge.