This week, our Living and Learning theme has been I know that people should treat others respectfully when online. It tied in with Safer Internet Day. Check out the tips, advice, guides and resources for parents and carers.
We’ll start off this week’s message sticking to this theme…
Online safety quiz
Does your child know how to stay safe online? Test their knowledge with this online quiz.
Maude and Scram – Fraud Advice for Infant Children
The West Yorkshire Police Fraud Team have devised a series of video stories to share with your child: check out Maude and Scram’s YouTube page. Have a read of the Maude and Scram Fact Sheet about online safety, too.
How Safe is WhatsApp for children?
WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging apps, used by over 2 billion people in 180 countries. To set up an account, all you need is a phone number. Check out this blog from the NSPCC about the dangers of the app, and don’t miss their top tips.
Want to read more? This article from ParentZone is also worth a read.
Manipulative marketing in mobile games
Children are increasingly major components in the online games industry.
Free in the context of apps is a highly flexible term.Whilst they claim to be free, many games are deceptively pay to play: the download is free but most of the gameplay is locked. Online gaming firms use the ‘free’ label to draw in players. Money making tactics such as this can be hard to detect, even for adults.
Read more about manipulative marketing on the Better Internet for Kids site. You’ll learn why companies use these tactics and how they can impact your child and their rights. You’ll also learn how you can support your child to spot and avoid these issues, as well as where you can seek help and support.
Moving from staying safe online, we’ve two more articles this week…
Our annual Number Challenge
Each year, we raise money with an annual sponsored Number event:
- children in Years 1, 2 and 3 do an addition/subtraction challenge
- children in Years 4, 5 and 6 do a multiplication/division challenge
On Wednesday 26 February, we’ll repeat the challenge, hopefully seeing some huge improvements and raising lots of money along the way.
Children have their facts to work on over the holiday and hopefully get some family and friends to sponsor them on their journey to improvement. Can you help your child get sponsors for each correct answer they get?
Children in Reception join in, too – they’ll do a tens frame challenge on the same day.
Money that we raise will be shared between our chosen charity, Yorkshire Air Ambulance, and the PTA.
Our annual Reception parents/carers survey
Have you completed our Reception survey yet?
Each year, we ask parents/carers of children in Reception to complete a short survey. It should only take 5-10 minutes or so. Your feedback helps us to explore ways we might be able to improve the Reception year. It’s also an opportunity to let us know any specific questions or concerns you might have – we’ll try to respond to all of these (leaving your name will help, but that’s optional).
Have a happy and healthy weekend.
