As our new school year begins, children in KS1 and KS2 children sign the Acceptable Use Agreement which includes the things the children must remember in order to stay safe online both when they are at home and school. This will be available for you to view under the policies section of the school website. Here, […]
Read MoreYear 3 – ICT
The Year 3 children learned all about the world wide web, internet, search engines and browsers. They used the web to find information on different birds of prey such as their diet, habitat and speed. They also found images of the birds. Once they had done this we practised copying and pasting images and creating a fact file in a word document.
Read MoreOnline Safety
Follow this link to the latest download of Vodafone’s digital parenting magazine. It has a useful round up of a number of online safety issues, focusing particularly on what the children themselves are talking about. https://www.flipsnack.com/FA7569CC5A8/digital-parenting-by-vodafone-2021-edition/full-view.html
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Cast your minds back and you may remember Safer Internet Day back in February this year. We were really pleased with the engagement from our children and now Safer Internet UK have published an impact report assessing how it has helped children’s engagement nationally. This is worth a read and has ideas for going forward. […]
Read MoreYear 5 & 6 Online Safety Talk
Please find below the documentation from the Year 5 & 6 Online Safety Talk – 10th March 2021. Information for Parents and Carers Social Media Guidance Supporting Young People Online
Read MoreOnline Safety: Among Us
Online Safety “Among us” Dear Parents, Many of you will be aware that the game Among Us is rapidly gaining in popularity ‘among’ our children. It has some great positives namely that it can actually encourage communication skills and teamwork online as the players work together to identify an imposter in their “crew”. However, you should make […]
Read MoreOnline Safety: Help from 2Simple
Our PurpleMash provider 2Simple has released an incredibly helpful parent guide to online safety in conjunction with Safer Internet Day 2021. This will really help you develop your children’s digital literacy in light of diminishing levels of trust in the infoscape. Please download using the link below and use it with your children over the […]
Read MoreOnline Safety – Family Adventures (Google
Internet Family Legends Dear Parents, Please have a look at this resource launched in conjunction with Google. It provides some helpful animations that explore issues of internet safety such as fraudulent activity and internet scamming. Family Internet Adventures Mr Bell
Read MoreOnline Safety: Gaming or Gambling
Digital safety is increasingly crossing into more and more areas of mental health and well being. GambleAware, the UK’s leading gambling support network, have highlighted how popular online games have increasingly addictive gambling functions such as lock boxes. Follow the link below and use the resources to help explore the issue with your children in […]
Read MoreMobile Phones – Head Teacher Update
Wednesday 13th March 2019 Dear Parents, It has been brought to my attention that pupils at St Catherine’s particularly in Year 5 and 6 have been bringing their internet/camera enabled phones to school. Some have been handing them into the office in a zipped bag or pencil case some have been keeping them in their […]
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