Living and Learning: Staying safe online
Our current Living and Learning theme is keeping safe and with Safer Internet Day coming up next week, we learnt a very important message when d:side visited yesterday.
Here’s some of the learning we covered.
- How to keep ourselves safe when we are on the internet (online) and using websites.
- To know what we can use the internet for.
- To know what information is safe and not safe to share on the internet.
- To know what to do if we are not sure.
This session reinforced a lot of the e-safety work we have been covering this half term in our computing topic and Dave from d:side was impressed with our responses and our overall knowledge of this important safety issue. Well done, Year 2!
Rufus impressed us with his knowledge of the PEGI games rating system.
Finally, we had to decide what to do in different situations and explain our decision.
Living and Learning: Children’s Mental Health Week
Set up by children’s mental health charity Place2Be, Children’s Mental Health Week shines a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health.
Young Minds is also a great source of information and support about young people’s mental health.
Mental health forms part of our Living and Learning long term plan and we encourage pupils to look after their mental health as well as their physical health. This maybe through the use of mindfulness and calming down techniques, recognising their own and others’ emotions and knowing how to seek help if needed. This guide shares some of the techniques we use.
In addition to Children’s Mental Health Week, Every Mind Matters is a national mental health campaign from Public Health England.
D:side
Dave from d:side visited us this morning to talk about staying safe online.
We talked about how we can’t believe everything we see online. We learnt that sometimes people might put something online which isn’t true to get likes, shares, money or to change people’s minds about something. This is called fake news.
We also talked about how we need to be really careful if we’re sharing things online as, once it’s online, it’s very hard to remove. 
We also talked about different games and age-restrictions which tell us if a game is suitable for us to play or not. We also looked at some symbols we might see on games which tell us some of the content in the game which may not be suitable.
Living & Learning – online safety.
We had another visitor from Y6 favourite d:side who came to remind us about safe choices to continue making us happy and healthy people.
All the children spotted the strong links with our computing topic. Challenge your child to explain how d:side’s visit linked with:
- digital footprint
- phishing
- dis- and misinformation
Living and Learning: Internet Safety
In today’s Living and Learning lesson, we were learning about internet safety.
This lesson linked to our current statement: I make safe choices, including online.
The children explored a poem called ‘Jessica’s Wish’ – a poem that explains the importance of uniqueness.
Have a read of the poem yourself!
Addition
We’ve been doing lots of learning in maths about addition. The children have been taught a range of strategies such as counting on number lines, bridging through 10 and using number facts to help them answer addition calculations. In our last maths session, the children used these strategies to solve addition problems.
Algorithms
In computing, we’ve continued our learning with the Bee-Bots. In our latest session, the children were given a destination that the Bee-Bot had to reach and they wrote their own algorithms. After this, we inputted them into the Bee-Bot to see if they were correct.
We are loving our computing learning this term!
Computing: Scratch
This half term our topic has been computing.
The children in Year Five, over the last few weeks, have been creating their own computer games on Scratch!
The games they’ve been creating link to our class novel: Survivors.
Their games have been created using algorithms – these are specific instructions which tell different components of the game what to do!
Here are a few of our games so far…
Love of Reading
Today, Year Three read with Reception class and shared their love of reading. See some pictures, below.
Well done, Reception and Year 3!
Spelling
In Year Three, we try to be as creative as possible when practising our spellings. Today, we had a go at some of these ideas that we could use at home for our spelling homework. See some pics, below.
