Living and Learning – I stay safe online.
As part of our Safety themed week, Year 5 have been learning about staying safe online. Our first session was a drama workshop centred around a dystopian future where everyone has been sucked into a never ending game called Game Over.
“I learnt about when people might be faking to be someone else. For example someone could say that they are someone else.” – Arundeep
“You have to make your password something people won’t be able to know easily like your favourite footballer, favourite food and favourite number. You’d have to be very close to that person to guess that stuff.” – Zak
“You can spend money on games. Try not to spend too much money and make the game forget the card.” – Henry
We also enjoyed a visit from one of our favourite guests – d:side.
“Don’t chat with people you don’t know and don’t give out your personal information.” – Sam
“Set your social media accounts to private.” – William
“You don’t need more followers to be popular. You might not even know all of them. People with less followers could still be cool.” – Manpreet
“Someone may be different to what you see in a video game. If they say they’re 10, they might be 30-35. You should not friend them and don’t chat them and maybe block them.” – Ben
How to be safe near water
Year 3 had a visit from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution today! We reflected on top tips on how to be safe near water:
Sasha – “Always be between the yellow and red flags when swimming in the sea.”
Harman – “Don’t go on a boat without wearing a life jacket.”
Sam – “In an emergency at the beach call 999 and ask for the coastguard.”
Hope – “Always stay together.”
Can your child remember what slip slap slop slide and seek means?
Living and Learning: Staying Safe in school
I can stay safe in school is another one of our main areas of learning this week.
Year 2 looked at different areas of school to see what the dangers might be and how we can keep safe.
Do you recognise these places around school? How are they linked to staying safe?
Here is a summary of our learning for staying safe at school. Ask your child about their responsibility to stay safe at school.
Living and Learning: Staying Safe week day 3
We welcome four visitors to school today who will be giving a variety of staying safe messages as part of our themed week.
Thank you to Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative who have been busy carrying out maintenance checks on lots of bikes and also delivering basic bike maintenance sessions to Year 5 and 6. Their shop is local in Chapel Allerton.
Thank you to Barrie and Christine, local volunteers from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), who are delivering water safety sessions to children in Reception to Year 4 across the day.
Dave from dside is with us today and Friday to deliver e-safety sessions to children in Year 1 to Year 6.
Finally, this afternoon, the Moortown Fire Service visit us to deliver a fire safety talk to Year 5.
These are just some of the visitors supporting our Staying Safe themed week to enhance our staying safe learning.
Living and Learning: Staying Safe at home
I can stay safe at home is one of our main areas of learning this week.
We used this interactive story to consider different dangers that could be found in the home.
Tiger the Cat sees Poppy being taken off to hospital in an ambulance and learns that she has been hurt at home. He is determined to go through the house and find out how she might have hurt herself, in order to make the house safer for the family. The story shows different rooms or areas around the house (kitchen, lounge, hall, landing, bedroom, bathroom, garden, garden shed) – each has a number of potential dangers.
Can your child remember the dangers found in the kitchen below?
Here is a summary of the Year 2 learning about keeping safe at home.
Staying Safe Week
What a start it’s been to our Staying Safe themed week! First, the children thoroughly enjoyed their scooter training. It was fantastic to so many children come to school on their scooters. It would be great to see the children continue to come to school on their scooters and put all those safety tips they learnt into practice.
We also had a visit from Richard from One Day Creative. We learnt lots about staying safe online thanks to Richard. He told us a brilliant story about a pirate called Captain Digi and the many adventures he had been on sailing through the seas of the internet. In the story, Capital Digi showed us how to escape phishing mermaids and dodge the tentacles of cyber bullies. He also taught us the importance of keeping our pirate identities secret.
On Tuesday, we were very lucky to meet some of our areas PCSOs. The officers talked to us about the importance of staying safe in the environment and that they are always there to help if we need it.
Living and Learning: Safer Internet Day
I can stay safe online is one of our main areas of learning during the Staying Safe themed week.
Today, the children from Reception class, Year 1 and 2 were mixed up and they visited different teachers to learn all about keeping safe online.
This video highlights some key messages for when children might be playing a game online.
Here is a summary of the Year 2 e-safety learning for you to discuss with your child at home.
Living and Learning: Staying Safe with the police
Some of our local PCSOs came to visit school today. They talked about their role helping people in the community and keeping them safe. The class had some interesting questions to ask them.
‘I learnt what police community support officers do. They don’t have handcuffs as they don’t arrest people.’
‘I learnt that they work in different parts of Leeds.’
‘We saw the different parts of their uniform and we heard someone talking on the walkie talkie. On the top of the walkie talkie, there is a panic button so they can get help from other police officers.’
Living and Learning: Staying safe in the home
As Year 6s, the children will need to be more independent around the home so we learnt how to use the kitchen safely on our own.
We discussed making toast with the toaster and using a grill. We decided it would be safer to use the grill with an adult around but we could use the toaster on our own. At home, ask us how we can use the toaster safely – we should have loads of tips!
We talked about that pesky situation where your piece of toast is too small and you can’t get it out safely with your hands.
We know how to use the hob safely so we can cook our beans to go on toast.
And, we learnt the dos and don’ts when cooking jacket potatoes in the microwave.
Finally, we finished with pudding and now know how to make the safest hot chocolate. Ask us to make you a tea, coffee or hot chocolate – we can do it safely.
The children were really interested and involved in the whole session with lots of suggestions and questions to further their learning.
Living and Learning: Safer Internet Day
It’s Safer Internet Day and this has been a focus of learning today as part of our Staying Safe themed week. Below are some top tips for parents and carers to support your child to enjoy technology and the internet safely.
Our internet, our choice, so…
- Choose to have a conversation
Talk regularly with your child about how they use technology, and find out what their digital life is like, including what their favourite sites and services are and also how being online makes them feel. Listening to your child will give you the best possible idea of how you can support them. Not sure where to begin? Have a look at our suggested conversation starters for parents.
- Choose to take a balanced approach
As parents it’s natural to feel worried about the risks posed by your child being online, but for young people the online world is exciting and fun, as it brings so many opportunities for them. Remember that your child will use technology and the internet differently given that they are growing up in a world immersed in all things digital. Try to look at both the positive and negative aspects of being online and empower your child with safe choices they can make instead of overwhelming them with restrictions.
- Choose to make use of the tools available to you
There are lots of tools to help you manage the devices used by your family. For example, knowing how to activate and use parental controls can help protect your child from seeing inappropriate content online. For advice and guidance on how to make use of parental controls and other safety features on devices, check out our free Parents’ Guide to Technology and Internet Matters’ step-by-step parental controls guides for online services.
- Choose to get help and support
It can sometimes feel like young people are the experts in all things digital but remember – you are the life experts. You are always there to help your child but make sure you know how to get support too by visiting our Need Help? page. You can take steps to support your child online by using features such as privacy settings on social media and understanding how to make a report on a range of apps, games and services.
- Choose to be current and topical
This Safer Internet Day focuses on the very relevant topic of consent in the digital world. Use this as an opportunity to support your child with how they tackle digital consent within relationships and friendships as well as how online services use the data we provide. Use our quick activities as a family this Safer Internet Day to help you unpick this topic together.