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Yesterday was 'Safer Internet Day'. Mrs England read us a story about Smartie the penguin and how he made the right choices to stay safe whilst on his tablet.

We all talked about who can help us stay safe when we are online, at home and at school.

After the story we all made our own Smartie…

Yesterday we watched a video about Safer Internet Day (https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2020/i-am-educator/film-what-does-my-avatar-say-about-me).  It told us to use avatars online to keep us safe. We should use avatars instead of our photos online. I helped…

10R had a brilliant surprise in the post recently!!!

Last term during our English sessions we all wrote letters to David Walliams to practice a range of skills. These included writing and forming sentences including conjunctions, formatting a letter, spelling and perfecting our handwriting…

Today we have celebrated all things internet.

Our class Digital Leader stood spot light and delivered his lesson to his peers. Our digital leader has made massive progress with his social communications through this project and taught and supported his peers in making good choices when…

Today our Digital Leaders became teachers. They delivered an online safety lesson to their class peers. 
 

The message was to disguise their identity when online by creating an avatar. They discussed what sort of information is safe to display on social media profiles and offered suggestions…

9G have been very busy today for Safer Internet Day. Our super digital leader gave us some fun tasks to complete today. First we read an adaption of Goldilocks and how she used social media, highlighting how to stay safe online. We then watched a clip that told us how using a digital avatar can…

9G have been very busy today and made our own pizzas which we enjoyed eating at snack time. We had to work in our pairs and follow the instructions to make them. First we had to spread passata over our pizza base. Then we worked together sprinkling cheese on our pizzas and chopping peppers to put…

This week Willow learnt all about how we can stay safe on different games and websites when we are on our computers and iPads! 
We discussed what information we could share on the internet (e.g. a cartoon avatar and code name on a game) and what information we only tell friends and family. We…

10G took part in lots of activities for Internet safety day. We have been looking at stranger danger and why we use avatars on social media and gaming sites. Students played a game called "Be an Internet Legend" (available on Google) to understand what an avatar is. We watched a cartoon to think…

Last Thursday was our first history day of the year and all primary phase classes learnt about the Victorians.

Willow class learnt all about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian era, looking at Victorian schools and workhouses for children. The children loved learning about all the…

Day 4! What an amazing Day!

After another lovely breakfast we met with Nick at the bus in our waterpoof gear as we were going ghyll scrambling! We drove up into Whinlatter Forest again and drove down to where the stream was. On our way we were very lucky as we saw some Alpacas! We made sure we…

Barf group woke up and had another lovely breakfast at Calvert on Day 3! 

We met with Nick and the bus and found out that we were going canoeing! We were very excited, however some of us were a little nervous. It was a great day for it as the weather was a little sunny and calm! We got all of…