Safer Internet Day

This year, we celebrated 'Together for a better internet' with a whole host of activities relating to consent and staying safe online:

• We read a fairytale with a twist 'Goldilocks - #a hashtag cautionary tale' and discussed the implications of Goldilocks' careless attitude towards e-safety. We then hot seated Goldilocks and gave her some top tips for staying safe online.
• We looked at the 'Rights of the child' and how they relate to staying safe online. We sorted our cards into a diamond 9 shape depending on our priorities.
• We pretended to describe consent to an alien and played a game about proximity and how our facial expressions and actions show our feelings about consent as well as the words that we use.
• We predicted who the biggest internet users of the world are and then represented our data in a variety of different ways.

KS1 also took part in the day focusing on making safe choices and staying safe online. Each year group celebrated the day with a whole host of activities and discussion and we can't wait to share our masterpieces and nuggets of learning in Friday's celebration assembly.

We had so much fun and, best of all, we now know exactly what we need to do to stay safe online and how important it is to both ask for, and give, consent.

Coding Club with Miss G

Over the Autumn Term Miss Grove has been running Coding Club every Monday from 3:10 until 4:10 where pupils from Lower Key Stage 2 have been participating in various coding activities. 

We have used Hour of Code to learn about how Minecraft and Star Wars creators use code in their day to day jobs to create these magical words. We have created a Maths Quiz as well as adapting and debugging code. We have lots of fun developing our coding skills.

Digital Leaders

This year we have continued with our wonderful Digital Leaders, who are Computing Ambassadors throughout the school. They take on a number of key roles and help their teachers to troubleshoot when Computing goes wrong (as sadly it does from time to time!). They also promote the importance of e-safety and remind their peers of this on a regular basis. Take a sneaky peak at their Job Description (which they take very seriously ;-)

“The school’s work to keep pupils safe and secure is outstanding. The school’s core values of respect, honesty, co-operation and resilience promote and foster excellent relationships across the school. The school provides high quality training and guidance to the pupils about staying safe. Through the work the school provides, pupils understand very clearly why they must be careful when playing games online or using social media sites on the internet.” ~ Ofsted

Pupils' views

At GBPS “We are not tolerant of cyberbullying”

“It’s about staying safe online”

“It’s about knowing what to do if you see something which is not safe”

“It’s about sticking to age limits on games and online”

”That’s called PEGI”

“I like that we can express ourselves in different ways”

“I find programming fun”

“I like doing PowerPoints”

“We can use it every day in a different way”