Online Safety: The Legends Family Adventure starts here

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Get involved in The Legends Family Adventure!

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We are delighted to launch The Legends Family Adventure – an exciting online safety series created by Google and Parent Zone and animated by Aardman Animations.

We’d love it if you could share the adventure with your network by retweeting us – and if you work in an education setting, we recommend checking out our teacher hub for all the materials you need to spread the word.

Watch the films

Are children being ripped off by online games?

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Vicki Shotbolt and Geraldine Bedell look at the links between loot boxes and gambling in this week’s episode of Tech Shock, Parent Zone’s new podcast.

Stream the new episode below or subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and other platforms.

Listen here

A new approach to online safety education

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If children are growing up in a world where online and offline are no longer two distinct things, how can we begin to educate around online safety?

Parent Zone has a range of free online resources that can help…

Find out more

Help Ollee to help parents and children

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Ollee is a powerful new tool to help parents manage their child’s emotional wellbeing.

A virtual friend in app form, Ollee helps families talk about difficult subjects and provides expert advice – so we’d love it if you shared it with your wider networks.

Download your social media pack below and help spread the word.

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Boost confidence with the Dove Self-Esteem Project

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The free Confident Me workshops are all about teaching 11 to 14-year-olds strategies to protect and build self-confidence – in themselves and others.

Get your pack now: it includes all the resources you need to run the sessions.

Find out more

Free: PZ resources for schools and organisations

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Sign up for Parent Zone Membership now and discover a range of online safety resources to support the family community you work with.
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Get Online LearnTelford, Donnington

Please find attached details of a one off training/information session with the aim of introducing online learning opportunities to customers. This session focuses on skilling people to use personal IT devices and overcome initial anxieties of enrolling and attending virtual learning courses.

I would be very grateful if you share the attachment with customers and partners, anyone wishing to attend this course and requires support to secure a place can ring our main office on 382888 or text/call 07800671757.

Get Online LearnTelford, Donnington.docx

Family Learning – Festive Crafts

Online Course – sign up by clicking link on poster.

Please find attached the poster and course overview for the Festive Crafts course with Kerry.

It would be great if we could start an information/support and guidance session next Wednesday 18th and then the course would start the week after, 25th.

Kerry will need to drop off resource packs to the school for the parents to either pick up, or be sent home with their child.

Festive Crafts – Donnington Wood Junior School – Kerry.docx

New winter package to provide further support for children and families

Information from the Government.

New winter package to provide further support for children and families

Yesterday, the Government announced a new £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme. This funding will be ring-fenced, with at least 80% earmarked to support with food and bills and will cover the period to the end of March 2021.

Local authorities will receive the funding at the beginning of December 2020.

This scheme will allow local authorities to support the hardest-hit families and individuals, as well as provide food for children who need it over the holidays. Local authorities understand which groups need support, and are best placed to ensure appropriate holiday support is provided, which is why they will distribute the funds, rather than schools, who will continue providing meals for disadvantaged children during term-time.

The Holiday Activities and Food Programme, which has provided healthy food and enriching activities to disadvantaged children since 2018, will also be expanded across England next year. This programme will cover Easter, Summer and Christmas in 2021, and will be available to children in every local authority in England.

Amazing

Dear Parents and Carers,

I wanted to share with you how proud I am of every child and teacher in the school. I have just been around the school, socially distanced, and I have been greeted by smiles and learning everywhere I have gone- even with our year 6s learning equivalent fractions! Thank you for trusting us with your children, and I can assure you the atmosphere in school today is amazing. I am so proud.

Make sure you go onto SeeSaw to see the work for yourself and share some likes.

Thank you,

Mr Fox

Online Safety for Parents

These are some good links to use

  • Thinkuknow provides advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA) on staying safe online
  • Parent info is a collaboration between Parentzone and the NCA providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
  • Childnet offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support
  • Internet matters provides age-specific online safety checklists, guides on how to set parental controls on a range of devices, and a host of practical tips to help children get the most out of their digital world
  • London Grid for Learning has support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online, including tips to keep primary aged children safe online
  • Net-aware has support for parents and carers from the NSPCC, including a guide to social networks, apps and games
  • Let’s Talk About It has advice for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation
  • UK Safer Internet Centre has tips, advice, guides and other resources to help keep children safe online, including parental controls offered by home internet providers and safety tools on social networks and other online services

I will be doing an assembly about the issues around TIkTok on Friday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-54777076 and the longer video on iPlayer.