Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

How are young people today supported to stay safe online and at the same time be shown consideration for the mental health and wellbeing impact that an incident may have?

Preventative measures to keep young people safe and secure online are nothing new but what should a young person do if something has gone wrong?

In this presentation we will explore how online issues can impact on a young person’s mental health and wellbeing and any future engagement online. We will discuss ways of helping overcome any barriers that may prevent them maintaining their online presence, including ways to help them stay safe and secure online, whilst supporting them with any trauma and wellbeing related issues.

Attendees will hear from Scott Tees, an accomplished Online Safety and Cyber Security and Prevention Consultant who possesses a proven track record in designing and delivering robust security solutions and strategies to manage and mitigate risks. He was responsible for the creation and development of the Police Scotland Cybercrime Prevention Strategy and was the national lead for the Police Scotland Cybercrime Harm Prevention Team until June 2020.

Attendees will also hear from Roxanne Kerr, an experienced and qualified clinical certified trauma specialist with a master’s degree in counselling from Abertay University and a certificate from the Trauma Institute International. Over the last 7 years, she has successfully worked with trauma survivors including extensive work with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and individuals with mental health illnesses including bipolar and schizophrenia.

Join NPFS, Education Scotland, Scott and Roxanne for this presentation followed by a Q&A that you can sign up to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keeping-our-children-and-young-people-safe-and-well-online-tickets-267568082337

Stacey-Ann Lindsay

Parental Engagement and Learner Participation Policy Officer | Curriculum Unit | Directorate for Learning | Scottish Government |

Please note for the foreseeable future Scottish Government staff are working from home. I am contactable by email – Stacey-Ann.Lindsay@gov.scot

Hi Primary 4! 🙂

It has been a short week but a busy and fun week. We all enjoyed watching our Burns poem finalist perform their poems for the school. We couldn’t be together as a whole school but all watched at the same time and had a sing song with our doors open! I think our class may have been the loudest during the songs! 🙂 Click the sway below to see a few short clips of us singing!

Burns Poem Finalists

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We have also been exploring mummification for our Egyptians topic and have enjoyed mummifying an orange this afternoon. We will complete the process on Tuesday and check in on them in a months time to see what has happened!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend! 🙂

Miss Baillie & Mrs Ferguson.

Good morning,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Last week in class we going back in time with the story ‘Cave Baby’ and looked at what we believe mammoths and sabre tooth tigers were like. The children did some fabulous drawings of a sabre tooth tiger and we will paint them this week. They really enjoyed finding out about them and explored their habitats. The children watched Newsround on Friday and it was great to hear what they found fascinating but what was particularly nice was  the article about the coral reef and the children recalled a lot of the work we did last year when we studied ‘under the sea’. It also took us back to lots of the work we did on habitats and COP 26. We shared lots of great memories. I think you might also find they are quite interested in the Winter Olympics in the coming weeks.

Language this week:

Dory – sound v and continue with words have, just, to

Nemo – sound au and words because, week, keep, when

We will try to embed the words after the holidays that we have learnt over the last 2 terms and to do this please try out the tricky word games on Education City. These can repeated to build confidence to remember them,  help decode them and where possible to spell them.

In maths we are continuing our work on addition and have recently being adding 3 numbers and the children are getting very good at looking for clues to add these numbers mentally by using strategies of finding a pair that makes 10 or is there a double or near double. Again please continue to use the games on Education City to help with this.

Thanks again,

Mrs Carey.