Tag Archives: health and wellbeing

Clyde Visits Busby

Clyde the Commonwealth Mascot visited Bubsy on the 31st of January. He presented us with the Commonwealth Legacy Game On Scotland Plaque. We our very proud to say that we are the first school in East Renfrewshire to be awarded this. We have achieved this due to all the fantastic work going on inspired by the Commonwealth Games.

See if you can find us on the Commonwealth map:

Extra-curricular Clubs for this term

We are extremely grateful to all the staff and parents that are supporting us this term by giving up their time to offer a wide variety of clubs.  If you can help out with any clubs, master classes or golden time activities or have an idea for a club that you would like to run, please contact the school.

Extra-curricular clubs April-June

Scottish School Meals Week

East Renfrewshire Catering are supporting the Scottish School Meals Week. This event will be promoted in this weekend’s Sunday Mail and schools will be featured throughout the week in the Evening Times.
The menus on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will have menus from finalists from the Scottish School Cook of the Year 2012, as the daily special. All menus throughout the week will be made from fresh produce, prepared as nutritional balanced meals. 

International School Meals Day is on Friday 8 March and will offer a buffet style menu in primary schools. 
 

 

 

Free Online Access Control Software for Parents from Argos

Argos partnered with Symantec to provide Norton’s Family Software to parents for free (no purchase necessary).  The software allows parents to block access to certain types of sites and monitors use.  It works on PCs and laptops and more to the point, on smartphones and tablets.  I’m told that one of the most popular questions from the October national campaign was from parents worried about how they can control their children’s use of mobile devices and how they would know what type of sites their kids were going to and this software fits that bill.  Features include:

Android smartphone monitoring – to see how children are using their phones

– Web monitoring and blocking – tracks what websites your child visits

– Time limits – manages the time children can access the internet from any device

– Social networking monitoring – keeps an eye on your children’s activity

– Search monitoring – updates what your children are searching for

– Email alerts – alerts you when your children do something they shouldn’t, like try to access blocked sites.

Argos made this move in support of the Government’s proposed legislation for ensuring protection for children from adult content on the internet.  If you want to know more, here is the link.  www.getsafeonline.org/news/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents/ .

Get Safe Online

GetSafeOnline is a UK joint initiative between government, law enforcement and leading businesses. They provide computer users and small businesses with free, independent user friendly advice that allows them to use the internet confidently and safely on a wide range of issues including how to protect and destroy a PC or mobile phone, recognise scams, protect privacy and what to do when things go wrong.

Please visit their website for further information

http://www.getsafeonline.org/