Red Nose Day this year is Friday 15th March. This year the Pupil Council and the Fundraising Committees have been working together to plan a day of fundraising fun!
Please check the ‘special events’ section of the school website to find out more details about this.
All proceeds of this day will be going towards Comic Relief.
A reminder that Parents’ Night takes place on Wednesday 20th March and Thursday 21st March.
Please check your child’s homelink this week for Parents’ Night appointment time slips. Thank you to everyone who returned these last week. We have tried our best to give you the times that you have asked for.
The Woodpark Showcase takes place next Thursday (14/3). Parents and carers are invited from 1:30 – 2:30 to see everything your children have been learning in their big topics!
Children should be collected at the school gates as usual at 3pm and cannot be taken home early.
A reminder that Toasty Tuesdays and Thursdays is on at playtimes. Children must bring correct change and are allowed one slice each.
On the home page of the website you will now find a link button to the website ‘Internet Matters’. This is a UK based website that has been set up to help keep children safe online. Common Sense Media is still an excellent resource but this website is specifically tailored to the UK.
The website has some excellent content and is being continuously updated to help tackle the fast-moving issues our children face online. It deals with all of the issues online today in a very easy to digest format.
Clicking the green logo on our home page will take you to the Internet Matters home page or you can click the link below.
Click here to visit Internet Matters
The March newsletter are now available to view or download in the Newsletters and Nursery sections of the website or click below to view.
School newsletter
Nursery newsletter
As part of World Book Day this Thursday (6/3) the children can bring in a pair of pyjamas/onesie to change into for the ‘bedtime story’ theme.
We continue to have issues with parking in or across the disabled parking bays. These spaces must be kept free and accessible for blue badge holders only. Please ensure you do not park in or across these spaces. Thank you.
This Friday (1/3) is not a dress down day. Children should wear school uniform as usual.
As many of you will be aware, there is an internet fad called ‘Momo’. Varying accounts of what happens from country to country are very different, but it appears to be a progressive dare game.
Currently the situation in the UK seems to be more about hype and scaremongering than the actual game. Rumours are quickly spreading and many of them are unsubstantiated.
There does not appear to be any actual hacking involved. The child must engage in conversation for anything to happen.
As the details of the craze are unclear our advice is –
• Firstly speak to your children and reassure them. Let them know that they should not be afraid of the rumours and that they can speak to you.
• Go through their personal devices with them and ask them to account for every friend and conversation they have. If they cannot explain a friend or conversation in an app such as Instagram, Snapchat or WhatsApp we would strongly advise that they are removed.
• Check games consoles such as xBoxs and Playstations for friend lists as well.
• Check these devices every day, as things like this can be very fast-moving.
• Make sure they are searching safely online using parental controls such as Google ‘SafeSearch’.
• Make sure you are aware of exactly what your child is doing and viewing online – particularly YouTube. A lot of the rumour content is being circulated through YouTube.
