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Dyslexia Awareness Week

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Did you know that 1 in 10 people are dyslexic?

Dyslexia ranges from mild to severe. 1 person in 10 is dyslexic and of those, 1 in 4 has severe dyslexia. It often runs in the family.

Dyslexia can affect reading, writing and spelling. 

If you have dyslexia you may –

  • Have difficulty matching sounds to letter combinations
  • Be confused by similar looking / sounding letters (for example p, b and d)
  • Have difficulty remembering common letter patterns in spelling
  • BUT
  • You may be able to cope well verbally – talking may be a strength.

Dyslexia can also affect:

  • short term memory
  • ability to follow directions or instructions
  • organisational skills

Everyone is different and dyslexia affects people in different ways.  Not everyone with dyslexia will experience the same things.

Dyslexia is not a sign of low intelligence.  Some of the most successful business people are dyslexic.

 

The process of identification of dyslexia involves the child, the class teacher, the parents and the Support for learning teacher. A profile of strengths and needs is developed. Targeted intervention and strategies are put in place, assessments carried out and an identification can be made dependent on progress made and the continuing needs of the child.

Log on to https://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/ to find out more about dyslexia

or if you are between 8 and 18, log on to https://unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/

 

 

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Safer Internet Day 2019

Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 5th February with the slogan: ‘Together for a better Internet’.

Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved and join a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively.

The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and wider, to join together and help to create a better internet.

Each year for Safer Internet Day the UK Safer Internet Centre creates a range of resources to help educational settings and wider to celebrate the day. This includes:

  • Lessons plans, assemblies and films tailor made for all ages
  • Resources to support social media involvement on Safer Internet Day
  • Registration as a Safer Internet Day Supporter
  • National research looking at young people’s use of technology

The UK Safer Internet Centre invites everyone to join Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe to help create a better internet on Tuesday 5th February 2019, and throughout the whole year!

UK Safer Internet Centre

The UK Safer Internet Centre is a partnership of three leading charities – Childnet International, the Internet Watch Foundation and South West Grid for Learning, (SWGfL) – with a shared mission to make the internet a better place for children and young people.

The partnership was appointed by the European Commission as the Safer Internet Centre for the UK in January 2011 and is one of the 31 Safer Internet Centres of the Insafe network.

The UK Safer Internet Centre delivers a wide range of activity to promote the safe and responsible use of technology by children and young people:

  • coordinates Safer Internet Day in the UK, reaching millions every year. In 2018 Safer Internet Day reached 45 of young people and 30% of parents in the UK.
  • founded and operates an online safety helpline for professionals working with children in the UK, including teachers, police officers, GPs and more
  • operates the UK’s hotline for reporting online child sexual abuse imagery
  • develops new advice and educational resources for children, parents and carers and teachers to meet emerging trends in the fast-changing online environment
  • delivers education sessions for children, parents, carers, teachers and the wider children’s workforce, including free events across the UK
  • trains children and young people to be peer educators and champions for the safe and positive use of technology
  • shapes policy at school, industry and government level, both in the UK and internationally, and facilitates youth panels to give young people a voice on these issues.

For more information visit www.saferinternet.org.uk and the websites of the partners: Childnet, the Internet Watch Foundation and SWGfL.

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Murrayfield Primary School Website launched

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Murrayfield Primary School, Catherine Terrace, Blackburn – School Website

At Parents Evening, we showed you our Murrayfield website and promised that we would share the link with you.

Here it is!

http://www.murrayfieldprimary.westlothian.org.uk/

As always, please feel free to share any feedback.  We hope you find it helpful.

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Difficulty accessing files from our blog

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Thanks to everyone who let us know that they have been having difficulty accessing files from our blog today.

We think that the problem could be due to Word documents being uploaded.  I’ve asked staff to upload files in PDF format going forward.  In the meantime, please remember that if you do not have Word downloaded on your system at home, your child will be able to download the whole of Microsoft Office for FREE  on up to 5 devices – yes FREE – through Glow.  Not often you can say that nowadays!  So, if you have put off paying a huge amount to buy Office, just look for the icon when you first log in to Glow, on your launch pad and set about downloading it.

If neither of these solve your downloading problems, please let us know.  Thanks to Laura Compton for helping out!

Move down the page on the launch pad to the tiles below

Click on Office 365 Home to download

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Safer Internet Day 2018

Key messages

Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission*, each February to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology, especially among children and young people. Celebrated on the second day of the second week of the second month, each year on Safer Internet Day millions of people unite to inspire positive change and raise awareness of online safety issues and participate in events and activities right across the globe.

Safer Internet Day aims to not only create a safer internet but also a better internet, where everyone is empowered to use technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively.

Safer Internet Day aims to reach out to children and young people, parents and carers, teachers, educators and social workers, as well as industry, decision makers and politicians, to encourage everyone to play their part in creating a better internet.

By celebrating the positive power of the internet, the 2018 Safer Internet Day theme of “Create, Connect and Share Respect: a better internet starts with you” encourages everyone to join the global movement, to participate, to make the most of the internet’s potential to bring people together.

With a global, community-led approach, Safer Internet Day 2018 encourages everyone to join and play their part. There are many ways to do this:

  • Children and young people can help to create a better internet by being kind and respectful to others online, by protecting their online reputations (and those of others), and by seeking out positive opportunities to create, engage and share online.

 

  • Parents and carers play a crucial role in empowering and supporting children to use technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively, whether it is by ensuring an open dialogue with their children, educating them to use technology safely and positively, or by acting as digital role models.

 

  • Teachers, educators and social workerscan help to create a better internet by equipping their pupils and students with digital literacy skills and by developing their critical thinking skills, which will allow them to better navigate the online world. They can empower them to create their own content, make positive choices online and can set a personal example of online behaviour for their pupils and students.

 

  • Industry can help to create a better internet by creating and promoting positive content and safe services online, and by empowering users to respond to any issues by providing clear safety advice, a range of easy-to-use safety tools, and quick access to support if things do go wrong.

 

  • Decision makers and politicians need to provide the culture in which all of the above can function and thrive – for example, by ensuring that there are opportunities in the curriculum for children to learn about online safety, ensuring that parents and carers have access to appropriate information and sources of support, and that industry are encouraged to self-regulate their content and services. They must also take the lead in governance and legislation, and ultimately ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people through effective child protection strategies for the online world.

 

  • Everyone has a responsibility to make a positive difference online. We can all promote the positive by being kind and respectful to others and seeking out positive opportunities to create and connect. We can all respond to the negative by reporting any inappropriate or illegal content.

 

We invite everyone to join us, and Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe, to help create a better internet on Tuesday, 6 February 2018 and, indeed, throughout the whole year. A better internet starts with you!

 

Find out more about the global campaign for Safer Internet Day at www.saferinternetday.org.

Find out more about the UK campaign for Safer Internet Day at www.saferinternetday.org.uk

 

* Safer Internet Day would not be possible without the support of the European Commission. Currently the funding is provided by the Connecting Europe Facility programme (CEF). Find out more about the EC’s “European Strategy for a Better Internet for Children” on the European Commission’s website.