Category Archives: Digital leaders

Make It Happen

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You may remember a few months ago that we launched an app design competition for our P1-7 children through the Make It Happen Club, a charity whose aim is to inspire children’s digital learning!

This week Frances from Make It Happen returned to Toronto for a special Assembly to announce the winning design.

Frances and the engineers had such a difficult time choosing a winner as all the entries were of such a high standard.

Some children were awarded certificates for inspiring ideas for their apps. Frances then announced our two runners up and our overall winner, who were all absolutely delighted with their prizes.

The Make it Happen engineers built a first version of the winning app before the assembly so that we could all see and download it straight away. After the assembly our winner worked with Frances to refine their app.

Well done to all our children who entered and those who received an award for their efforts.

A huge thank you to Frances and the Make It Happen Club for allowing us to be part of this fantastic opportunity!

Scan the QR code below to take you to the Make it Happen website and click on the Winners tab to see Toronto’s winning app design!

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Safer Internet Day 2024

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As part of Safer Internet Day our Digital Leaders delivered presentations to all our children at Toronto, from Nursery right through to P7.

They shared information and knowledge around the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people, with the the theme for this year of ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. The team enjoyed delivering these presentations to the classes and also hosted quizzes for our older classes and read stories relating to this theme to our younger children.

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Guess Who? Toronto Style! Winners

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Toronto Style!

Thank you and well done to everyone who took part in our Guess Who? Toronto Style! bitmoji quiz.

The top 2 scoring pupils from all three blocks were delighted to receive their winners prize today.

Well done to everyone who entered! Certificates will make their way to you soon.
How many of our Toronto staff did you correctly identify? Check your answers here.

 

Guess Who? Toronto Style!

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Last chance today to take part in our Toronto game of Guess Who?

Quiz ends today at 6pm

Can you guess our Toronto School staff?
Our staff have created bitmoji’s for our online learning platform.
Follow the link below to guess your staff’s bitmojis. How many can you identify?

https://bit.ly/3d0o68k

*With prizes for our top scorers!

 

Internet Safety

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One of our Primary 7 pupils has been working really hard to provide some important information on how to stay safe online and proudly shared her leaflet detailing some great advice. Our Digital Leaders would like to use this fabulous piece of work to display in all classes and share with our families at home. Well done!

Terrific Toronto Teachers

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Our Toronto staff have been taking part in a variety of sessions, including online learning, to develop their knowledge and skills in using some of our digital resources.

In our latest session they have been refreshing their knowledge of Education City. This website is an active and engaging resource we use in class to support our pupils’ learning.

Toronto’s Digital Leaders also attended this learning session and are confident in supporting our pupils, and our staff, in the use of this fab resource. What super team work at Toronto!

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Internet Safety

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The digital leaders have recently been talking about internet safety, here are are top tips for staying safe online:

  1. Never share your personal details, eg. age, where you live etc.
  2. Always have parental supervision
  3. Don’t contact anybody you don’t know
  4. Only accept friend requests from people you know
  5. Keep your logins and passwords safe and don’t let anyone know them

Parents, you can also help keep your children safe online by following the advice in the link below:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/public/torontops/uploads/sites/22/2019/03/internet-safety.jpg

Stay safe 4 life!

by Michael, Digital Leader

Safer Internet Day

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Tuesday was Safer Internet Day, and here at Toronto all classes took part in lessons and activities in which we were able to develop our knowledge.

Our DIgital Leaders worked with a variety of classes on a social media quiz, identifying the age individuals must be engage with a variety of social media. We were surprised by some of the age limits on these, particularly YouTube!

As the Digital Leaders were working in classes, the theme of consent and permission was a hot topic and children were able to discuss their thoughts and give opinions on this and how we can keep ourselves and others safe online.

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Digital Leaders – Teacher Training

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Our amazing Digital Leaders have been working hard in school to develop our use of ICT. One aspect of this development is to ensure that staff are confident in using the hardware and software with the children. Our Digital Leaders have been hosting some after school sessions on some programmes that staff may find beneficial to pupils’ learning. We have delivered sessions over the course of this term on Imovie, Scratch, Word Clouds, Quiver, Sway and Didbook. We have even been into classes to support the teachers and pupils in using these.

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