All parents are welcome to come and see a special class assembly 2:50 - 3:10 pm on the following dates:

Nidd & Swale - Monday 7th July 

All Year 1 children (Aire & Y1 Wharfe) - Tuesday 24th June

Derwent - Tuesday 17th June

Calder - Tuesday 15th July

Humber - Tuesday 1st July

What's Cooking?

A small group of children from Team Foss and Team Derwent have been in Cook School this week making delicious cake pops and biscuits.  They had the opportunity to use a range of cooking techniques, primarily mixing, rolling, using cutters and decorating.  They all worked so hard and had a thoroughly enjoyable experience!  The cake pops looked delicious and were taken home to share with their families.  Well done to all of you!

I also welcomed Team Humber back to Cook School.  They have enjoyed making Victoria Sponge which they will share with some visitors from another school in a couple of weeks.  The children were able to use a range of cooking techniques, including measuring, weighing, mixing, beating, baking and had the opportunity to sample a cupcake at the end of the lesson.

Whilst working in Cook School, they learnt about the origin of the Victoria Sponge and chatted about what foods were available back in Victorian times.  They also learnt about seasonality and where some of our ingredients may have come from.  All of the children worked really hard and I know their cakes are going to be amazing when we share them with our visitors.

I will continue to work with the rest of Team Humber next week.

Mrs Soper

Cook School Lead

Dear parents and carers,

North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership would like to share information about a TikTok trend that has occurred recently in a small number of schools across North and West Yorkshire. The trend involves children deliberately restricting each other's breathing or applying pressure to the chest until they pass out. This is then recorded and added to social media. This can have significant health implications for the children involved.

The dangerous online challenge has existed before and has previously been known as “the blackout challenge” “speed dreaming”, although there is recent intel that this has been referenced as the “tap out challenge”  Please note when these, or similar searches are completed a TikTok the search is blocked and online safety messages in relation to online challenges are shared.

TikTok has released information with regards to safety and online challenges, which can be accessed here: https://www.tiktok.com/safety/en/online-challenges

Please note that due to safety restrictions on TikTok, children may also be sharing through other platforms.

As a partnership, we want to make school partners aware of the trend but are conscious that this has only been reported in a very small number of areas and are mindful not to inadvertently draw further attention to it and further fuel the trend.

As always, we encourage the use of open conversation with young people about their online lives and what they are seeing and hearing. Further resources to support this can be accessed here: Online safety: expert insight videos | NSPCC Learning

Resources for parents can be accessed here: Online challenges - advice for parents - UK Safer Internet Centre

If any schools hear any information in relation to the trend, we encourage intelligence to be shared via the partnership intelligence sharing online portal, which can be accessed here Share Community Partnership Intelligence | North Yorkshire Police (A further guide for the submission of intelligence is available here NYSCP)

Warm regards

Mr Metcalfe