PTA first official meeting - 11th February

Mrs Hayes has arranged for our first official AGM of our new PTA to take place in the last week of this half term. We have the formal business of electing the committee and adopting a constitution but will also have the chance to explore some initial ideas. Everyone is welcome whether you wish to be part of the committee or just to volunteer some time to support. All offers of help, however small, are greatly appreciated.

Date: Tuesday 11th Feb

Time: 9-10am

Venue: School hall 

If you want to find out more about joining the PTA, or have any other questions, Mrs Hayes can be contacted on 07810 781 352. 

Cyber Security Sessions

The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit’s (ERSOU) Cyber Protect and Cyber Choices team are offering their popular free online education sessions focusing on parents and carers around the cyber world. There are multiple dates throughout this  academic year.  Please note there are two parts to the parent events, and attendees would need to register for each independently.

Parents Event - Pt1 - Introduction to Cyber Choices and Online Risks

This is an opportunity for parents/carers to learn and ask questions regarding thier children in the online world.

They will receive an overview of:

• Some of the potential risks that children and young people may experience online.

• Advice to support parents to make informed decisions and keep their children safer online. 

This session will also introduce attendees to the Cyber Choices programme and will provide:

• An overview to parents and carers on what cybercrime is. 

• What the risks to young people are.

• How the Cyber Choices programme supports at-risk individuals. 

• How you can refer a young person into Cyber Choices.
   

Wednesday 12th March 2025          10:00 – 11:00 - Link
Tuesday 22nd April 2025                13:00 – 14:00 – Link
Thursday 15th May 2025                 16:00 – 17:00 - Link

Tuesday 10th June 2025                10:00 – 11:00 – Link
Wednesday 9th July 2025               19:00 – 20:00 – Link

Monday 8th September 2025           14:00 – 15:00 – Link
Thursday 16th October 2025           16:00 – 17:00 – Link

Tuesday 25th November 2025        10:00 – 11:00 - Link

Parents Event - Pt2 - Tools and techniques to improve the cyber security of your family

This session is suitable for parents/carers and is an opportunity to learn and ask questions regarding your child’s online world.

This session will:

• Provide advice on how to improve personal cyber security.

• Help you to identify and protect your (and your children's) key accounts.

• Identify threats and techniques that cyber criminals may use to target you / your family.

• Highlight the benefits of family accounts.

• Identify parental controls on your router.

• Signposting to useful resources.
   

Advice and guidance from the session will be in line with the Government's Stop! Think Fraud and the National Cyber Security Centres CyberAware campaign.

Wednesday 19th March 2025 10:00 – 11:00 - Link
Monday 28th April 2025          13:00 – 14:00 – Link
Thursday 22nd May 2025         16:00 – 17:00 - Link

Tuesday 17th June 2025          10:00 – 11:00 – Link
Wednesday 16th July 2025     19:00 – 20:00 – Link

Monday 15th September 2025   14:00 – 15:00 – Link
Thursday 23rd October2025  16:00 – 17:00 – Link

Tuesday 2nd December 2025    10:00 – 11:00 - Link

Mastering Number Parent Sessions

Mrs McLean will be delivering some Mastering Number Parent workshops over the next couple of weeks. Mastering Number is national program to help develop children's number sense and this will be an invaluable opportunity to experience what these sessions are like and some of the skills the children learn.

Your child will join you for the majority of the workshop, where they will show you some of the maths they do in class and you will learn how you can help at home. Following the workshop, resources will be sent home for five weeks worth of challenges.

It is really important then that each child has a relative to work with during the workshop. This can be a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, close family friend etc. If you really can't facilitate this, please let us know.

The workshops are on the following dates at 9am in the school hall. We would expect that the session would be finished by 10am.

Wednesday 12th February- Year 2

Wednesday 26th February- Year 1

Wednesday 5th March- Year R

Please complete this google form to confirm the name of the attending adult for your child's session. Each session is specific to that year group, so those with siblings will need to attend both sessions. Due to the nature of the workshop, we will unfortunately not be able to accommodate younger siblings.

These workshops have been successfully run at schools nationally so we how effective they can be in supporting parents to help their children.

Change of INSET Day

Please note that we have amended our INSET day in June. It has been moved so that the school will now be closed to children on Tuesday 24th June. This is the date for the Scholars Educational Trust conference so it was important that we aligned with them. The original date was their provisonal date.

Makaton - Sings of the week

Diary Dates

Friday 7th February: TT Rockstar / Number Day

Monday 10th February: Young Voices concert at Wembley Arena

Friday 14th February: Last day of half term and Golden Apple Assembly

Wednesday 12th February Mastering Number Parent Workshop - Year 2

Week beg: 17th February: Half term

Wednesday 26th February Mastering Number Parent Workshop - Year 1

Wednesday 26th February: Parent Consultations

Thursday 27th February: Parent Consultations

Wednesday 5th March Mastering Number Parent Workshop - Year R

Thursday 6th March: World Book Day

Friday 7th March: Bikeability - Year 4s

Monday 10th March: International Women’s Day

Friday 28th March: Eid Day

Friday 4th April: Last day of term and Golden Apple assembly

Tuesday 22nd April: INSET day