Dear Parents and Carers,

 

There’s a lot of excitement about the Christmas market later.  We hope to see as many of you here as possible.

 

INSET day

Friday February 9th is an INSET day due to staff training.  Small & Tall will be closed too.

 

Online safety advice

Parents - Xmas devices

As Xmas is approaching many children and young people will be asking for new devices. It's important that parents think carefully about these devices and the parental features that are available. It's equally important parents think about what the device will be used for, e.g. an all-singing-all-dancing smartphone when it will only be used for messaging and the odd phone call, would a lesser phone be better?

 

Internet Matters has put together a couple of really good guides for parents:

How to choose the right phone for your child - HERE and

Children's tech guide 2023 - which has guides on a huge range of tech from laptops to gaming consoles, smart TV's and much more. The guides can be found HERE.

 

Safeguarding Audit

On Wednesday, we had a Trust safeguarding audit.  The team was very thorough and asked the children and staff lots of questions.  I believe that some parents met some of the team too.  I’m thrilled to tell you that the day was a success.  It is very evident in school that safeguarding is important to everyone.  Every child they spoke to, knew what to do if something happened.  They knew that any adult in school was a trusted adult.  Many knew the childline number and all of them knew that it was better to talk to a trusted adult than keep something bottled up inside of them.

On a personal note, I’m so pleased that the information I send about online safety helps at home along with the various other updates that I send you.

 

Don’t forget that from Monday, I’ll be ‘out of action’.  For any problems please contact your class teacher.  For more urgent issues please contact Mrs Dean or Mrs Hartley.  As I won’t be in school, if you have any safeguarding worries about a child, please contact Mrs Hartley or the Staffordshire Safeguarding Board on 0300 111 8007.

 

Thank you for your continued support and especially your kind words this week.

Take care and stay safe.

Mrs Wilmer