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Wed 12 Apr 2023

E Safety advice from the Stay Safe Partnership at LCC

Inappropriate Content Online Advice for Parents

Over the last few months, we have seen an increase in the number of schools reporting that students, while at home, have accessed content which is not always appropriate, some of which has been quite scary or upsetting.

While there is no perfect way to eliminate this risk, we feel that there are things parents and carers can do to support their children online, reduce the risk or manage it after the fact. Remember to keep lines of communication open with your children and young people. Just like we ask them how their day was at school and what they got up to it is equally important to have this conversation about their Online lives. If you can keep technology out of the bedrooms and private spaces this is also an effective tool in safeguarding our children.

Here are some more practical steps parents and carers can follow:

1. Contact their Internet Service Provider (ISP): Companies that provide broadband such as BT, Sky and Virgin, offer free protection for parents and carers. They can filter your internet connection directly.

2. YouTube is a fantastic resource, but not all the content is appropriate for children and not all YouTube channels are made for young audiences. YouTube has an app just for children – YouTube Kids – but many people don't realise that the main YouTube app has a restricted mode.

3. Parental Controls for Devices - https://www.internetmatters.org/.../smartphones-and.../

4. Games consoles have features that can limit what games they can play based on the age ratings and can even turn off certain features to allow gaming to be a little safer. To learn more about these features visit https://www.internetmatters.org/parental.../gaming-consoles/

5. Games are also rated based on the content; not how difficult they are. 18 rated games can have very graphic violence, adult language and themes, sexual content, and horror elements. Learn a bit more about appropriate games by visiting https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/.../gaming-whats.../.

It's important to remember that no filters or controls are 100% effective so make sure your child knows that they can, and should, talk to someone if they see or hear anything upsetting online so we can offer them some reassurance. This information from Thinkuknow might be useful https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/.../Im-worried-my-primary.../

Reading Ambassadors

Wed 12 Apr 2023

Congratulations to our Reading Ambassadors: Dylan, Ellie, Stephanie, Oliver, Emme, Ethan, Freya, Oona, Esme, Freddy, Logan and Phoebe for applying and being chosen to receive 10 copies of The World’s Worst Children 1 by David Walliams and Tony Ross to read and review. Thank you to you all. The publishers were impressed by your application to get these copies of the book for school.

Year 6 Visit to the Houses of Parliament

Wed 12 Apr 2023

Our Year 6 class visited the Houses of Parliament for a guided tour in March 2023. We had an amazing day.

Rainbow Themed Day

Fri 02 Jul 2021

We hosted a Rainbow Themed Day on the 2^nd July 2021 to raise money for our local NHS Trust. Donations went to the community nurses based in Sleaford that also cover Billinghay. This meant that funds raised would be spent locally and benefit staff/patients in the Sleaford/Billinghay area. Classes in school carried out work on the NHS.

Spiritual Opportunity at St Michael's Church

Fri 21 May 2021

Thank you to Rev Holt for providing our pupils with the opportunity to decorate a stone which they took to St Michael's Church and set out in the shape of a cross. Some had personal messages to loved ones who had passed away. Some were linked to lockdown and gave thanks to key-workers and some had our Christian Values on them.

Privacy Guides written by our Junior Online Safety Officers

Tue 11 May 2021

Two Privacy guides have been written by 3 of our Junior Online Safety Officers (Jake, Faith and Phoebe) who have focused on Snapchat and TikTok to create guides as to how to keep these social media accounts private. To view them please click on the Key Information tab, then e Safety and JOSO.

Update on School Closure information following the PMs announcement on Monday 4th January

Mon 04 Jan 2021

We will be closed to all pupils tomorrow, the 5th January. We plan to open on Wednesday 6th to all pupils who have parents who are key workers and to those who are classified as vulnerable pupils.

We will begin delivering remote learning to all other pupils from Wednesday 6th January.

Lockdown Physical Activity Champions

Fri 04 Dec 2020

All our classes do the daily mile at school and we encourage our pupils to do the 10, 20 and 30 mile lockdown challenge. This is part of the Couch 2 Tokyo challenge which has been set by Carres Outreach to get schools to walk the equivalent of the distance from Sleaford to Tokyo.

These 3 girls were the first to complete the 10 mile challenge. Congratulations girls

World Rainbow Day

Wed 07 Oct 2020

World Rainbow Day, originally created by 10 year old Tilly Hatfield Edgar from Lincolnshire, is a day lead by children to encourage everyone to wear colourful clothing, in rainbow shades, worn as a tribute to our incredible key workers and the many other wonderful people within our communities, who have joined forces to help during this truly heart-breaking and unprecedented time.

It will also act as a symbol to show our love to the many families that have sadly lost loved ones to Covid-19.

This year it took place on Friday 2^nd October 2020. All our pupils came to school dressed in rainbow coloured bright clothing. They carried out a variety of activities in classes (some of which are shown below and more on the class pages).

The children also donated £1 to a special charity initiative called ‘Design Havens for Heroes’ which has been set up to show our gratitude to some of our amazing key workers in the NHS, who have been on the very front line over the last few months.