Keep up to date with all the latest news happening at Moston Fields!

• Complete our Remote Learning Survey - have your say!

  Tue 09 Feb 2021 S. Murray

  Please use the link below to access the survey for feedback on our current offer of remote learning. 

   

  https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9TNL9LG

   

  In advance, thank you for helping us with this!

• Information to support Parents and Carers for Safer Internet Day

  Tue 09 Feb 2021 S. Murray

   

  Please see the Newsletter section for the following resources (these have also been sent out via Class Dojo)

  - Family Online Safety Plan

  - Conversation Starters 

• Safer Internet Day - Let's Create #AnInternetWeTrust

  Tue 09 Feb 2021 S. Murray

  All children have access to the internet whether it is via a phone, laptop, tablet, gaming device or even a TV! 

  If we want to create and Internet we can trust it is vital that parents and carers take the following steps to help your child be safe on-line:

  1) Make sure that any privacy setting and all parental controls are set at the highest level (please see links to help with this below)
  2) Have conversations about what is seen or heard about on-line - help children to question and not accept information or behaviours that are wrong.
  3) Make a Family Safety On-line Plan that sets out expectations and time limits for being on-line 
  4) Check-in with what your child is doing on-line - if they have a phone or gaming device, check regularly
  5) Talk about what to do if things go wrong or they feel uncomfortable - make it easy for them to talk to you about it.
  6) Watch for signs of changing behaviours 

  It is hard at the moment but as much as you can - get outside and encourage children to be be active away from their screens as much as you can. 

  Here are some great links - PLEASE USE THEM :-)

  This is a really visual website (and trusted) where the adult selects their internet provider, they are then shown step by step how to ensure their internet is safe for children. 

  https://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/broadband-mobile/ 

  This link has lots of advice around devices and internet use. 

  https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-centre/parents-and-carers

  I will be posting other guidance documents to support you soon. Upper KS2 parents and carers will also be getting additional information to support them via e-mail. 

  All the above information will be posted on our Class Dojo and also e-mailed out. 

  This is a belts and braces communication approach - apologies that some parents get things 3x!! 

• Access to loan devices to support home learning

  Thu 04 Feb 2021 S. Murray

  Dear Parents/Carers,

   

  As you may have read in the recent school newsletter, or spotted in the national press (!), we have been working hard behind the scenes to secure as many computing devices for our school as possible.

  Miss Cooke has been liaising with the Department of Education, local charities and even the Daily Mail to access these devices. As a result of these efforts, we now have 30 laptops and 5 tablets (with a further 18 on order). Whilst this is a great result, we will be continuing to look for other avenues to access devices as this is nowhere near enough to match the need in our school.

  It is important to note that these laptops and tablets have been given to the school on the understanding that they are the school’s property to be loaned out to families during periods of lockdown or year group/bubble closures. At the end of these periods, they will be returned to school and made use of in school by all children.

  To identify where these devices are needed, school has undertaken a number of formal and informal consultations with parents and carers. During the first national lockdown, we started to create a list of need based on conversations with parents. We then conducted a whole-school parent/carer survey on Remote Learning in October of last year – unfortunately we only had 98 responses to this survey. We have also been collating information gathered from the weekly teacher phone calls, engagement in remote learning activities and Class Dojo messages with parents/carers in this current lockdown period to identify where there is a need for devices.

  Using this information, we have identified children who: have no access to any device; are limited to using a phone to access work; have to share devices between children; are reliant on paper packs. We have then also prioritised year 5 and 6 children from this list, as they are the year groups that have access to fully remote on-line editable learning via Google Classroom.

  Miss Cooke has started to contact families to loan devices to them for the remainder of this lockdown period. If you feel that your family would benefit from a device, and have not been contacted by Miss Cooke, then please contact your child’s class teacher through Class Dojo and we will add your child’s name to the list.

  Many thanks for all your support with Remote Learning. We hope that these devices will help to make a difference to families and we will continue to work with external agencies to try and secure as many more devices as possible, as we understand the need is far greater than what has been allocated so far.

   

  Kind Regards,

   

  Stephen Shankland

  Deputy Head