Well, we have done it! What a year we have had. You have all worked incredibly hard, both in school and during Lockdown Learning and should be incredibly proud of yourselves. Can I give a big shout out to all the parents and adults who have supported with Home Learning over the course of the year: it really has been invaluable.
Here is a snapshot of what we have been doing in school this year:
Have a lovely summer Year 4/5.
Mrs Giles-Brewster, Mrs Hird, Miss Bonar and Miss Jenkins
Child Safety Week is an annual community education campaign run by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), acting as a catalyst for thousands of safety conversations and activities UK-wide.
We help families build confidence and skills in managing the real risks to children’s safety. We want all children to have the freedom to grow and learn, safe from serious harm.
This year, Child Safety Week runs from Monday 7th to Sunday 13th June with the theme Share because you care.
Below you will find a booklet on how you can keep your child/children safe from harm.
‘Having a healthy mind is just as important as having a
healthy body’
As from September 2020 all primary school
children will learn about relationships and health.
Relationships and Health Education is a new
compulsory part of the school curriculum, which
comprises two distinct areas:
• Relationships
• Physical health and mental wellbeing
Schools will have a lot of freedom to decide how to
teach the new curriculum but must teach in a way
that is:
• Appropriate for your child’s age and development
stage.
• Sensitive to the needs and religious backgrounds of the children in your child’s school.
The current curriculum has not been updated for 20
years. So much change has happened since then.
Children need to learn what is relevant to them and
the world they are growing up in.
The new Relationships and Health Education
curriculum is designed to:
• Help all children grow up healthy, happy and safe.
• Give all children the knowledge to make informed
decisions about their wellbeing, health and
relationships.
• Support all children to manage the challenges and
opportunities of modern Britain.
• Prepare all children for a successful adult lives.
The Relationships part of the new curriculum will
teach the children what they need to learn to build
positive and safe relationships:
• With family.
• With friends.
• Online.
Your school will teach in a way that is appropriate
to your child’s age and will look at these questions:
• What is a relationship?
• What is friendship?
• What is family?
• Who can your child look to for support?
By the time your child finishes primary school,
they will have been taught about the following in
Relationships Education:
• Family and people who care for them.
• Caring friendships.
• Respectful relationships.
• Online relationships.
• Being safe.
The physical health and mental wellbeing part of
the new curriculum will teach the children how to:
• Make good decisions about their own health and
wellbeing.
• Recognise issues in themselves.
• Recognise issues in others.
• Seek support as early as possible when issues arise.
By the time your child finishes primary school,
they will have been taught about the following in
Physical health and mental wellbeing:
• Mental wellbeing.
• Internet safety and harms.
• Physical health and fitness.
• Healthy eating.
• Facts about drugs, alcohol and drugs and the risks
associated with them.
• Health and prevention of illness.
• Basic first aid.
• Changes to the adolescent body.
If you want to know more about what will be
taught as part of the new Relationships and Health
Education curriculum, then please take a look at the attached document regarding what the new currciulum looks like for your child at Dunn Street Primary.
You can also look online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/
relationships-sex-and-health-education-guidesfor-
schools
Some schools may have already started to
teach Relationships and Health Education and all schools will be required to teach the curriculum from September 2021.
As a parent, you teach your child important lessons
about:
• Healthy relationships.
• How to look after themselves.
• Staying safe.
The new curriculum respects and values what you
teach your child.
What your child’s school teaches will complement
and reinforce what you teach. To make sure this
happens…
• We, as your child’s school, must teach in a way that
reflects the age and religious background of the
pupils.
• We must consult you as a parent when developing and
renewing their policies on Relationships and Health
Education.
• We must publish our policies on Relationships and
Health Education online, and make them available to
you free of charge.
You can express your opinions as a parent.
You cannot withdraw your child from any part of the
Relationships and Health Education curriculum.
It is important for ALL children to be taught the
content on such essential matters like friendships
and keeping safe.
There are separate rules on withdrawing a child
from Sex Education.
Sex education is separate from the Relationships
and Health curriculum.
You can withdraw your child from some or all of the
lessons on Sex Education. The head teacher must
grant your request to withdraw your child.
But before making a request, please:
• Ask your child’s school about what will be taught in
Sex Education, and when.
• Remember that the science curriculum in all
maintained schools includes content on human
development, which includes human reproduction.
There is no right for a parent to withdraw their child from the science curriculum.
We are asking that you attend our RSHE virtual question and answer session on Monday 24th May 2021 at 9.30AM VIA ZOOM. A parenthub will be sent out with all of the details for joining, so please look out for this letter.
For now we ask you to take a look at our overview of the changes at Dunn Street Primary School by viewing the documents below.
On Friday you got sent home with a tube from Google and it tells you to ‘Build Your Legend.’ Some of you will have experienced playing the Interland game before. You can always play it again here: https://beinternetawesome.
Well, we have got there Year 4/5! Our last week of home learning before we are all back together on Monday has finally been completed! You have been absolute superstars with your effort, resilience and hard-work, and have learnt so many new skills over the last two months. You should be very proud of your efforts, and how mature you have shown yourself to be. Well done!
Our Reading Plus Superstars are: Emily, Jacob, Brandon, Summer, Sophie and Isabella.
Our Lexia Superstars are: Isobelle, Shane, Leo, Finley, Brandyn, Declan and Hylton
Our Oddizzi Scoreboard has been heating up this week!
I would like to give a big shout out to all the parents and carers at home who have supported our children with their learning over the last two months. It really has been worth it!
I absolutely cannot wait to welcome back into school on Monday. In the meantime, here are a few of our highlights over the last two months:
Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday!
Mrs Giles-Brewster
Hi everyone,
We made it! Our last week of home learning is here! As this is a special week (it is World Book Day on Friday, and we are back in school on the 8th!), we are going to do things a little differently. On Friday we are having a screen-free day: which means that all activities set will be ones which do not require a laptop/computer/screen. Because of this, our last Google Meet will be on Thursday, and this will be a celebration of all the amazing learning we, as a class, have done over the last 8 weeks.
If you would like a home learning pack for this week, please could you email me at [email protected] and I will prepare one which will be ready for collection after 2 p.m. tomorrow from the school office.
Before we set off on our last week, I would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to all the adults who have been involved in our home learning journey over the last two months. Your support, time and perseverance with what has been a really difficult period has been invaluable.
Thank You
Mrs Giles-Brewster
Hi everyone,
We have made it! Another week of home learning done, and just one more to go! Whoop! We haven’t let this slow us down though: this week, we have investigated the effects of sugary drinks on our teeth (with some really rather shocking results!); we have created our own rainforest dioramas for our Geography topic; we have explored the planet Pandora with some super setting descriptions; understanding how to read and compare negative numbers in Maths; found out that our bodies are perfect instruments in Music and so much more!
My Lexia superstars this week are: Carson, Isobelle, Shane, Finley, Joseph, Declan and Hylton!
My Reading Plus stars are: Emily, Jacob, Brandon, Summer, Sophie, Isabella and Keira!
Our Oddizzi leader board is heating up! Joseph is now in the lead with an amazing 4914 points, having completed a superb 28 quizzes!
Here are some of the highlights from this week’s learning:
Well done everyone, you have all been absolute stars! Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Giles-Brewster
Hi everyone,
Hope you all had a lovely, relaxing and peaceful half term! I found it went a little too fast! Here is our Learning Plan for this week. As usual, all resources will be available in the Google Classroom by 8:00 that day. Our Google Meets are continuing as before, between 11:00 – 12:00 daily. Home Learning packs, which cover the same objectives as those taught within the Google Classroom, will be available for collection from the office from 2 o’clock onwards on Monday 22nd.
If you have any questions or need any further information, please email me or contact the school office.
Many thanks,
Mrs Giles-Brewster
Hi Everyone,
Well, we have done it! What a super half term we have had! Well done to everyone for your positivity, smiles and all your hard-work over the last six weeks. You have all been absolute superstars! Enjoy your half term: take time to relax; enjoy the snow and recharge your batteries!
Here’s a snapshot of everything we have been up to this half term in Year 4/5:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH2MM64Tjoc?feature=youtu]
Mrs Giles-Brewster
Safer Internet Day 2021 celebrates the amazing range of information and opportunities online, and its potential to inform, connect and inspire us, whilst also looking at how young people can separate fact from fiction.
The campaign focuses on how we can decide what to trust online, supporting young people to question, challenge and change the online world for the better. It will explore how influence, persuasion and manipulation can impact young people’s decisions, opinions and what they share online.
The day will also look at the emotional impact navigating a misleading online world can have on young people and why it is important to create a supportive, critical and questioning culture online that encourages debate and discussion. We want to give young people the skills to support one another, and the strategies to spot and speak out against harmful and misleading content online.
In order to decide on a theme that was important to young people we spoke to them about the types of content they see online and found fake news and inaccurate content to come up often. Young people said they saw:
- ‘I see alot of Fake News content, alot of fake celebrity gossip, fake gossip (general)’
- ‘Adverts on webpages showing celebrities with extreme weight loss transformations and stuff like that.’
- ‘Adverts and pop ups or even occaisionally strangers messages and such.’
- ‘Ppl on tiktok making up news, conspiracy theories…’
Through Safer Internet Day 2021 we will look at why inaccurate content exists, where it comes from, and what young people can do in response.
We know that the issues of misinformation and ‘fake news’ do not solely affect young people, but that these issues do have a great impact on how young people feel about their time online.
We want to help equip young people with the skills they need to spot inaccurate content, which can sometimes be a complex task. Once young people feel more comfortable separating fact from fiction it is important that we then help them to take the next steps in helping to create an internet full of trustworthy and reliable information.
The online world is a great source of information for young people and adults alike, and opportunities to research, learn new facts or skills, and even broaden viewpoints are extremely important to all internet users. The internet is also an important way for young people to build positive relationships – to play, interact and share their lives with their peers. As they navigate these social spaces, they are constantly making decisions about who and what to trust online in the context of playing games together and socialising online. Safer Internet Day gives young people the chance to build the skills they need to be able to make the best decisions as they navigate an online world where everything is not always as it seems.
We invite everyone to join us, and Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe, to help create a better internet.
Join us TODAY to help us break a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ TITLE
Step 1 – Visit 2simple.com/GWR
Ask your children to visit this webpage between 10am GMT 9th February and 9:30am GMT 10th February 2021 and click “Make a pledge”. (Please be aware 10am may be a busy time, so aim to space your attempts throughout the 24 hour period.)
Step 2 – Make your pledge
Learners can add further drawings or text to their pledge and click save.
Returning for another year, Liverpool FC will be joining us for a live event (1;30pm) this Safer Internet Day to talk about the theme of reliability online. With their support, this important topic around online safety will reach as many young people as possible. This event will take place on the UK Safer Internet Centre Youtube Channel.
These stories below are some of our favourites in school and are great highlight the importance of internet safety.
Remember to always follow our SMART rules. How SMART are you?
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