Last week, Year 5 visited the Baltic centre in Gateshead for a celebration event with Show Racism the Red Card following our Migration project. It was a fantastic day with other schools and special guests and we were very lucky to have been chosen to take part in the project with the SRTRC team.
There was even a professional photographer there – here are the pictures!
Congratulations to all our Star of the Week winners!
Congratulations Leo who won our Progress Panda this week and Eva who won the Golden Welly Award!
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Just a reminder that we have an Online Safety Parents Session on Monday 18th September starting at 2:15pm!
This is a chance for you to be updated on all online safety developments to ensure your child is staying safe online. It will also be a great opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have about online safety!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you to all parents who filled in one of our Internet Interviews for Safer Internet Day!
There were a few common themes that came out regarding what parents would like to know more about.
Please find some useful links below if you want to find out more about keeping children safe online at home:
General Rules and Information
Parental Controls
Internet Matters – Parental Controls
Social Media
Please note that the age requirement for an Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Youtube account is 13 years old. Age requirement for Whats App is 16 years old.
Internet Matters – Social Media Advice
UK Safer Internet Centre – Social Media Guides
Online Gaming
Apps and Websites Suitable for Children
Please ensure to check age recommendations before downloading apps.
Internet Matters Child Friendly Apps
Scratch or Scratch Jr App
What access to technology do children have in school?
At Toner Avenue, we have a variety of devices that children are able to use. These include iPads, Chromebooks, laptops and PCs. These devices are used in Computing lessons to learn the skills needed to become digitally literate but also across the curriculum to enhance all subjects. Some examples include using Google Maps to compare locations in Geography, using internet research to find factual information in English and taking photographs to record investigations in Science. Devices are also used for Reading Plus sessions daily.
In every class, an explicit online safety lesson is taught at the beginning of each half term. Children are reminded of the rules for staying safe online whenever they use school devices. We use anti-virus and anti-malware software in school. We also use monitoring software to track use online in school.
Year 5 really enjoyed meeting authors and BBC Radio 1 presenters Greg James and Chris Smith about their new book ‘Super Ghost’ with the National Literacy Trust! There were lots of laughs as they read us Chapter One live and we can’t wait to read more, thank you for sending our school lots of copies to enjoy!
Out of 15,000 children watching, we were chosen as one of only two schools to ask a question live, and we loved hearing Greg James’ and Chris Smith’s favourite parts of the story to write!
The updated school lunch menu for the school year 2022 – 2023. The kitchen will endeavour to follow this as closely as possible and should supplies allow.
Today Year 4 were absolutely fantastic as they hosted a parent event to show off all of the fabulous work they’d been doing during our STEM week.
The children were brilliant and showed all of the grown ups the different things they had been doing, including our Maths logic puzzles, our Science experiments and our very exciting DT Wire Buzzer Games.
Thank you to everyone who came!
Earlier in the year, Year 5 took part in a writing project with the Southbank Centre in London. Author Alexandra Sheppard started a story about two classmates, Jason and Amira, and it was our job to write chapter one of the novel ‘Mayhem at the Museum’. Other schools wrote the remaining chapters and today was our chance to hear it being read for the first time at the Tyne Theatre in Newcastle!
All of the children received their own copy of the book which contained their names in print! We loved hearing from the author and were so proud of Daisy as she took to the stage to read our opening lines. We also took part in a ‘draw a long’ with illustrator Allen Fatimaharan too!
