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Win a laptop!

Fancy winning a new computer for school and a laptop for yourself?

Heart106 has teamed up with the Victoria Centre in Nottingham to produce a bag for life and they'd like to invite our school to take part in a competition to design the bag. 

The bag for life will then be exchanged for plastic carrier bags at the Victoria Centre in July. So you’ll be helping the environment as well. All you need to do is design a picture for the bag using 3 colours - red, white and black (although HeartFM may in the process substitute colours). 

They are looking for simple but creative designs to be sent by the 22nd May 2009 (THIS FRIDAY!!)

They can be posted to Bag for Life at Heart106, City Link, Nottingham, NG2 4NG or emailed to Bagforlife@heart106.com.

The winning design will then be used on the bag – the winner will receive a brand new lap top and the school well get a new computer!

Walk to School Week

 

It's Walk to School Week this week, and Mr. Widdowson has created 4 activities in 2DIY all about safely walking to school;

WTS_safe_places_sorting - Group the safe places to cross together

WTS_safe_places_discuss - A class activity to discuss where you should cross

WTS_stop_look_listen_order - Drag the instructions into the correct order

WTS_stop_look_listen_cloze - Place the mssing words in the correct place

Pupil News 15th May

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French Teacher's Visit

Better late than never!                        

Mme Jeannon spent a very enjoyable week with us at Porchester from 27th April till 1st May and joined in our lessons - not just French!.

She is the Head Teacher in a school of a similar size to our own in the Lorraine region of France. This is in the north east of the country. We are planning to set up some letter writing and e-mail contact when we get our new classes in September.

She found some things that we do particularly interesting:

• French schools don't have assemblies but she thought they were an excellent idea.
• She was amazed at the number of laptops we have - they have only eight.
• We appear to work at a higher level in Maths than they do.
• We have a lot more interruptions in our classrooms than they do.
• French children are not allowed to bring any money to school, so she was surprised to see children with Breakfast Club money (although she thought Breakfast Club was a great idea).
• In France, no-one goes to school on a Wednesday, so she may have found it hard to work five days in a week.

Hopefully, Mrs Mead will make a return visit in October - it'll be very interesting for her to look at the similarities and differences in our education systems from an English perspective.

Reporting Cyber Bullying

On the left side of every page within the school website we have introduced a new graphic - the "report abuse" button. This button, when pressed, takes you to a website that tracks, and tackles, abuse through the use of modern technology.

If you use a messaging service - like MSN, or google talk, or Yahoo messenger, or others - you may enjoy chatting to your friends when you are sat at home. Being online is great for keeping in touch, but sometimes things happen which can make you upset. People may say nasty things to you which upset you, or you may see something that you don’t like.

If this happens, you must remember that it’s not your fault.

• ALWAYS TELL A TRUSTED ADULT straight away if you are upset or worried about something that has happened online.

• Remember to try and SAVE ANY MESSAGES that have upset you so you can show them to who you tell - they will be able to help, and they will be able to give you good advice about what else you can do. Never worry about getting in trouble - you aren’t the one who has done anything wrong.

• If you don’t want to talk to a trusted adult, you may want to tell someone else about how you feel. The "report abuse" is there for you.

• Your report goes straight to CEOP - the Child Explotation and Online Protection Centre. CEOP is run by police officers, social workers, counselors, and investigators.

The "report abuse" can be used if you feel uncomfortable with something you have seen on a computer or on a mobile phone, 

CEOP works hard to protect children and young people all over the UK and the world. Any time spent on hoax reports is time spent away from helping those really are in trouble. CEOP staff can track hoax reports, so please don’t waste our time and yours with tricks or pranks.

Parents, if you would like to find out more about how to deal with online bullying, CEOP, and the work they do, please visit the following websites;

• ThinkUKnow (8 - 10 year olds) 
• ThinkUKnow (11 - 16 year olds)
• CEOP
• Stop Cyberbullying