Welcome Year 7 Parents & Carers 2016
Instrumental Lessons • Lessons during the school day 20-30 minutes, on a rotational system • Violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, recorder, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, tenor horn, trombone, tuba, piano, voice, drums and percussion, guitar (electric/acoustic/classical/bass). • Financial support is available from Hertfordshire CC and Essex CC, upon application. • Download application form from Performing Arts pages on website.
Year 7 ‘ Everyone a player ’ The LEAP Music Strategy • Instruments started in classroom lessons, Spring Term. • Apply for LEAP group lessons to start in Summer Term.
Safeguarding Duty on Schools • “Keeping Children Safe in Education” 2016 • To have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism” • Four requirements 1. Risk assessment 2. Partnership working 3. Staff training 4. Internet access protection
The prevent duty – What we do • Assemblies to raise student awareness • Student voice activity to explore students’ perception of risks • Information on school website • Monitoring of web filtering • Lessons in the PSHE programme Designated senior person for any concerns: James Dyke jad@leventhorpe.net
Homework • To get to SMHW use the LINK on school website via MOODLE • All students are given an office 365 account when they start. They can use this account to login to SMHW. • You can see all the home learning on the site even if you haven’t got your login • Staff are good at putting home learning on so you can depend on it • Parents and students have individual logins
E-Safety for Parents • Internet is increasingly present in student’s lives – harder to monitor • Students are always one step ahead of us • Striving towards more privacy • Consequences are frightening for all • Advice available on school website https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/# http://www.childnet.com/resources/know-it-all-for- parents http://parentinfo.org/
Social media use and concerns GUESS THE APP!!! Yik KIK Yak ASK FM VOXER Vine Snapchat Shots of me Whisper
Yik Yak : Yik Yak says the app “acts like a local bulletin board for your area by showing the most recent posts from other users around you. It allows anyone to connect and share information with other users without having to know them.” Kids can share anonymous messages or “yaks” within a 1.5 miles radius. Anonymous and cyberbullying go hand in hand. Yik Yak has made the news recently because of its anonymous cyberbullying capabilities and use. Users are able to chat anonymously with people in their geographic vicinity by enabling the GPS feature of this app.
Emotional Wellbeing: Developing Mindfulness ‘Mindfulness means knowing directly what is going on inside and outside ourselves, moment by moment .’ Becoming more aware of the present moment can help us enjoy the world around us more and understand ourselves better. Mindfulness evening: 28 th November
Any further questions? Last chance to ask any questions on the post-its.
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