Learning to Stay Safe Online.
So far this term we have been learning about how to stay safe online. We now live in a very technological age and more than ever our children need to think about online safety. Here are a few photos of them playing a simple but effective game of snakes and ladders, in...
Online Safety Notice for Parents/Carers
There have been reports in the media regarding an inappropriate video on TikToc which involves a very graphic suicide. If you have any children using tiktok would you please take some discussing the traumatic effects of viewing materials such as this on their...
DIGITAL SAFETY DURING COVID-19: SAFEGUARDING FROM HARMFUL INFLUENCES ONLINE
DIGITAL SAFETY DURING COVID-19: SAFEGUARDING FROM HARMFUL INFLUENCES ONLINE The impact of COVID-19 means that most of us will be at home for an extended period and are likely to be spending increasing amounts of time online. The online world is a necessity for...
An amazing response to the cooking/computing challenge!
A huge well done and thank you to everyone who took part in last week's whole school challenge, the response was fantastic! You have certainly produced some mouth-watering dishes! It is wonderful to see how many of you have been learning to cook with your families and...
Windy Nook’s Top Chef Challenge!
This week's whole school home learning challenge brings together cooking and computing! Computational thinking skills are very important to support our children's learning in computing, and a great way to develop these is to think of how we use algorithms in our...
Are you a budding photographer?
Are you a budding photographer? Then the Windy Nook Primary School Photography Competition is for you! The winning photographs will be collated into a fabulous Windy Nook Calendar for September 2020. Parents and carers will be able to download the calendar....
Online Safety Parent Workshop: Useful Information
This afternoon, we were lucky enough to have two visitors from the NSPCC to deliver a parent workshop. A huge thank you to the parents who could make it and for those who couldn't, there were some very useful tips and links shared. Parental controls - all O2 stores...
Typing up the Scoop!
Following on from last week's investigation - the Beeches have converted their notes into newspaper articles. Please take a minute to read through some of them. They are very good and quite mysterious too! Abi L Alex I Newspaper template alexamdragardner newspaper...
Warhorse Research
The Children in Oaks and Elms have been working on Michael Morprugo's book Warhorse over the past few weeks. Today, they used the chromebooks and printed fact sheets to research the use of horses during World War 1 with the aim to write a non-chronological report on...
Minecraft Coding
This week Tulips have begun coding in their computing lessons. Using the Hour of Code website the children used coding blocks to make characters in a Minecraft world move. The children thoroughly enjoyed writing their own code. If any keen coders would like to...
Minecraft Coding in Bluebells
This term in ICT, we are learning how to code to build and debug programs. The children had an introduction to the world of coding today on the website hour of code. They followed instructions to create a series of steps to make their game work. The children all...
Purple Mash Skills in Owls
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. The children have been using their ICT skills to use the Purple Mash program. First the children logged on to the computer using their...