New Social Media Apps

6th March 2023A Hearn

There are two new social media apps that are not appropriate for our young children to use which parents/carers need to be aware of.

The first app is called NGL (Not Gonna Lie) which is an anonymous question and answer site. The National Online Safety team have produced an information leaflet identifying the risks and some advice for parents and carers.

The second app is called Likee which is a video sharing app which is similar to tiktok and very risky for children. The Qustodio website have shared some information about the app and its risks:

Why the Likee app is dangerous for kids!

Likee is an unsafe environment for children, even if they’re just browsing, but especially if they’re uploading their own content. Unlike with other social platforms like TikTok and Instagram, you cannot make your Likee account private. This means that young children can easily create an account, and start interacting with strangers in seconds, in comments sections or by uploading their own videos.

For every innocent video of a dance trend, or recipe instructions, you’ll find yourself swiping through a landslide of inappropriate content uploaded to the Likee feed. In Qustodio testing, we browsed Likee extensively, but even within the first few minutes of use, we were met with:

Overtly sexual imagery and suggestive language, Videos of minors engaging in suggestive acts, Violence, Inappropriate language, Insulting and derogatory comments on videos of minors, Suggestive comments on videos of minors

Plus, there’s no way of telling who’s behind the profile when interacting with users on Likee, and the gifting system means younger users could be easily coerced, bribed, or manipulated.

 

 

The Great Fellgate Book Swap 2023

6th March 2023S Graham

As part of our book swap celebrations we asked for children to donate any unwanted books. We hoped that we would have lots of books brought into school and that every single child could then choose a new book to take home and enjoy.

We were all blown away by the amount of books we kindly received. The children loved picking their new books and it was fantastic to see all of the happy faces throughout the day.

With the remaining books we will have a permanent book swap display in our school where children are free to take a book whenever they like. We also have used some of the books to make a brand new outdoor reading books. This will allow even more children to read at break times and lunchtimes.

Once again, thank you to everyone who donated books.

Mr Graham

World Book Day in Chestnuts

3rd March 2023G Mills

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Chestnuts came dressed as their favourite book characters. Don’t we look amazing?

We also chose new books as part of our whole book swap.

During the afternoon, we entered a competition to design a new book token and Blossoms class visited us. We read stories to each other; it was lots of fun!

World Book Day in Cherries

3rd March 2023H Warburton

Cherries had a fantastic World Book Day. We started the day by visiting Willows to share stories with each other. We then visited the book swap to all choose a new book to take home. In class we created bookmarks using collages of some of our favourite books we then created bunting with inspirational reading quotes.

World Book Day in Maples!

3rd March 2023S Wilkinson

The children have enjoyed World Book Day today. For some of our children they chose to dress as their favourite book characters. They have enjoyed exploring and reading new books and took part in our whole school book swap.

Have a look at how much fun they had!

Our Week in Acorns

17th February 2023A Malone

Exploring insects and matching to the small world minibeasts. We looked closely using magnifying glasses, and counted how many legs each creature had. We also looked at how they were similar to or different from each other.

 

Year 1 retold some Bible stories in RE. We read the story about Jesus feeding the five thousand, and then discussed why Jesus is so important to Christians.

 

Investigating length in Maths. We found objects that were short, long and of equal length, making sure we used the correct mathematical vocabulary when talking about what we had done.

 

Our ‘Long Ago’ topic timeline, showing how toys have changed from the 1970’s to now. Our grown-ups from home and adults in school sent in pictures and information about their favourite toys when they were children.