Category: Academic
Class Assemblies
20th November 18
Year 2 and 3 class assemblies are in full swing! Last week we had the pleasure of meeting Florence Nightingale and Julius Caesar. We also saw the book ‘James and the Giant Peach’ spring to life on stage.
Our Year 6 School Reporter Annika writes: “Today we watched a brilliant assembly by our Year 3 Romans and Celts. It was a wonderful play with lots of humour and acting. The assembly concluded with a song all about how Britain was governed by the Roman Empire. We all learnt a lot about the Romans and loved the assembly!”
This week we enjoyed assemblies about the world’s weather and the different countries in the UK.
Year 6 Play
25th June 18
Year 6 produced some highly amusing and dramatic moments in their performance of Camelot.
The children have been working extremely hard on their rehearsals, and all their efforts have been rewarded. Everyone agreed that their singing, acting and dancing was on par with Broadway! The cast left their audience in awe at this tremendous achievement. Well done to Year 6 and their fabulous teachers for an amazing show.
E-safety Training
10th January 18
Childnet International conducted E-safety and digital resilience workshops with Upper School pupils, parents and staff. In light of the recent Children’s Commissioner’s report highlighting the effects of social media on 8 to 12-year-olds and its influence on children’s wellbeing, Channel 5 News came into school to film the workshop with Year 6.
Research suggests that children as young as 8 years old use social media like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Although age restrictions of social media platforms are set to 13 years and older, here at Finton we therefore strongly believe that it is never too early to start with E-safety training. As part of a wider initiative to address online safety, we hosted E-safety training, in partnership with Childnet International. Somewhat a coincidence, the Children’s Commissioner’s Life in ‘Likes’ report, published on the same day as the training took place on 4th January 2018, stressed that Year 6 and 7 (11-12 years old) is a crucial age for internet awareness training.
It is important to acknowledge that our children are exposed to an unprecedented amount of technology from birth, and that even parents’ own usage of social media may affect their children significantly. Therefore, what previously only seemed to have been a commonly discussed issue in secondary schools, has now gained a lot of attention in primary schools and from parents of young children alike.
At Finton we teach Upper School children how to handle digital friendships online and be aware of the dangers involving online predators and cyber-bullying from an early age. For example children may not be aware that they are putting themselves at risk when posting an image with their school uniform in front of their home; but not only does this show where the child lives but also which school she/he attends. Therefore, a lack of awareness of the dangers, may lead to children revealing personal information on social media, without knowing that this may land in the wrong hands.
To read the Commissioner’s report please use the link below: