Online Safety

We’ve had a really productive week focussing on online safety. Many classes joined the live lessons and children had two detailed online safety focussed assemblies looking at scams, online relationships, strangers and personal data sharing.

Posts will be on class pages, an overview of what has been covered or produced this week:

YR – found out about smarty the penguin and child friendly searches. They learned a signed tag telling them to stop, click and think, stop and tell adults.

Y1 – found out about the pop up gremlin through stories and learned to ‘stop, close, tell’.

Y2 – explored different scam scenarios, they explored what to share and not share, they discussed trusted adults and learned about what to trust and not trust.

Y3 – discussed how to stay safe online and what to do with a problem pop up or something unusual.

Y4 – learned about scams from the live lesson, they discussed how to keep themselves safe and what to do with a problem. The also found out about phishing.

Y5 – focussed on online relationships, how do we know people are who they say they are, ways of communicating politely. They have created posters about their learning.

Y6 – found out about phishing, they found this fascinating and have learned lots about how easy it is to become caught. They have produced comic strips using storyboard to showcase their online safety learning from this week.

Celebrating Success. Book Worm 14.2.25

Well done to everyone who received awards or shoutouts this week, we are very proud of you.

Today we celebrated reading in our celebration assembly, with praise for lots of children for their reading at home and reading throughout the curriculum in school.

  • Class R – Kai
  • Class 1 – Hattie
  • Class 2 – Henry
  • Class 3 – Ilaria
  • Class 4 – Leo
  • Class 5 – Olivia
  • Class 6 – Nate

Congratulations to all our chosen Book Worms, your reading at home and school was excellent this week.

Remember to keep up those good reading habits.

Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 14.2.25

Well done to everyone who received awards or shout outs today. We are very proud of you.

  • Class R – Oliver L for always demonstrating our school values, being ready to learn and extending his learning. 
  • Class 1 – Robyn for her super attitude to independent work, always pushing herself to do more.
  • Class 2 – Emilie for her fantastic descriptive poetry and working hard to be creative. Well done.
  • Class 3 – Myles for working hard to improve his writing and handwriting, excellent news well done.
  • Class 4 – Sennen for being an amazing member of Hodnet school who will be sadly missed. We know he will spread joy and happiness in his new class and will be an asset to his new school. Best wishes for the future.
  • Class 5 – Finn for trying very hard in all areas, especially in maths and for putting up his hand to contribute more.
  • Class 6 – Ollie for his hardworking attitude, perseverance and much improved reading fluency. Well done.
  • KS1/EY Headteacher award – William in class R for being a kind friend and a super learner.
  • KS2 Headteacher award – Amelia in class 3 for being organised, helpful and a kind and thoughtful friend.
  • Lunchtime award – Thomas in class 1 for being polite.
  • Raffle ticket – Rowan in class 1.

Weekly House Points 14.2.25

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls = 138

Badgers = 148

Squirrels = 158

Foxes = 162

Well done to the Foxes  team this week.

 

Rock Steady

Rock Steady lessons will be on Mondays after half term, we have made this change to enable us to keep Dan as our school band leader, as he will no longer work on Fridays. The lessons will start earlier on Mondays, with one band being asked to attend school ready for an 8.30am lesson. The Rock Steady team will be providing information about this directly to parents. To my knowledge this is Band C, also known as The banana splits! Children in Band C should be at school ready for the 8.30am start on Mondays, starting the first week back after half term. Please can children come in via the main school lobby, Mrs O’Connor will let them in and register them. If you have any queries regarding this please see the Rock Steady team. Thank you for your cooperation.

Mrs Lyall.

Internet safety enrichment week next week

Next week we will be covering this essential safeguarding element of our curriculum. Children will be off their usual timetable in the afternoons to cover internet safety. The internet is a powerful, rich resource that we rely upon for so many systems and functions in our daily life, however it has many potential dangers that we must educate our children about in order to keep them safe.

Safer internet day is on Tuesday which we plan to mark through our safety assembly and sharing some resources based on the theme of too good to be true, protecting from internet scams. We will ensure that we are covering the dangerous elements of online gaming and/or use of chat rooms, as some of our children have shared that they have played against and/or chatted to people that they didn’t know. This is something that we we regularly refer to as being dangerous, however we feel that more reminders are needed to highlight the potential dangers of this to make families and children more aware. Through our online safety teaching we aim to deepen the children’s understanding of the potential for scams, risks and the potential for harm. We aim to  make them see that unfortunately not everyone is who they say they are, and that our children need to know the skills to keep themselves safe. 

Some links and information about safer internet day are below:

Safer Internet Day 2025 – UK Safer Internet Centre

Safer Internet Day 2025: Teaching resources – BBC Teach

Safer Internet Day 2025 | Internet Matters

 

Our computing subject website page and safeguarding website page have further useful links.

Half term activities

Some activities/events that we have been made aware of are:

Love of Oswestry Festival – We have a lot of free half term events happening in Oswestry as part of our Love Oswestry Festival. These include puppet workshops, Drumming sessions, Felt workshops and lots of family activities all leading up to our lantern festival on the Saturday that may interest your pupils and their families.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ford Hall Farm – Marvellous Mushrooms Trail. Link for more information

Puppet team workshops at Childs Ercall Church

Places advertising ‘kids eat free’ or similar deals:

 

Staffing update

Mrs Huxtable will be reducing her working hours after February half term from full time to three days per week for the rest of the academic year. Miss Davies will join the teaching team as a job share with Mrs Huxtable in class 4. From Monday 24th February, the teaching pattern in class 4 will be as follows:

  • Mrs Huxtable – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • Miss Davies – Thursday and Friday.

Miss Davies has taken on a Teaching Assistant role mainly in class 3, she will do this alongside her class 4 Teaching role, meaning she remains in school full time. 

Miss Manton returned to school this week to resume her full time teaching post in class 2. 

Mrs Jones has reduced her hours this term, she now works as a Teaching Assistant in a range of classes four days per week, Tuesday to Friday.

 

Weekly House Points 7.2.25

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls = 130

Badgers = 132

Squirrels = 127

Foxes = 127

Well done to the Badgers team this week.

 

Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 7.2.25

Well done to everyone who received awards or shout outs today. We are very proud of you.

  • Class R – Isaac for making fantastic progress in reading and writing. Well done we are every proud of you.
  • Class 1 – Hattie for her fantastic effort in every lesson and always contributing and persevering with her work.
  • Class 2 – Phoebe for working really hard in maths and persevering when things are tricky. Well done!
  • Class 3 – Isabelle S for always being an active and enthusiastic learner, a role model to others.
  • Class 4 – Wren for always persevering with her work and trying hard to improve with her editing work. Wren quietly gets on with her work and always takes on advice, well done.
  • Class 5 – Millie for really trying hard in class, concentrating on her work and putting up her hand to contribute, well done, keep it up!
  • Class 6 – Tilly for increased confidence and showing initiative. A super attitude, well done.
  • KS1/EY Headteacher award – Isla in class 1 for being a kind friend and a super learner.
  • KS2 Headteacher award – Erin in class 4 for being a kind and thoughtful friend to others.
  • Lunchtime award – Jake in class 1 for showing our school value of respect.
  • Raffle ticket – Hattie in class 1.