Dear Parents,

February 6th was Safer Internet Day. We have taught lessons this week on social media, online safety and the digital world our children inhabit.

This link will take you to a short film and some good parental resources for helping to manage our children’s online lives.

https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/2018/sid-tv-2018/sid-2018-tv-digital-parenting-film-parents-and-carers

The following link should take you to the ParentZone website:

https://parentzone.org.uk/parents

It has useful links to many areas of online safety, including how to set up privacy settings on social media apps.

If you have any issues or worries regarding online safety or social media please do get in touch with me.

Regards
Andrew Butler

Parent governor election january 2018

A meeting will be held ahead of this residential on Wednesday 24th January in the hall 3.30pm – 4pm.  You will receive information about the residential including timings and kit lists.

A meeting ahead of this residential will be held in the school hall on Monday 29th January 3.30-4pm.  At this meeting you will receive information about the residential including timings and kit lists.

We have just been alerted that there is an app called ‘IMVU’ which is a social media app that allows the user to create an ‘avatar’ and speak to strangers.  It also pinpoints your location so that whoever you are speaking to can see where you are.  This is what the app looks like:

We would recommend that your children do not use this APP.

The Shropshire Young Thinkers Team have congratulated and thanked NJS for the amount and quality of entries they received for their competition; ‘How I would change the world in one great idea’.

I am delighted that we have three pupils who have been selected as finalists; congratulations to Abi Thompson, Henry Payne and Mabel Bowen.  They have been invited to a finalists event at the University Centre in Shrewsbury in February.

Their entries are below:

Henry Payne

Abi Thompson

Mabel Bowen