Living and Learning- Electrical safety
Year 5 and 6 have enjoyed a visit from NPower today. They listened to advice about electrical dangers in the home and environment. They were shown some video clips showing the dangers in the environment such as electricity pylons.
Leeds Art Gallery Trip (Living and Learning – staying safe in the environment)
We had a fantastic day at Leeds Art Gallery today. The children enjoyed this new experience and were captivated by the paintings, drawings, sculpture, installations and video art. We were lucky enough to see some 500 year old drawings by Leonardo da Vinci – they were so detailed but smaller than we thought they would be.
As part of Staying Safe week, we also highlighted all the things that help us stay safe when we are out and about. We wore high-vis jackets, seatbelts on the coach, lined up, walked with a partners, stayed near our adults and were counted many times by our teachers!
Fire engine visit (Living and Learning – Safety Week)
We were visited by White Watch who talked to us about how the fire service keep s safe.
Living and Learning – Internet safety
We had a fantastic time at the workshops delivered by One Day Creative. We learnt about how to stay safe online through a simple message : THINK, STOP, TURN OFF, TELL. The children played an imaginary online game and were confronted with situation where they should follow the guidance to think, stop if it feels uncomfortable, turn the game off and tell a trusted adult.
Staying safe – online gaming
Today, we enjoyed a creative e-safety workshop called ‘ Game Over’.
After a few warm up games, we were introduced to the plot. An online game where people collect coins and play against others has got much of the world addicted (sound familiar?). People are no longer sleeping well, people cannot focus their minds fully on anything else and the world is beginning to self-destruct.
We created our own avatars and joined the virtual world. In order to join, we had to sign up using our names, age, phone number and location. Then people asked us to be friends with them, in return, they offered us a reward: online currencies, game rewards etc. Shockingly, many of us said we would accept the strangers requests.
We learnt about the dangers of accepting friend requests from people we don’t know and what we can do if this happens: report them, block them and tell an adult we trust.
Lots of us admitted to playing games that are rated a 12. Some of us admitted playing games that have an age-rating of 18. We created a short piece to show what might changes might occur to us after we’ve played games like these.
Our short plays showed increases in violence, trouble sleeping and fall outs with family and friends.
Living and Learning – staying safe at home
We discussed different scenarios that children might encounter at home. They were very good at talking about the mistakes that had been made, what might happen and what is the right choice to make.
Football
Well done to the year 5 and 6 football team. The teamwork was amazing and they won!
Living and Learning – staying safe at school
The children talked about the ways that they are kept safe and keep themselves safe at school. Children not only talked about the physical environment but also how they can keep themselves emotionally safe too.
Living and Learning (Staying Safe) – d:side workshops
All year 1 and 2 classes have been visited by d:side, a health education provider, who have shown us how to make healthy and safe choices. The children listened brilliantly and could talk about how to look after their bodies and what goes in to them.
Help at home by talking about making healthy and safe choices when it come to our bodies.
Living and Learning – I know how to stay safe
Scholes (Elmet) Primary School has three protection officers whose duty is to keep our school safe. They dropped-in on us today for a short, sharp safety session. They gave us a stern safety talk, telling us how to keep ourselves safe at home.
They even took our fingerprints!
