Christmas Special Inc. Thank A Teacher Treats

Christmas Computing & Online Safety– Ideas for Schools and Families
       Plus, Planning for Safer Internet Day School Celebrations 2021

Christmas Brownie Treats for Staff Rooms Baroness Beeban Kidron is kindly arranging up to 50 chef baked treats per school, similar to the summer term cupcakes, email to follow!

100,000 further Free data from Vodafone school children https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/pay-as-you-go-plans/schools-connected (on school circular last week)
Hour of Code 7-13 December, part of Computer Science Week and includes remote learning and unplugged resources and 4-18 printable Unplugged Activity Pack

Safer Internet Day School Celebrations– We have now secured over 20 remote and school based sessions with digital and online safety partners including Miles Berry, Stephen Heppell, Common Sense Media, PopJam, LGFL and Three Discovery to support whole school celebrations throughout January and February.  Individual planning emails to follow to each school.

New Online Safety Resource for SEND https://www.childnet.com/resources/star-send-toolkit

Christmas Resources for Schools and Families from LGFL https://curriculumblog.lgfl.net/2020/11/christmas-crackers-2020

Thank you to the curriculum team a LGFL for the fab blog above, LGFL has amazing Christmas resources including:
Busy Things – design and print Christmas cards, decorate a tree, wrap up presents and write a letter to Santa! & https://www.busythings.co.uk/advent
Audio Network has over 60,000 professionally produced tracks that can be search by keyword or mood. Why not search for ‘festive’, ‘jolly’ or ‘Christmas’. You can use them in lessons, performances and for videos you create in school – without breaking any copyright rules!
j2Launch festive activities

http://christmas.j2webby.com/ J2data, JIT, J2code, J2Webby all Christmas themes, and there’s a Christmas blog with a different activity every day this month

And remember school subscriptions such as Purple Mash and Espresso have extensive Christmas resources.

Latest Remote Learning, Policy Addendums, Case studies & Good Practice Session
https://islington-gov.j2bloggy.com/Islington-Computing-Online-Safety/remote-education-policy-template-policies-dfe-req

A huge thanks to Islington Schools for joining the Remote Learning Sharing Session with Jeff Cole, secondary school improvement last week.  Feedback from schools was so inspiring and very much in line with Stephen Heppell’s statements – that the pandemic is triggering major transformation in education (usually every 75 years)
And headlines indicated whole school, SLT, subject specific good practice, with this being “New way of Learning not Remote Learning” and other headlines include:

“not remote learning but learning – blended Learning” and “online flipped learning becoming the new normal and practice in classrooms” “protecting the curriculum”

“online learning walks, digital exercise books + work scrutiny” – It was very much owned whole school and not an IT persons job, which is vital.

Magic Christmas Digital Resources to include in the schools newsletter
This great article Includes our favourites Santa google game, Code Boogie! https://santatracker.google.com/village.html​
And don’t forget https://www.portablenorthpole.com http://www.noradsanta.org and the App to Text and call Father Christmas  and the Elf Cam App is proving popular

LGFL Online Safety Facebook Live for Parents Every Wednesday in December
Are families ready for an Online SafetyChristmas? Why not invite school parents to LGFL FacebookLive #onlinesafety every Wednesday in December
https://www.facebook.com/lgfldigisafe/posts/708522253103890

Remote Learning Behaviour and Acceptable Use Agreements Reminder
There have been a number of serious incidents during Remote Learning reported with breaches of Behaviour and Acceptable Use Agreements, including children filming teachers during live lessons.  This is a reminder of the resources available to support robust Policy for children and parents supporting at home when children are isolating, which embeds the school behaviour and associated policy, as well as written AUP and includes routine reminders at start of each lesson.  Template policy examples are available https://www.lgfl.net/online-safety and  https://swgfl.org.uk/resources/online-safety-policy-templates/ and additional support is available to Islington schools via this Computing and Online safety SLA,

Nativity and Christmas Celebrations Online – Examples, Safeguarding and Fundraising
Schools are considering how to share Christmas Concerts and Performances this Christmas Online and SWGFL and LGFL have created a comprehensive advice on live or pre-recorded online performance including info about policy, event options, technology, expectations and parental engagement (Inc. not filming the live remote session!)
https://swgfl.org.uk/magazine/swgfl-release-new-resource-for-schools-planning-online-performances
https://safeblog.lgfl.net/2020/11/what-goes-on-in-nativity-stays-in-nativity

The TES also has pulled together examples of how to deliver online https://www.tes.com/news/5-ways-you-can-still-run-your-school-nativity-year
And a brilliant idea to fundraise via Rocketfund https://www.rocketfund.org/programmes/school-panto-online Sell tickets via their fund raiser page.

Islington Case Study of Partnership with Common Sense Media Digital Literacy SoW

https://www.commonsensemedia.org.uk/islington-case-study

2019-2020 Islington Schools partnered with Common Sense Media to map a scheme of work linking to their resources Education for a Connected World  Teaching OS in Schools  RSE and Health Education 2020 working with LGFL and the PHSE team, the case study is featured here

Other Christmas fun games links

http://www.literacyshed.com/the-christmas-shed.html

http://www.games.co.uk/games/christmas

http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/christmas/games.php

http://akidsheart.com/math/mathgames/ctreepuzzle.html


Ongoing CPD via Webinars from LGFL, CAS and Teach Computing