Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Parents TikTok Workshop online
Thu 26 Jan 2023Dear Parents,
Are your children accessing TikTok? Do you know what TikTok is?
Parent Zone are hosting a Tech Tips Live session about TikTok, on Tuesday 31st January, 4:30 - 5:00pm.
Register via this page: https://parentzone.org.uk/tech-tips-live to access the workshop.
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Safer Internet Day 2023
Thu 12 Jan 2023Tuesday 7th February is Safer Internet Day!
Parents please visit the website below in how you can support your child online.
https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2023/educational-resources
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Up coming dates for Parents
Fri 25 Nov 2022Tuesday 29th November
3.30 - 5.30
Parents Evening for Years 1, 2,3, 4, 5 and 6
Thursday 1st December
4.00 – 7.00
Parents Evening for Years 1, 2,3, 4, 5 and 6
(Online safety workshops in the hall at 4pm, 5pm and 6pm)
Tuesday 6th December at 4.00pm
Early years reading workshop for Reception parents
Thursday 8th December
Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner
Tuesday 13th December
9.00 am and 2.15pm
Reception Christmas Performance for Parents
Tuesday 13th December
Year 6 Holocaust workshop
Wednesday 14th December
10.30 and 2.30
Nursery Christmas Performance for Parents
Thursday 15th December
Nursery arts and crafts day
Friday 17th December
Last day of term for Nursery children
Monday 19th December
Nursery Parents Day
Tuesday 20th December
1.45
Year 5 Tableau for Parents
Tuesday 20th December
Last day of term, children finish at 2.30
MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Child Safe Search Engine
Thu 10 Nov 2022Parents, why not use "Swiggle?" It is a child safe search engine powered by Google.
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Harvest
Tue 08 Nov 2022Harvest Food Bank Appeal 2022
As part of Harvest Festival at George Carey, which we celebrated just before half term, we would like to support our local food banks in Barking by donating as many items as we can.
We are asking pupils to donate an item, more if they can, to support the most needy particularly as we move into the colder months. We appreciate that times are tough and you may not be able to help but if you can that is great.
The items the food banks are in need of are:
shampoo
body wash
deodorant
sanitary products
toothpaste
baby milk
nappies
tinned food like tuna, fruit, soups, custard
dried food like couscous, noodles, rice
jars of cooking sauces like curry, pasta bake
cereals
biscuits and treat foods like crisps or snack bars
tea, coffee, sugar
long life milk
Please take send your child in with donations to their class, where their teacher will add to their Harvest displays.
Should you need support from a food bank please take a look at the link.
https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-help/find-a-foodbank/barking/
Thank you all so much.
Mrs Baldock.
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Run Pudsey 2022
Tue 08 Nov 2022Hello all,
On Friday 18th November we will be celebrating Children In Need/pudsey day.
To help with fundraising this year we have signed up to Run Pudsey.
Children can choose to sign up and participate in a form of physical activity (cycling, jogging, running, skipping etc) inside or outside of school.
The aim is for children to set themselves a target and achieve it all through fundraising by Friday 18th November.
All children who participate will receive a certificate of achievement. And those who raise over £10 will receive a medal straight from Pudsey !
If you would like to sign up, please visit the link below:
https://www.runpudsey.co.uk/school/george-carey-church-of-england-primary-school
Your code is: 47DA
Remember fundraising page closes on the 18th! Share your page with your family and friends so that you can get as many donations !
Finally, don’t forget to come to school in your Pudsey wear on the 18th! ( with the exception of year 3 and 4)
Happy fundraising !
Miss Robb
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Armistice Day 11th November 2022
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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Digital Parenting Guide
Fri 14 Oct 2022Dear Parents,
A hard copy will be sent home with your child. Please have a read of this as it has important Online Safety aspects explained.
vodafone_digital_parenting.pdf
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/digital-parenting-archive
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Online Safety Letter to Parents
Tue 11 Oct 2022Dear Parents/Carers
Re: Online Safety Concerns
It has come to our attention that many of our children are using different social media platforms such as Tik Tok /Discord/WhatsApp and Snapchat particularly.
While some of these platforms are great for socializing and can provide a creative outlet for your child, it can also have some harmful effects. Like with any social media platform, posting videos and pictures regularly leaves your child open to negative reactions and harsh comments.
In accordance with children's privacy laws, TikTok and such other sites provide an age limit starting from users being 13 years-old to get their own account. It would appear that some of our parents are allowing their children to access via their own accounts, but are not supervising what access is taking place. It has come to our attention that some of our children have hundreds and hundreds of followings in one case over 1300 on a public account.
Please see below link and extracts from the NSPCC.
How to keep your child safe on TikTok using safety settings
There are six security settings that can help you to keep TikTok safe for your child and prevent them seeing anything that might worry or upset them:
- Family Pairing
This allows you to connect your child’s account with your own. It gives you access to parental controls to help manage who they can speak to and how long they can spend on the app.
- Private account
Setting your child’s account to private means that only approved followers will be able to watch their videos.
- Restricted mode
This feature helps to filter out videos that may contain inappropriate or adult topics and stop them appearing on your child’s 'For You Page'.
- Comment filters
Enable to manage who can comment on your child’s videos and stop inappropriate comments from appearing on their feed.
- Direct messages
This can help them manage who can contact them privately on the app. You can choose who can send them direct messages by selecting ‘Friends only’ or ‘No one’.
- Daily screen time
This setting allows you manage how long your child can spend on the app. You can set a daily time limit, and once it’s up you’ll need to enter a passcode to keep using the platform.
Tips to help children stay safe on social media
- Review the location settings - Remind them, and explain why, they should not share location on posts, or public forums and chats, videos or with people they do not know. Review the location settings on their favourite app or game and talk to them about what they are sharing online.
Sometimes it might be appropriate for your child to share their location with a trusted adult or friend. For example, if they are travelling home alone or arranging to meet a group of friends outside school, then it can be a good way to help keep them safe.
Remember: If children share their location publicly, it could be seen by someone they do not know.
This can increase the risk of cyberbullying, stalking or unwanted contact (from friends or others) or becoming a target.
- Get to know the safety and privacy settings - Explore the safety and privacy settings on any app, to decide which are right to use for your child. Each app has slightly different ways to set up an account, but most have the option to set an account to private, to not allow friend requests, and to hide the user’s location. Explain these settings to your child and the reasons for having them in place.
- Age ratings and features - Get to know the age ratings of the apps that your child uses. Many have a minimum age of 13 years old to be able to sign up, but you should check the age rating of individual apps to make sure.
Do not forget that you know your child best, and you might decide that they need to be a little bit older before it is suitable for them.
There are also some useful links on our school website under the section of Key Information scroll down to the bottom to Safeguarding and there you will find some useful links.
If you have any concerns you wish to raise directly with the school please contact our Safeguarding Lead Tracy Sexton.
Yours Sincerely
Chris Harrison
- Family Pairing
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Safer Internet Day Video by the Digital Leaders
Tue 08 Feb 2022Please click on the link to watch the video the Digital Leaders from year 6 produced for Safer Internet Day.
