The Outdoor Learning Team will be holding their Epic Day on Thursday 10th June 2021. To find out more about this event please click here.
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Children’s Mental Health Week
From the 1st to the 7th February 2021 is Children’s Mental Health Week. This years theme is Express Yourself. Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts or ideas through creativity.
Parentzone have created a new app called Ollee. It is a great app to help children talk about their feelings. Click on the link below to find out about Ollee.
Here are also a couple of activities that you can do to encourage children to express their feelings.
Robert Burns Assembly
Today is the birthday of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet born on the 25th January 1759. To find out more information about him, have a look at our Assembly.
If you would like to see more poems from Robert Burns, click here.
Dyslexia Awareness Month
For Dyslexia Awareness Month, Nessy Learning are giving away 4 Educational Apps for free. The apps that you can download are
- Hairy Letters (October 1st to 7th)
- Phonics (October 8th to 14th)
- Words 1 (October 15th to 21st)
- Syllable Division (October 22nd to 31st)
To find out more information and where you can download the apps, please click here.
Social Media Apps – Advice for Parents and Carers
Attached are 4 one page documents on Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok and Discord, some of the apps that a number of young people are using daily. They are each designed to provide important advice and information for parents and carers. Please click on the links to find out information about using each app.
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