Stockbridge Village Primary

Stockbridge Village Primary (April 22nd): (Nursery to Year 6)

Year 6

• The school as a whole is a very literacy rich environment.
• Books and student work around writing and books is everywhere. 
• Students very engaged with academic progress, each student had a chart with the standards/learning goals on them and receive a sticker every time they make progress.
• Students in year 6 are preparing for Key Stage 2 exams
• Huge focus on grammar
• Students are learning about procedure pieces. The book that the classroom is focused on for this unit and theme is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Students watched a clip from one of the Harry Potter films, and were writing about a procedure to heal bones.
• This school has a strong social and emotional focus.
• The school has a focus on providing parents with supports needed to help students and parents be successful. The school child protection/interventionist works with students at school through counseling sessions and with families to connect them with services

From the Stockbridge Village Primary School website, I found the following information on their E-Safety policies.

Technology:

"E-Safety:

Technology is a wonderful tool and these days it seems that children all have wide access to a range of devices. All of these devices are fun and engage children in a stimulating interactive environment. Used appropriately, they can bring enormous benefits to learning but used inappropriately they can be a risk to children. All adults have a responsibility to support children to make the right choices when online and this is an appropriate time to point out some simple measures that can be applied at home.

Some tips for you to help keep your children safe online

1 Consider locating your computer or mobile devices in a family area where children’s online activity can be monitored or supervised.

2 Talk to your child and ask them to show or even teach you how they use the internet and learn about websites or tools they like to use and why.

3 Make sure your child knows it’s important that they tell an adult they trust if anything happens online that makes them feel scared, worried or uncomfortable.

4 Remind children that they should use the same caution online as they would in the real world. Tell them they should never go to meet someone they have only spoken to online.

5 Install antivirus software, secure your internet connection and use Parental Control functions for computers, mobile phones and games consoles to block unsuitable content or contact.

6 Familiarize yourself with the age limits of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, ooVoo, Instagram etc. There’s an age limit in place for a reason, if you decide to allow your children on to these sites make sure you know how they can protect themselves while using these sites – for example knowing how to set appropriate privacy settings.

Teaching eSafety is an importing part of keeping our children safe and we do this in school using age appropriate resources to demonstrate the risks and how to avoid them. It is very important that children take these messages with them at the end of the school day and are supported when using technology at home. Each and every adult has a responsibility to protect children and this includes when they are on line. Below are a list of websites that you may find useful."

Safeguarding & well being. (2015). Retrieved April 30, 2016, from http://www.stockbridgevillageprimary.co.uk/?page_id=18

Reflection:

This visit felt very much like visiting a school in Vermont. The staff was so warm and welcoming and took us on a lovely tour of the building and the classrooms. We were introduced to each class and greeted warmly. The school was bright and engaging, with student work and learning everywhere! In addition there was math terms and displays, and book displays everywhere you looked.