Coronavirus Update - Shincliffe CE Primary School

Please visit the Durham County Council website for the latest news and advice.

Please use this link for BBC daily lessons for pupils:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

Please see the link for the Oak Academy Online Classroom:

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom

Government Advice for families on home schooling:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/supporting-your-childrens-education-during-coronavirus-covid-19?utm_source=cab989cd-0d5a-4ac7-9145-6445159c785f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate

Sports Resources for Parents

Link to our School Sports Partnership Resources: https://durhamcls-ssp.co.uk/home-resources/
Links from the School Sports Partnership for Online dance videos and activities:

Online Dance Videos for Teachers and Families
Online Fitness Activities for Teachers and Families 1
Online Fitness Activities for Teachers and Families 2

Safeguarding

Please see information from Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership:

Safeguarding Booklet
Additional Safeguarding Guidance – A response to COVID 19
Additional Safeguarding Guidance – June 2020

NHS

Advice for Parents when a Child is Unwell or Injured

Online Safety

From Durham Constabulary’s Cyber Protect Team:

With schools now being officially shut because of the COVID-19 outbreak, it is likely that there will be an increase of internet use for families and children over the coming weeks. With that in mind, here are some great tips for parents on setting up the right controls and privacy settings to ensure their child stays safe online. You can find these in detail in our ‘Parents Guide to Cyber Safety’ advice booklet which is attached to this email.

The booklet looks at the following areas:

Smart Devices

They are a number of different ways to secure your child’s device within the phone settings. Some of these are turning off location settings, blocking inappropriate content and disabling app purchasing.

Broadband & Mobile Networks

Did you know you can restrict certain websites on devices connected to your home router? You can also use these settings to make the home Wi-Fi unavailable to a device after say 9pm for example!

Gaming

We look at questions to ask when buying a games console, such as if the console or games have chat facilities, is your child able to make purchases using their games console, or does your child’s gamertag reveal their identity?

Social Media

There are many features that you can put in place to ensure social media is safe for your child, like ensuring accounts are private not public, filtering out inappropriate comments and setting up two-factor authentication.

There are also a number of websites that give detailed advice on staying safe online, such as:

We are on social media! We post regular cyber safety updates on social media and you can find us @DurhamCyber on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can also contact the Durham Constabulary Cyber Protect Team at cyber.protect@durham.pnn.police.uk. Please be aware that our inbox is not staffed 24/7. Ring 999 in an emergency or 101 to report an incident.

Parents Guide to Cyber Safety Book

Well-being Resources for Parents

Our children not only can hear everything that is going on around them, but they may feel the tension and anxiety present in society. They have never experienced anything like this before. Although the idea of being off of school for an extended period may sound great to some children, they are probably imagining a fun time like summer break, not the reality of being at home and not seeing their friends.

Over the coming weeks, you may see an increase in some issues with your children such as anxiety, anger, or frustration that they can’t do things normally. This is normal and expected under these circumstances.

What all children need right now is to feel comforted, loved and reassured. Play outside and go on walks. Bake cakes and paint pictures. Play board games and do a science experiment together are all good ideas. Start a book and read together as a family.

Learning is important and we are providing resources to support this at home. Included in this are the resources on well-being and exercise on DB Primary. Please do make use of these.

The following links from Durham County Council may also be of use:

Links to support pupils and adults with anxieties

Anna Freud: Self-Care and Coping Strategies

https://www.annafreud.org/selfcare/

BBC: How to protect your mental health
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51873799

CBBC: Video and Questions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51861089

ChildMind: Talking to Children
https://childmind.org/article/talking-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus/

ELSA: Coronavirus Story for Children
https://www.elsa-support.co.uk/coronavirus-story-for-children/

National Association of School Psychologists: Parent Resources
https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/school-climate-safety-and-crisis/health-crisis-resources/talking-to-children-about-covid-19-(coronavirus)-a-parent-resource

Young Minds: Feeling Anxious about Coronavirus
https://youngminds.org.uk/blog/what-to-do-if-you-re-anxious-about-coronavirus

THRIVE

What is Thrive?

Thrive is a specific way of working with all children that helps develop their social and emotional well-being. This enables them to engage with learning and supports them in becoming resilient. Thrive enables adults to better understand the children’s needs being signalled by their behaviour.

The Thrive Approach uses play, creativity and the arts to build healthy and supportive relationships between adults and the children they are supporting.

The Benefits

Play is essential for healthy brain development. It improves the cognitive, physical, social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people.

Creative play promotes social and emotional development by integrating feelings with activities and relationships.

For good mental and physical health and to learn life skills, children need a variety of unstructured play opportunities from birth through to adolescence.

Thrive uses art and play to help children and young people explore their emotions without the need to use words.

The Thrive Approach incorporates arts and play-based activities as a way of building the supportive relationship a child or young person needs to become more open to learning.https://www.thriveapproach.com

Thrive activities for parents of children up to age 7 – week one
Thrive activities for parents of children up to age 11 – week one