A week after being ‘born’, art club’s hedgehogs are leaving their sanctuary and making their way into the world.
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Ten Top Tips for Stronger Passwords
In 2022, Microsoft’s Digital Defence Report estimated that cyber criminals made more than 900 attempts to hack passwords every single second – and warned that the number was on the rise. Only around a tenth of those were successful, but the business magazine Inc. nevertheless reported approximately eight million passwords being stolen each day globally. Concerning, isn’t it?
Thankfully, there are plenty of steps we can take to make our valuable data less accessible to prying eyes. As well as recommending password management software and multi-factor authentication, our #WakeUpWednesday guide also suggests some even easier ways to come up with different passwords that are simple to remember – but difficult to guess.
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Vacancies - Closed
Class Teacher Vacancy (0.5 fte)
Post: Class Teacher – 0.5FTE (from September 2023)
Salary: M3 to UPS3, £31,750 – £43,685
Teachers Pay and Conditions
Permanent contract, 0.5FTE
An extremely rare opportunity has arisen for an experienced part-time teacher to join the Lord Deramore’s Primary School staff team. We are seeking to recruit a 0.5FTE Class Teacher and Subject Coordinator for September 2023 on a permanent contract. This post is unfortunately not suitable for Early Career Teachers.
Lord Deramore’s is a successful one-form entry LA maintained school, situated next to the University of York. Founded in 1795, it is oversubscribed and has a long-standing reputation for providing children with a creative, diverse and inclusive education. It is a happy and supportive school with very high levels of staff morale.
The successful candidate will be initially based in a Key Stage 2 class, job-sharing with one of our established and experienced teachers who is returning from maternity leave. The working pattern for this vacancy is Thursdays and Fridays plus alternate Wednesdays.
The school will be fully committed to providing professional development opportunities to the successful candidate, potentially including middle and senior leadership development.
Applicants are asked to include the following information in their supporting statements:
- Your experience and background.
- Why you have chosen to apply for this post – and specifically at Lord Deramore’s.
- Evidence that you are a capable and talented classroom practitioner.
- Your curriculum strengths, talents, interests and expertise.
Visits to the school are available. Please email lordderamores.primary@york.gov.uk to arrange a tour which we expect to offer at the following times during w/c 27th March and (after Easter) w/c 17th April:
- Tuesday 28th March – 9.30am and 4pm
- Wednesday 29th March – 2pm
- Thursday 30th March – 10am and 4pm
- Monday 17th April – 11.15am and 4pm
- Tuesday 18th April – 2pm
- Wednesday 19th April – 4pm
- Thursday 20th April – 11.15am
Application Pack:
- Click here for a detailed recruitment pack, including job description and person specification.
- School Teaching & Leadership application form – pdf version
- School Teaching & Leadership application form – Word doc version
Please submit completed application forms by post or electronically to: lordderamores.primary@york.gov.uk or FAO James Rourke, Lord Deramore’s Primary School, School Lane, York, YO10 5EE.
Closing date: Sunday 23rd April at 12 midnight
Shortlisting: w/c Monday 24th April
If possible, visits to shortlisted candidate’s current settings will take place before interview day
Interviews: Friday 5th May 2022
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Watch our Look North feature!
What talented young science communicators we have in Y6! In case you missed it, you can catch up with their fantastic feature via this Tweet from the BBC.
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Top Tips for Adopting Safe and Healthy Online Habits
The world, sadly, is all too often an unfair place. That’s why Comic Relief annually raises both funds and awareness to combat some of modern life’s worst inequalities. Unfortunately, many of these imbalances also play out in the online space, with young internet users often attacked because of a disability, their gender or their family’s financial circumstances.
As Red Nose Day 2023 gears up to help people through difficult times and put smiles back on young faces, our #WakeUpWednesday guide this week examines how to support children in dealing with negative things they watch, hear or read online. We’ve got top tips for safe, healthy online habits that can help youngsters to take potential pitfalls in their stride.
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Lord Deramore’s and our Hedgehogs on Look North!
Wow! Did you catch Year 6 and their feature about their Hedgehog Award project on Look North?
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What Parents and Carers Need to Know about iPads
It hasn’t quite made the sociocultural splash of the Mac or the iPhone, but Apple’s iPad has undeniably been a colossal critical and commercial success for the American tech giants. The device truly changed the game: before the iPad, comparatively few tablets existed – and they certainly weren’t adaptable enough to find a niche in the home as well as the workplace.
In the intervening 13 years, Apple’s sleek tablet has become a familiar sight in homes around the world – with children being wholehearted fans of having a portable, easy-to-use gateway to learning and entertainment on tap. Are iPads completely safe for young users, however? And if not, what do trusted adults need to be aware of? Our #WakeUpWednesday guide has the details.
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Useful information for families about ‘dual-screening’
Dual-screening is when someone uses multiple devices or screens at once. This is sometimes called multi-screening, screen stacking or media multitasking. Because dual-screening forces the user to divide their attention, concerns about the impact on young people have arisen.internetmatters.org
For more information about dual-screening and the impact it can have on children, we hope you will find this article from internetmatters.org useful.
Click the image to read all about dual screening on the internetmatters.org website!
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10 Ways Gaming Can Support Positive Outcomes in Children and Young People
Children’s Mental Health Week is taking place 6-12 February 2023, and in support of this year’s event we’ve produced a #WakeUpWednesday guide which outlines how youngsters’ mental wellbeing can by boosted by an (arguably) unexpected source: video games. Many children view gaming in the same way that they regard reading a book or watching a movie: a way to relax and unwind.
Gaming not only helps young people to de-stress and gives them a valuable sense of satisfaction when they succeed in the game – it can also develop their essential life skills (such as problem solving, co-operation and social interaction) without young gamers even realising that they’re learning things. Check out this week’s guide for a more detailed run-down.
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Tips for Encouraging Open Discussions about Digital Lives
Tuesday 7th February is Safer Internet Day: an annual event which promotes the safe, responsible and positive use of digital tech among children and young people. This year’s title is ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’ and is designed to give young voices a platform to shape the kinds of online safety support that they receive.
Simply checking in with children regularly about their experiences in the digital world, both good and bad, is a brilliant way to engage with what they’re currently into online, while also acting as a valuable early warning system about potential issues. To support Safer Internet Day, this week’s #WakeUpWednesday guide has some top tips for initiating these helpful catch-up chats.
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