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What Parents and Carers Need to Know about OFCOM’s Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2023

Did you know that a fifth of 3- and 4-year-olds in the UK have their own mobile phone? Or that one in five of the 8- to 17-year-olds who play online games chat to people they don’t know while they’re gaming? Those are just two of the surprising (and, for many, disconcerting) statistics highlighted by Ofcom’s recently published ‘Media Use and Attitudes’ report.

It’s well worth a read, but weighing in at 50 pages of fairly densely packed data, we appreciate that it’s the sort of thing parents and teachers might not always have time for. So our #WakeUpWednesday guide this week is an at-a-glance breakdown of some of the report’s headline findings, from device usage to online spending habits.

Read on to access your free guide…<span class="su-quote-cite">National Online Safety</span>

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This guide is from National Online Safety.

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Helping Children and Young People with Managing Device Stress and Anxiety

With smartphones, tablets, laptops and games consoles now the norm, it’s no surprise to learn that almost nine out of ten (89%, to be exact) 10 to 15-year-olds in the UK go online every day. What’s perhaps less expected, though, is that more than one in four (27%) say their parents or carers don’t talk to them much – or, in fact, at all – about what they actually do in the digital world.

This leaves many children feeling like they lack a source of emotional support if something online is causing them stress. As today’s #WakeUpWednesday guide discovers, maintaining a regular avenue of communication about our digital lives is just one step that trusted adults can take to help children feel more in control of how – and when – they use internet-enabled devices.

Read on to access your free guide…<span class="su-quote-cite">National Online Safety</span>

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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.

Read on to access your free guide and catch up on the latest online safety news…<span class="su-quote-cite">National Online Safety</span>

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This guide is from National Online Safety.

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:

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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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.

Read on to access your free guide and catch up on the latest online safety news…<span class="su-quote-cite">National Online Safety</span>

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This guide is from National Online Safety.

Hedgehog-friendly School

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.<span class="su-quote-cite">internetmatters.org</span>

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.

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