Headteacher Newsletter 437

Coming up after half term is Storytelling Week which encompasses World Book Day. This exciting week will be filled with activities which will immerse the children in developing their love for reading. As always, reading to your children as often as possible has a direct link to their educational success, wellbeing and ability to communicate effectively.

Our Storytelling Week finishes with World Book Day on Friday. Teachers are busy preparing some fun and engaging activities to promote books with the children. This day is also themed as a ‘dress-up’ day so children can come to school dressed as their favourite book characters from fiction books, or they could be inspired to wear clothes based on a non-fiction book.

Our next Achieve With Me sessions are approaching. This is a great opportunity to bring parents and children together in school to partake in some learning. It also gives you a chance to see what they are learning in school and an insight into how content is delivered.

The focus of these sessions is non-core learning. This means the wider curriculum subjects, such as History, Science, Art, Music, etc. The children will have had some input before you arrive so we are hoping they will be able to take a more leading role with your task and you can assist!

If you are able to come along, please arrive at the front of school by 2.30pm on your allotted day. If you have more than one child in the same session, we will be able to facilitate you being with them both/all - just let us know on arrival.

Monday 10th March - Y1 & Y3 
Tuesday 11th March - Y2 & Y4 
Wednesday 12th March - FS 
Thursday 13th March - no session
Friday 14th March - Y5 & Y6

This is another opportunity to visit school to see what your child has been learning, look through school books and get teacher feedback on their progress. We will send a further communication after half term so you can book an appointment.  

The 11th of February was Safer Internet Day 2025 - a fantastic day to remind ourselves - and the children - of the importance of being safe online. At Woodland View we are always looking for ways to ensure our children are both protected and have strategies for dealing with potential difficulties with the online world. Therefore, we:

• have half-termly assemblies on different online safety themes
• have half-termly lessons for the children in online safety 
• send out our monthly online safety newsletters that we Ping out to you about a variety of online safety themes and issues
• take part in the yearly Safer Internet Day activities and events.

The theme of this year's Safer Internet Day was ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. Therefore, this week at school, the children in all classes carried out some activities and a quiz on this year's theme of protecting themselves from online scams. 

However, we know that learning is best when it is reinforced by lots of people surrounding the children. Therefore, if you wish to follow up at home with some more discussions or would like to engage your child with more activities about online safety generally or this year's theme please see the following recommended websites:
 

https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2025/tips-for-parents-and-carers
A link to the parent's page for this year's theme which includes:

• Tips for Parents and Carers: Keeping you and your loved ones safe online
• Top Tips for Parents and Carers of 3-7 year olds

https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers

The UK Safer Internet Centre Parents and Carers Guides to online safety - Lots of tips and advice and guidance on helping children of different ages safely use various devices. There is also good advice about how to start more sensitive discussions with children around their safety online.