Issue 1060: 18th October 2024

HEADLINES

Cyber Security

Given how much of our lives are now lived online, cyber security is crucial to all our lives. In order to support families, Internet Matters has produced a series of resources to help us all to understand this often very complex area. The link below will take you to a page containing the resources:

Online Tutors

Many families will, at some point in their child鈥檚 education, seek a tutor to help them with a particular aspect of their learning.听 Up until the last 5-10 years, this would normally take place in the child鈥檚 home, with parents/carers in the home able to exercise informal supervision.

Today, it is much more common for tutoring to be online, and this has many benefits.听 For example, language tuition can be sourced from native speakers who live abroad, or specialist tuition from PhD students who are conducting research at a university.

However, a child receiving online tuition alone in their bedroom introduces a vulnerability that previously did not exist into extra tuition.

For your information, London Grid for Learning has produced an advice sheet for parents/carers who are using online tutors: 听

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Bringing Banned and Barred Items into School

Please can I remind you that we take a very strong stance on pupils who bring anything into school listed in Appendix 3 of our Behaviour Policy.听

This week we have had a few incidents whereby young pupils have brought in toy weapons which are also prohibited and will be confiscated.听

And Finally鈥�..

Next week is our final week before we break for the half-term when we will finish at the usual time of 3.05pm.听

Trip to Thorpe Park

The pupils thought it was a great experience. They would like me to try and rerun it next year, for other pupils to experience.

We got to see robots in action, create our own wooden robots, and engage in insightful conversations with STEAM experts.

It was a fantastic blend of hands-on creativity and expert knowledge, making it both fun and educational. Making them think of potential career pathways.

A lot of them showed bravery going on Hyperia!

Design a Science Waistcoat competition

In collaboration with the World Snooker Tour and Johnstone’s Paint, Stem are offering young people, between the ages of 11 and 14, an exciting opportunity to design a waistcoat that will be worn by a top snooker player during the Johnstone’s Paint Masters at Alexandra Palace. The winning design will be showcased live on the BBC in January 2025.

The Science Waistcoat Design Competition invites young people to create a waistcoat and share their scientific inspiration behind the design. They could draw or paint the design on the template.

The closing date is 4 pm 7 November 2024.

Year 9 Netball Team

A very successful day for our year 9 netball team!

A huge congratulations to all of the girls for winning their match against Appleton last night.

You all played excellent together.

Well done to Isla.C who got player of the match

Under 13 Football Game

Today was great to kick off the new season with a friendly match against the Chase High School winning 6-0.

This was also their first time playing as a team.

All the girls were confident and handled everything that came their way.

They all played exceptionally well!

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Under 16 Football Game

The girls had an amazing 6-1 win against the Chase High School.

They all gelled well as a team and played some great football!

Congratulations to all the girls on their well-deserved win!

WOOL4SCHOOL

Wool4School is an annual student design competition encouraging budding fashion and textile designers to showcase their creativity and innovation using wool. Students create a unique design made from wool, taking inspiration from the Wool4School brief. From fashion design to architecture, visual arts, and beyond 鈥� there鈥檚 no limits to their area of design.

Rayleigh Town Council

Christmas Lights Switch On event

What do you do when you're not in school?

We would love to hear about your hobbies, interests and achievements...

If you have any stories and/or photos that you would like to share, please contact us at pupilservices@sweynepark.com

Join Our Club

East Essex Triathlon Club

Rochford Hundred - Girls Rugby

The MegaCentre Rayleigh

Players Wanted

As you are aware we keep confidential records on our systems with parents/carers contact details, ie. addresses, phone numbers, emergency contacts and email addresses. If you have recently made any changes could you contact Pupil Services on: pupilservices@sweynepark.com so we can update our systems please.

We also hold information re your preference for use of pupils鈥� biometric data and school photos both inside and outside of school. If your preferences have changed, could you make us aware of the change by also emailing Pupil Services.

Thank you in advance.

Next week, the Caterlink menu will be 鈥�Lunch Week 2鈥�.

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