Weekly Update – 7 June 2024
7 June 2024
As Wednesday 19 June is National Thank a Teacher Day, we wanted to use this as an opportunity to celebrate the amazing staff at Calthorpe Park School who work with your child every day. This year, the aim is to recognise not just the teachers but also the support staff, learning support assistants, canteen staff, site team and everyone who plays a crucial role in making our school thrive. Please use this form to pass on your thanks!
We are running another Timeout for Parents course starting on Tuesday 11 June for 6 weeks. This is free for parents and the last few places can be booked here. We do ask that you commit to attending for the full six weeks please. Feedback from the course that finished this week has been very positive.
The Kindness Bucket is open for donations on Scopay until Monday 17 June. More information can be found by clicking here.
Click here for our usual Library news and Books of the Week.
Safeguarding Spotlight: Sharing photos, videos and live streams online is part of daily life for many of our students, enabling them to share their experiences, connect with friends and record their lives. However, there are an increasing number of cases in which inappropriate content is being shared and the impacts of this are significant. Here at Calthorpe Park we take safeguarding our students very seriously and with an increase in cases of nude, semi-nude and/or exploitative material being shared, we wanted to reach out to our community to seek your support. It is against the law for nudes or semi-nudes (real or AI-generated) to be shared. Anyone posting or sending on such material is therefore acting illegally.
We actively encourage parents and guardians to check students’ phones, monitor online presence and encourage healthy practices.
Encourage children to:
- accept known friends only on social media to avoid unknown / unwanted attention
- not share or pass on any inappropriate content (to include nudes / semi-nudes) as this is a criminal offence
- report any inappropriate social media usage (social media platforms have their own reporting systems; to the police and inform the Safeguarding Team at Calthorpe)
Further support is available online from the NSPCC:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety
The following websites detail support to help remove inappropriate content:
