If you wish your child to attend any of these clubs please complete this google form Extra Curricular Activities 15 Jan – 29 Mar 24
Contentious or provocative viewpoints are shared every second of the day online. That’s not to say, however, that an opinion is less valid simply because it’s initially unpopular: just think about Galileo or Emmeline Pankhurst. The facility to have our beliefs questioned – and to challenge other people’s in return – is often a catalyst for scientific and social progress.
With disturbing frequency, though, some individuals post damaging hate speech online under the guise of ‘freedom of expression’ – and unless young people can identify hate speech, there’s a risk of them being influenced by such harmful content. Our #WakeUpWednesday guide explores the crucial differences between free speech and hate speech.
When thinking about potential employment for the future, it is a great idea to stay up to date with what we refer to as local labour market information.
Check out an update from December below.
From using them for communication, work, shopping and entertainment, devices such as smartphones, laptops and the rest are now deeply ingrained into modern society. Small wonder, then, that young people – who’ve grown up surrounded by such gadgets – can sometimes struggle to put them down, switch them off or keep themselves occupied without them.
While limiting our screen time may require a great deal of restraint, the effort can be rewarded with significant benefits to our physical and mental health. Our #WakeUpWednesday guide has simple tips for helping to manage the amount of screen time in your household – encouraging the whole family to spend more quality time together and live in the moment.
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LEARN should be done before the revision process begins. It ensures that you are organised and begins to put the information into your memory.
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TEST your knowledge with quizzes and questions to move information from your short term to long term memory. The more you test the more you will remember.
North East Creativity Collaborative Network
The North East Creativity Collaborative Network (NECCN) is a professional learning community of twelve schools working together to test a range of innovative practices in teaching for creativity, with the explicit intention that learning is shared to facilitate system-wide change. Working alongside existing school structures, Headteachers, Creative Leads and wider teaching staff are co-developing creative strategy and pedagogy through a series of enquiries and evaluating the impact both on their own practice, and on pupils.
The network was established in 2021/2022 as part of a National Arts Council England funded three-year pilot programme consisting of eight regional collaboratives, in response to the Durham Commission recommendations. The commission looked at the role creativity and creative thinking should play in the education of young people. It was set up in response to the strength of opinion across the business, education, and public sectors that young people are emerging into a world in which the skills and knowledge of the current education system will no longer be sufficient.
In September 2023, we were thrilled to welcome five new schools to the collaborative:
Hotspur Primary School
Shillbottle Primary School
Greenhough Primary School
Benton Dene Primary School
Duke’s Secondary School
The schools in the North East Creativity Collaborative are led by Cragside Primary School. The other schools in the network are:
Duchess’s Community High School
Seahouses Primary
New York Primary
Fordley Primary
Cambois Primary
Sunningdale School
The NECCN have a shared understanding and vocabulary for creativity which was co-developed by Lucas, Claxton and Spencer (2012) at the Centre of Real-World Learning at Winchester University together with Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE). The five-dimensional model called the Creative Habits of Mind supports schools and teachers to understand how creativity can be developed in all subjects and age phases and that it’s a vital capability which supports children and young people’s learning.
The NECCN is working in partnership with CCE, an international foundation based in the region with expertise in creativity in education alongside eminent consultants such as Professor Bill Lucas and Professor Louise Stoll.
Seven out of ten parents use technical controls on their child’s devices to manage access to content. Such safeguards can be an enormous asset: helping parents and carers to manage what their child might encounter online while allowing young people to happily use their new gizmo to start exploring the digital world.
Though extremely useful once in place, such parental controls vary from device to device and can often be confusing or difficult to set up. This week’s #WakeUpWednesday guide outlines what defences are available on some of the most popular devices around: advice that will probably come in particularly handy at this time of year! 
