World Book Day celebrations are going to be a little bit different to usual this year but it will still be just as fun!

To celebrate the day, we have organised some fun activities to do as a whole school. Teachers will also be sending out more fun activities to complete on World Book Day (4th March 2021).

On Thursday 4th March we will be holding our annual World Book Day Dress Up! Attend your Zoom meeting dressed up and send in a picture to your teacher.

A PRIZE WILL BE GIVEN FOR THE BEST DRESSED.

Have a look at some of the winners from last year!

This year, Aldersbrook took part in Safer Internet Day virtually. Click the OneDrive link below to see some of the amazing outcomes that have been sent in this week.

• Nursery and Reception read a story about Smartie the Penguin and came up with their own songs to help him stay safe on the Internet
• Year 1 created a puppet on how to retell the story of Smartie
• Year 2 wrote a letter to the Wise Owl, asking it questions about all things E-Safety
• Year 3 and 4 became news reporters and shared their knowledge on how to spot fake news
• Year 5 had some great discussions about a range of scenarios they could come across online
• Year 6 completed several activities that focused on telling the different between reliable and unreliable information

Monday 8th February 2021 - 

School is open as usual for critical workers. Please take care on roads and pathways around school entrances and walk if you can.

Thank you.

An Internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world

Safer Internet Day 2021 celebrates the amazing range of information and opportunities online, and its potential to inform, connect and inspire us, whilst also looking at how young people can separate fact from fiction.

The day will also look at the emotional impact navigating a misleading online world can have on young people and why it is important to create a supportive, critical and questioning culture online that encourages debate and discussion. We want to give young people the skills to support one another, and the strategies to spot and speak out against harmful and misleading content online.

In order to decide on a theme that was important to young people we spoke to them about the types of content they see online and found fake news and inaccurate content to come up often. Young people said they saw:

• ‘I see a lot of Fake News content, a lot of fake celebrity gossip, fake gossip (general)’
• ‘Adverts on webpages showing celebrities with extreme weight loss transformations.’
• ‘Adverts and pop ups or even occasional messages from strangers.’
• ‘People on TikTok making up news and conspiracy theories…’

We know that the issues of misinformation and ‘fake news’ do not solely affect young people, but that these issues do have a great impact on how young people feel about their time online.

We want to help equip young people with the skills they need to spot inaccurate content, which can sometimes be a complex task. Once young people feel more comfortable separating fact from fiction it is important that we then help them to take the next steps in helping to create an Internet full of trustworthy and reliable information. We invite everyone to join us, and Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe, to help create a better Internet on Tuesday, 9th February 2021 and throughout the whole year.