Developing a Healthy Relationship with Technology
Whether it be Facetiming or Skyping relatives, using YouTube to listen to their favourite songs or videos, playing apps on a phone or tablet or looking up facts and information online, children are increasingly exposed to digital technology in their everyday lives.
While these technological advances give us a fantastic resource, there are issues regarding mental and physical wellbeing and safety that need to be considered and planned for from the very start.
For information to support your approach to supporting your child, Parent Zone Digital Parenting Magazine contains a wealth of useful articles and suggestions.
https://www.vodafone.com/content/digital-parenting.htmlWe use Seesaw at ESMS as an online Learning Journal and a way of sharing work and feedback with children between home and school. Your child will be given new login details at the start of each school session. https://web.seesaw.me
Seesaw is a tool for your child and their teacher to communicate with each other. Seesaw gives children a place to document their learning, be creative and learn how to use technology in a safe and positive way. Your child will be able to share selected aspects of their learning and their interests with their teacher and in turn, they can share that with you. Your child and teacher can add photographs of work, videos, drawings, voice recordings and notes.
Useful Websites
We also subscribe to several websites that the children can access at home. They can log in through Firefly or directly from the website.
www.educationcity.com – The children have their own unique username and password, which their teacher will provide them with at the start of session.
Log in and click on Find Content by Subject and choose Literacy, Maths and Science at the appropriate level.
Activities are the best place to start… most are about 10 minutes long and concentrate on developing specific learning points.
Play LIVE (in Maths) lets your child play against other children around the country in a safe environment. Focusing on mental maths, it is a great way of developing speed and accuracy.
https://www.busythings.co.uk/ - The children sign in with username ‘esmspupil’ and the password ‘esmspupil’.
There are so many great activities which link to different curricular areas. There are also many creative activities. Have fun exploring the art, music and special events activities.