Developing a Healthy Relationship with Technology
Whether it be communicating with friends and 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 taken into consideration. It is relatively easy for us to control the time and use of devices in schools but it can be much more complex at home. Establishing and maintaining some basic rules and keeping dialogue open can be helpful.
Here are some useful websites for supporting you and your child online.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/topics/stay-safe
https://parentzone.org.uk/vodafone-digital-parenting
Useful Websites
We use Seesaw in Primary 6 at ESMS as a way of sharing work and feedback with children between home and school. Your child will be given login details at the start of each school session.
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.
KAZ: Free typing test - Touch typing training - Learn to type (kaz-type.com)- The children log in using their login and the password 'kaz'
https://www.busythings.co.uk/ - The children sign in with username ‘esmspupil’ and the password ‘esmspupil’.
https://play.numbots.com/ - The children log in using the username and password that their teacher has given them. This is the same one as the one they use for TimesTables Rockstars.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/ - The children log in using their username and password that their teacher has given them. This is the same as the one they use for Numbots.