Managing mental health and wellbeing: advice for families
Nationally many parents and carers have expressed that they are concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on their child’s mental health and wellbeing and access to support services.
Two new Parent Info articles explore how parents and carers can support their child’s mental health, and highlight things they can do to manage the wellbeing challenges of family life under lockdown:
Cyber Security Advice during Coronavirus (SWGfL)
As the world grapples with management of coronavirus, people are keen to find information about the disease, and cyber criminals are using the public’s fear and interest to their advantage, creating new scams and targeting individuals, organisations and even whole industries and countries.
You can find out more information about how to tackle those harms here: https://swgfl.org.uk/magazine/
Child online safety during lockdown: where to report
With children spending more time on the internet during lockdown, it’s more important than ever for parents and carers and their children to know the best reporting and support routes, should they be worried about something online.
This new ParentInfo article signposts to reporting, advice and support services available for children and their families.
For further excellent advice for online safety go to https://www.internetmatters.org/advice/6-10/
Morning
As we start another week of remote learning we wanted to give a few quick reminders and draw your attention to a few helpful resouces.
Learning from Home
Thank you for continuing to support the children with their learning from home. As we mentioned last week, this is not without significant challenges.
All children from Y1-6 have a Google Classroom account where daily activities are posted. Children from the Early Years continue to use Tapestry. Last week we published a set of FAQs with information to help parents with managing these platforms. The FAQs were posted on this blog, on social media and emailed to all parents. If your child needs more support accessing learning from home, please contact the school. We can help with techncal support over the phone and provide learning packs where appropriate.
Resources
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have identified a range of useful websites and information to help parents and children at this time. The website can be found here: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/
The webpage can also be downloaded as a pdf here: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/
Stay at home activities for children and young people
https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/
Well-being charity, Action for Happiness have published their Meaningful May calendar full of ideas and top tips to help us respond to the global crisis with a sense of purpose and meaning.
https://www.
Wishing you a safe and happy week.
Wormley Primary School
Hello parents and carers.
Can we start by sending a huge thank you to all for supporting the children with their learning at home. Learning from home has certainly presented challenges to all of us. Trying to be a parent/carer and a personal tutor and manage the other challenges as a result of the pandemic, is tough. Nevertheless, there have been some amazing examples of creativity and resilience demonstrated by children, families and the teaching staff. Together our learning community is making the best of a very challenging situation!
We appreciate that accessing learning online can be very difficult for a number of reasons and we do not anticipate this will get much easier the longer schools are closed. To try and help we have put together a few FAQs about some of the common challenges being experienced by families. The FAQs have been arranged in phases but they possibly apply to all children. After the FAQs there are some helpful links to curriculum and wellbeing support.
We hope these help and, above all, we hope you are all safe and well.
We are ready to support those who need us this week.
If your work is critical to the Covid-19 response or you work in one of the critical sectors and you cannot keep the children safe at home, then your children will be prioritised for education.
However, many parents who work in these sectors may be able to keep their children safe at home.
If it is possible for your children be at home, then they should remain there.
Wormley Primary School
Cozens Lane East, Broxbourne,
Hertfordshire EN10 6QA
Tel: 01992 303331
Email: admin@wormleyprimary.co.uk
