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Newcastle Falcons and Greggs Tackling Health Online Learning

Wed 24 Feb 2021 J Driver

Pupils in school and learning remotely enjoyed their first session with Newcastle Falcons today. As part of the Greggs Tackling health programme, pupils in Year 1 - Year 6 will receive weekly sessions during lockdown. Once pupils return to school on 8th March the coaches will come into school to work with Year 5 and Year 6.

Everyone had a great time, see you next week!

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Free access to Commando Joe's Parent Portal for all Balliol families!

Fri 12 Feb 2021 J Driver

Dear parents and carers,

We are very pleased to inform you that through our partnership with Commando Joe’s Character Education, we are now able to offer free membership to Commando Joe’s parent portal so that children can complete top secret missions when away from school.

The Commando Joe values are aligned with our school values and by using the parent portal you can help your child continue to develop these values and integrate them into their daily life, even during lockdown! The programme:

Provides behaviour support
Develops mental and physical resilience

Improves life skills
Fun for all the family
Encourages everyone to get active
Rewards chart and digital badges
A new top secret mission every week!

“Our missions won’t just keep them entertained for hours. They are designed to help your children develop key skills that will not only support positive behaviours but help every child grow in confidence through play with family and friends. Develop Resilience, Empathy, Self-awareness, Positivity, Excellence, Communication and Teamwork, along with mental and physical wellbeing that will benefit the whole family.” Children can complete a mission (parents decide) to earn points for their scoreboard. Once they earn 12 points they move to the Top-Secret reward chart and earn digital badges.

Collect as many digital badges as possible and help your child build their character and use the portal as a reward system to help with positive behaviours.

Please use instructions and individual code sent to you today via email to claim your free subscription to the Parent Portal.

We hope that you enjoy using the parent portal and that you and your children can have fun as well as support their positive behaviour growth.

Kind regards

Mrs Judith Driver

Headteacher

Digital Outreach Project

Fri 05 Feb 2021 J Driver

Dear parents and carers,

We are delighted to share with you some information about the digital outreach project. This project can provide free 1:1 online support for parents and carers who need help navigating educational platforms such as SeeSaw, downloading/uploading work, sending emails and attachments etc. Should you need assistance in supporting your child's online learning please feel free to contact them on (0191) 643 2288 Email: digitaloutreach.project@northtyneside.gov.uk

Kind regards

Mrs Judith Driver

Live sessions

Wed 03 Feb 2021 J Driver

Well done to Year 3 and Year 4 who were pioneers in online live sessions this afternoon!

Resilience awards go to Miss Morrell and Mr Longstaff who made it happen despite the ongoing internet issues!