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Tuesday 8 February - Safer Internet Day 2022
The theme this year is ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online.’ Safer Internet Day 2022 celebrates young people’s role in creating a safer internet, whether that is whilst gaming and creating content, or interacting with their friends and peers. Schools are encouraged to take advantage of the free guides and resources available to share with pupils and open up discussions about being safe online.
The Prevent Team have put together some useful information about managing Online Hate, Extremism and Fake News. The West Midlands Regional Cyber Crime Unit are offering free pre-recorded Student Focused Sessions covering: Being Respectful Online, Cyber Bullying, Mental Health – Positive Use of Technology, Protecting your personal information, How and when to get help, Positive Cyber Choices, Career and development pathways (Secondary).
Safer Internet Day 2022 - Primary Schools Tickets | Eventbrite
Safer Internet Day 2022 - Secondary Schools Tickets | Eventbrite
Coventry Prevent and West Midlands Police are working in partnership to deliver free, interactive, one-hour Internet Safety Workshops For Parents and Carers. The workshop will equip attendees with the knowledge and resources they need to feel more confident keeping children and young people safe online, from social media and gaming to grooming and radicalisation. The workshops are being run across a range of dates throughout February and March, use the Eventbrite link to register.
If you need any further support on this topic, please contact us: Prevent@coventry.gov.uk
City of Culture - Schools Programme
As part of City of Culture the Library Service is delivering a project called Reading Rooms for children aged 8-11. Children can meet in the Library once a week to share a story and through that explore their feelings.
The sessions are to be held at Aldermoor Library, Bell Green Library and Tile Hill Library. Please can you share with families who would benefit, they just need to contact the Library, we will take names and hope to start in February/March.
The ICG 2022 team would like all Coventry school children to have a go at designing the 'Team Coventry' logo. This is a great competition and opportunity for all Coventry students to be a part of the Games and help celebrate by potentially seeing their artwork used in a major international sporting event, attended by 80 different cities from five continents.
The rules explain how to and how many logos can be submitted per school, deadlines etc. If you have any questions, please email covsport@coventry.gov.uk and the team will be happy to help. For more information on International Children's Games, head to the Coventry ICG 2022 website.
Fire in the Youth competition - inspired by Rap Game UK
STEAM Stars is an Erasmus Plus funded project promoting the use of innovative pedagogies and digital learning tools in STEAM (Science and Technology interpreted through Engineering and the Arts) education for gifted students. As part of the project, we will be creating free to access online e-learning materials for trainers, with the aim to improve the skills of educators in the areas of gifted education and STEAM learning.
Being a part of our National Experts Group would entail providing valuable feedback on the materials we create in the project, helping us to ensure that the project effectively uses STEAM education in an engaging way in gifted education. For further information, please contact Dr Oana Pârvan - ad8063@coventry.ac.uk
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel (the new name for Big Pedal), the UK’s largest inter-school cycling, walking, wheeling and scooting challenge is back for 2022. Although the name has changed, the competition has the same amazing aim; to encourage more families to travel to school actively and help create healthier and happier communities.
Running from 21 March - 1 April 2022, schools will compete to see who can record the highest number of pupils taking active journeys to school. There are fantastic daily prizes to be won including accessories and equipment to help children travel actively.
Daily lesson plans and physical activities for pupils with barriers to participation will be free to download during the challenge. Participating in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel also contributes towards gaining Modeshift Stars accreditation.
The challenge is free to enter and schools can sign up online.
If you have any comments, please let us know by contacting lucy.lambert@coventry.gov.uk.
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