Howley Grange Primary School

Dear Howley families,

Welcome to our final newsletter of this half term. There is a raft of information below which we hope you find useful and interesting.

Our Spring term got off to a busy start back in January and has continued that way ever since! Over the past two weeks, not only has everyone been working super hard, we have welcomed lots of visitors to Howley too. The Rivers Trust came in to work with our Well-being Warriors to create a beautiful mural which will be unveiled to everyone very soon. Rev Coleman from Carters Lane Baptist Church came to talk to Year 2 about what you can find inside a church. The Police visited Year Four and Severn Trent have been in to deliver assemblies across the school. It is great to see these enhancements to our curriculum helping children to understand wider issues in the world around us.

We look forward to more exciting developments when we return from our break, including a Year Six visit to Leasowes to watch their ‘We will Rock you’ production, everyone celebrating World Book Day and sharing all of our hard work with our families at our Parents’ Evenings. In the meantime, as we pause to rest and recharge over the half term break, I would like to thank our dedicated staff team, our brilliant families and of course our fantastic children for all of their hard work and support during this last half term.

Sending everyone my very best wishes for a restful, happy half term,

Miss Lewis

We all had a fantastic day competing on TTRS, as part of NSPCC Rocks. Thank you once again for your continued support at home.

The chart below shows our school's TTRS data from the last 30 days.

We have seen an increase in the percentage of active users across school in the past few weeks, so thank you for your support with this at home. Please do keep ensuring that the children are completing their 3 minutes a day (15 mins weekly) at home as our aim is to see all classes reaching 100% active users!

Miss Holden

Here is the link to Accelerated Reader:

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6702136 .

PTA Forthcoming Events

Quiz night - Friday 7th March.

The quiz is a community event which is open to the wider public as well as Howley families. There is no minimum number of people to a team but there is a maximum of 8. Please email to let us know that you would like to participate and how many people are in your team. Email details are on the flyer below. Please remember to bring cash as there will be a bar, food and raffle. Please note we are unable to accept card payments. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you for your generous gift donations which will contribute to raising additional funds on the night.

Summer Fete - Saturday 14th June. Please save the date!

Also, look out for a very colourful event coming up around Easter - more details to come next half term!

Is Roblox Safe for my child?

The NSPCC has a useful page with advice about Roblox at this link:

Is Roblox safe for my child? | NSPCC

Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox

Sign up with the correct age

Make sure your child creates an account using the correct age. On Roblox, certain safety settings and parental controls are enabled by default for children under 13. However, you should still review the settings to ensure they’ve been set up correctly.

Build a list of age-appropriate games

Not all games on Roblox will be appropriate for your child. The platform has a setting that lets parents and carers limit what their child can play by allowing them to build lists of age-appropriate games. You can also switch off in-app spending or set them monthly limits.

Explore communication settings

You can manage who your child can speak to by disabling chat completely or limiting it to friends only. You can also switch off their inbox to stop them receiving direct messages.

4. Explore the platform together
Ask your child to give you a demonstration of the platform to help you understand how they use it and explore some of the parental controls together. You could even consider setting up your own account and playing the games yourself.

Have regular conversations about gaming

Continue to have regular conversations with them about what they are doing online. Ask your child open questions like ‘What games have you been playing on Roblox recently?’ or ‘What platforms have you been using to play games?’.

Check out our Online Safety Hub

Visit our Online Safety Hub for more advice and tips on gaming, talking to your child and much more. If you need more information on setting up parental controls on Roblox, visit their Parent Guide.

Healthy Dudley Website

Dudley Public Health & Wellbeing's website, Healthy Dudley, replaces the previous Let's Get website and makes it easier to find health and wellbeing information using the new search function. You can find information to support healthy pregnancy, infancy, childhood and adolescent health in the Starting Well pages. There is lots of information at this link:

Home - Healthy Dudley

on living and ageing well, as well as how to protect your health, support services and guidance for coping with bereavement.

Dudley's Spring Health and Wellbeing Update is below: