MOVE TOGETHER - GET MOVING CLASSES

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Would you like the opportunity to go to FREE fitness classes? As part of our Move Together community initiative, we're hosting FREE weekly fitness classes for girls aged 11-16, specially designed to build strength and confidence in body and mind. It's part of our purpose to build a healthier nation. Move Together is run in community spaces near our gyms with our very own fitness instructors, find your nearest class in Estover and Cattedown on the Move Together website.

 

POSITIVE CONNECTORS - BARNARDOS

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This is a service that enables looked-after children/young people in Plymouth to be paired with one of our lovely volunteers. Meeting at least once a month, and in some cases more, they will build enduring and trusting relationships, whilst engaging in lots of fun. We are accepting referrals for young people ages 8- 18. Our Positive Connectors provide vital, one to one support to young people who are in/or have left care. They develop a long-term relationship with a young person and share fun and motivational experiences together. Please discuss the Positive Connector Service with your young person. If the young person is keen for the services, please contact catherine.bull@barnardos.org.uk  for a referral form.

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UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS - CHILDNET

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Social media is an important driving force of the online space. Children and young people are among the core users of these platforms, but what drives the content they see? This all-seeing eye present in social media software, is the algorithm. What your pupils see on their device's is wholly directed by what these algorithms deem interesting to them. As professionals in the educational space, it is important to understand how these work and how they determine what's popular. In this vein, Childnet currently has an excellent blog article on the topic. See it here: https://www.childnet.com/blog/algorithms/.

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TEACHING CHILDREN PEDESTRIAN SAFETY - WALKING TO SCHOOL

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Perhaps this year will be the first your child is walking alone or with their friends or maybe your child is changing school and they have a new route to learn. It can be a nerve-wracking time, but, there are things you can do to help your child with the transition and keep them safe. Children need help to learn how to cross the road safely. And there’s a lot you can do as a parent or carer to support them. You can use your walks together to practice the Green Cross Code. Your good habits crossing the road safely can become theirs. You can help older children to learn how to assess risk, judge speed and understand consequences especially when getting ready for walking to school.

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•  Find out about cycle safety and in-car safety.

•  Download our road safety fact sheet – Safe around roads.

• Visit our road safety hub to download our road safety fact sheet, our activity sheets for children and – if you work with parents – our road safety session plan.

•  Explore road safety teaching resources for children from the Think! campaign run by the Department for Transport.

• Visit the Child Accident Protection Trust (CAPT)