Norfolk County Council have shared the following:

Parents / Carers Cyber Choices and Online Safety Events - Please note there are two parts to the parent events, and you will need to register for each independently. Each session will be repeated 8 times until December 2025. Both are 1 hour sessions and are suitable for parents/carers of children in Year 5 (age 9) and above. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions regarding your child’s online world.

 

Parents Event – Part 1 - Introduction to Cyber Choices and Online Risks

 This session will introduce you to the Cyber Choices programme and will provide:

• An overview to parents and carers on what cybercrime is. 
• What the risks to young people are.
• How the Cyber Choices programme supports at-risk individuals. 
• How you can refer a young person into Cyber Choices.

You will also receive an overview of:

• Some of the potential risks that children and young people may experience online.
• Advice to support parents to make informed decisions and keep their children safer online. 

 The event is free, and tickets can be book directly via:

Tuesday 25th November            10:00 – 11:00

Link

 

Parents Event – Part 2 - Tools and techniques to improve the cyber security of your family

 This session will:

• Provide advice on how to improve your personal cyber security.
• Help you to identify and protect your (and your children's) key accounts.
• Identify threats and techniques that cyber criminals may use to target you / your family.
• Highlight the benefits of family accounts.
• Identify parental controls on your router.
• Signposting to useful resources. 

Advice and guidance from the session will be in line with the Government's Stop! Think Fraud and the National Cyber Security Centres CyberAware campaign.

The event is free, and tickets can be book directly via:

Thursday 23rd October              16:00 – 17:00	Link
Tuesday 2nd December              10:00 – 11:00	Link

Mental Health

Worried about your child’s mental health?– Speak to Miss Spaul about making a referral with the Schools and Communities Team or NHS MHST Cambridgeshire Team. We want your child to enjoy their experiences at school and remember their time at Reedham as positive and happy!

https://www.justonenorfolk.nhs.uk/our-services/mhst/

FYI: 

We have been made aware that several titles in the Spy Dogs, Spy Pup, and Spy Cat series by Andrew Cope contain a weblink at the back of the book that no longer directs people to information about the books. Instead, the link now leads to inappropriate and unsafe material, containing pornographic content with no age restrictions.

If you have any of these books at home, we advise you to remove them and store them away until we have confirmation the issue has resolved.

Please be aware:

The 'Tap Out' Challenge.

This trend often involves a group of teens where one child places another child in a chokehold (forearm is placed around the other child’s neck and throat), the child performing the chokehold would then apply pressure/squeeze the neck until the child in the chokehold taps them out on their arm in which at this point the chokehold should be released. This can also involve another child “tapping in” to join the chain.  Whilst there can be no physical signs of injury following this trend it is important to be aware that this type of strangulation can lead to serious health implications in the future, including fatalities.

 

The challenge is presented in a way that downplays the risks, showing participants laughing or walking away unscathed. What they don't show are the serious risks—like brain damage or even death—that can result from asphyxiation.

 

Children and young people are not aware of how easily these actions can cause serious harm. Trends such as this can change names quickly so, please be alert, talk to children and young people about it and report anything you see.

 

Some useful websites for parents and children.