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Parents
The
Parent Centre
The Parent
Centre is for all parents and carers who want to help their
child or children to learn. It is there to offer you support,
information and advice about your child's learning and the
English education system.
Bookstart
Bookstart in the UK is the first
national books for babies programme in the world.
As Bookstart partners they aim to
provide every baby in the UK with a Bookstart pack of free books
and guidance materials.
Bullying
Practical help and advice for parents who are tackling school
bullying. They explain, step by step, how to work your way
through the education maze to make an effective complaint.
The National Association for Gifted Children
The
National Association for Gifted Children
recognises that the needs of gifted children are best met when
parents, students, education professionals, schools and colleges
are able to share a common forum and gain wider understanding of
home/school issues.
Raleigh International
Raleigh
International is a youth development charity which inspires
people from all backgrounds and nationalities to discover their
full potential by working together on challenging environmental
and community projects around the world.
The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)
The Advisory Centre for
Education (ACE) is an independent advice centre for parents,
offering information about state education in England and Wales
for 5-16 year olds. It offers free advice on many topics like
exclusion from school, bullying, special educational needs and
school admission appeals.
DFES -Bullying
This website aims to show
pupils, their families and teachers how to tackle bullying
problems. It is packed with new ideas, practical techniques and
the valuable experiences of those who have been bullied, or have
even bullied others. Such celebrities as Patsy Palmer, Jo Brand
and Alan Davies talk openly about their experiences of being
bullied at school.
Department of Health - Drugs
This site provides
information about drug education and prevention projects and
resources for those working with children and young people and
their parents and carers. Practitioners can access material to
support them in developing good practice.
Homework Elephant
Internet resources to help
complete pupil's homework assignments. Over 5,000 carefully
selected resources to assist with homework problems.
Channel4 -Homework
Students from Key Stages
1-4 can visit this site and submit questions for help on the
following subjects: English, Maths, Science, Geography, History
and Languages.
The Parent Centre
The Parent
Centre is for all parents and carers who want to help their
child or children to learn. It is here to offer you support,
information and advice about your child's learning and the
English education system.
Parents Online
This website supports the
Parents Online initiative designed to encourage parents to
understand the educational benefits of the Internet. The site is
full of age defined interactive educational sites and also
includes the latest online safety advice for parents.
Justformumz
Chat
rooms, forums, parenting and pregnancy advice for mums around
the world.
Kidscape
Kidscape is
committed to keeping children safe from abuse. Kidscape is the
only national charity dedicated to preventing bullying and child
sexual abuse. Kidscape believes that protecting children from
harm is key.
Kidscape works
UK-wide to provide individuals and organisations with practical
skills and resources necessary to keep children safe from harm.
Netmums
Netmums
is a local network for mums aimed at helping mums cope and enjoy
being a mum. Whether you're looking for a local parent and
toddler group, pre-school or childcare; are desperate for
somewhere new to take the kids; or would like to make some new
friends in your area, netmums has the answer.
What is Raleigh International?
The following websites
offer safe-surfing advice for parents and children:
GetNetWise (www.getnetwise.org):
A detailed resource provided by public-service and industry
bodies including Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo. Tips on everything
from child safety to avoiding spyware and spam.
Kidsmart (www.kidsmart.org.uk):
Safety advice for young people, schools and parents
from the children’s charity Childnet International. Includes
educational games and links to recommended child-friendly sites,
and for parents some useful tips on communicating the risks of
internet use.
Parents Online (www.parentsonline.gov.uk):
A website from the Department for Education and
Skills, aimed at keeping parents up-to-date with IT as taught in
schools. You can put questions to an “agony aunt” and to other
parents in the forums.
Chatdanger (www.chatdanger.com):
A Childnet International site designed to inform young people
about the dangers of communicating with strangers online. It has
a child-friendly design and offers advice on using chatrooms,
instant messaging, online games, e-mail, and mobile phones.
Internet Watch
Foundation (www.iwf.org.uk):
A detailed guide to online safety from the body charged with
monitoring illegal content. It is part-funded by the industry,
so its advice tends to be generic rather than product-specific.
ThinkUKnow (www.thinkuknow.co.uk):
A basic cartoon-based website from the Home Office that
introduces “the facts” about safe use of
all backgrounds and nationalities to
discover their full potential by working together on challenging
environmental and community projects around the world.
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