Class Three- Parent Workshop
20 Jun 2024
Invitation to NewsWise family workshop
This term, your child's class is taking part in NewsWise. NewsWise is a news literacy project for 9-11 year olds across the UK. Our resources and workshops give children and their families the skills to understand how the news is made, identify fake news and misleading information and produce their own news.
As part of this project, you and your child have been invited to attend an exciting NewsWise workshop.
Your child and
one adult family member (parent/carer/grandparent/adult sibling) will take part in a fun, interactive workshop learning about fake news.
The workshop has been designed in collaboration with parents to address their concerns about the news. Activities will address:
- Identifying trustworthy information and sources online
- Distinguishing between rumour, fact, opinion and speculation online
- How pictures online can be misleading
- How information is targeted at us online
- How we can look after our wellbeing when reading/ watching/ listening to the news
This is an exciting opportunity for you to learn more about what your children have been doing in their NewsWise lessons. The workshop will also help to build your confidence and knowledge about spotting fake news and misleading information online, so you can support your child to do this. Attending the workshop will also help support your child’s writing in school, as this is part of a wider project about writing news reports about a real news story happening in their local area. The workshop will encourage interest in the news and discussion of the news at home; this will help them write great news reports in class.
The workshop will take place at school. Light refreshments will be provided. Any siblings who will not be at school or nursery are welcome to attend. Everything you need for the workshop will be provided by the NewsWise team.
All NewsWise staff will be working to the Guardian Foundation safeguarding Code of Conduct (available to request from the school).
NewsWise family workshop details:
Date: Tuesday 2nd July
Time: 09:00 - 10:30
Location: School
Please return the attached form -
-parent workshop consent.docx-