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National Online Safety - TikTok

TikTok is a video-sharing social media app which lets people create, view and download looping 15-second clips. Typically, these are videos of users lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs or soundbites (often for comic purposes), enhanced with filters, effects and text. 

Please find below a poster of tips and advice from National Online Safety regarding Tik Tok, an increasingly popular app used by children. The age limit for this is 13, but as with many social media apps we find children below this age use them. This guide might answer any questions you may have about the app.

The Red Box Project

WSfG is pleased to restart the Redbox project for all tutor groups across the school. As you may know, the Redbox project provides a much-needed service giving all students access to sanitary products in a discrete manner.

The Redbox project has proved a very popular service in the past, and students have highlighted how important it is to have access to sanitary products when needed.

Unfortunately, the charitable funding for this project is no longer available.

Therefore, we would like to ask anyone in our school community who is able to donate any of the following products to the school’s Redbox Project:

• Sanitary pads (new, closed packs)

• Tampons (new, closed packs)

If you would like to donate any of the above products, please send them in with your child to school. Your child should bring them to Student Services, where the products will be distributed across tutor groups to ensure every student has access to sanitary products when needed.

In addition, a supply of sanitary products will be available via Student Services for any student who needs them.

We hope you feel able to donate to this important project to ensure all students have access to these essential products whenever needed.

Ms R Schaber

LBWF Domestic Abuse Drop In

Contact Information

Dear Parents/Carers

Please ensure that we hold your most up-to-date contact information in case of an emergency. Details can be updated via the SIMS Parent App. Please contact the front office if you require any help accessing the app.

If you need to contact a staff member, please use our main switchboard number on 0208 509 9446, which is open between 8am and 4.15pm.

Emails can also be sent to info@wsfg.waltham.sch.uk and the message will be passed on to the relevant staff member.

Thank you

Front Office

Using the School LRC Computer System from Home

Our LRC system, Microlibrarian.net, is available for you to use at home. All students have their own
log-in and the system is accessible via the school website and via this link.

There are links to external websites which can support homework and are suitable for the age group of all students across the school.

We hope you enjoy using the system and encourage you to add reviews about the books you are reading.

Accelerated Reader

At Walthamstow School for Girls we place great importance on developing reading and understanding skills, which ultimately impacts immensely across the whole curriculum and benefits students as they progress towards their GCSEs.

Renaissance Learning (responsible for our Accelerated Reading lessons) provides students with access to numerous online books from a huge variety of genres through their myON service. We cannot stress enough the importance of maintaining regular reading, and then quizzing on the books read to indicate understanding of the content.

We would like to encourage our students to continue with their Accelerated Reader (AR) lessons - reading and quizzing as often as possible. AR lessons in school are only a small part of the need for reading, as it is recommended that all students read for a minimum of 30 minutes per day. Reading should be both pleasurable and a way of extending learning. In addition, this can be a fun activity for all the family - read, discuss and challenge one another in a variety of ways: understanding, changing characters, guess endings, change endings - the ideas are plentiful

Here are the links to both websites:

Renaissance Learning (Accelerated Reader)

myON online books

If there are any problems, please contact the info@ email and ask for your concern to be forwarded to Ms Buchanan.

Advice for Parents/Carers from National Online Safety

Violence Against Women and Girls Project (VAWG)

Dear Parents and Carers

WSFG is working in partnership with various organisations in the Borough to raise awareness of violence against women and girls in Waltham Forest.

As a girl's school, we are a hub for young women to learn about this external challenge that can affect the well being of all. This project is aimed at Years 8-10 in particular.

The main focus of the project is building support in preventing and offering early help in relation to VAWG.

WSFG is one of a few secondary schools in Waltham Forest to embrace this whole school approach to this issue.

Ms Pratt
Assistant Headteacher

Mobile Phones

All Years

Mobile phones MUST be handed into the school office during the school day for safe keeping.

If you are caught with your mobile phone during the school day, it will be confiscated from you for 48 hours and your parent / carer will be asked to collect it from school.

Phones must NOT be used on the school premises either before or after school hours, or again they will be confiscated for 48 hours.

If you wish to use your mobile phone after school you must leave the premises to do so, but ensure that you use it safely.

Ms Pratt
Assistant Headteacher

Valuables in Tutor Rooms

Please do NOT leave PE kits, bags or any valuable possessions in your Tutor Room at break or lunchtime, as they will be unsupervised.

Please take responsibility for your own possessions and use your lockers for storage of PE kits, bags and other valuables during non-lesson time.

Thank you

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National Online Safety - TikTok

The Red Box Project

LBWF Domestic Abuse Drop In