Fishergate Primary School Parent Partnership

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Family Matters York, Parent Partnership

Family Matters Courses – “Are you ready for 2024?!”

Please see below information from York Family Matters about their courses and events starting in the new year.

Where has the time gone?! 2023 has flown by! How can it nearly be 2024 already?

Apparently ‘time flies when you’re having fun’. At Family Matters York we do hope that you and your family have had some fun times over this last year. We hope you have been able to chat together, laugh together and make memories together.

As we look forward to 2024, we trust that it will bring you more opportunities to enjoy your family. But, we also know that family life is a real mix of ups and downs. We would love to help support you and your family in 2024, to help make the ‘ups’ even better and the ‘downs’ more manageable. Dealing with family life can be both joyful and stressful, exciting and scary, magical and unpredictable….all at the same time! Let us help you in this coming year to handle family life with more confidence, feeling better equipped to manage all that family life brings.

Sign up TODAY for our FREE parenting and couples support. Get those dates in your diary ready for 2024!

Have a fantastic Christmas & New Year with your family

See you in 2024!

Love from the Family Matters York team xFamily Matters York

Parenting Support

Wednesday mornings
9am coffee, 9.30-11.30am session (5 weeks) starting 24th January
@ St Peter’s School, YO30 6AB

To sign up click here  
For information flyer click here
Or contact Jen for more details : jenwootten@fmy.org.uk; 07393 147259

Monday evenings
7 – 9pm (5 weeks) starting 19th February 2024
@York High, Cornlands Rd, YO24 3WZ

To sign up click here  
For information flyer click here
Or contact Jen for more details : jenwootten@fmy.org.uk; 07393 147259

Thursday evenings
7.30 -9.30pm (4 weeks) starting 29th February
@ St Giles’ Church, Copmanthorpe YO23 3SE

To sign up click here  
For information flyer click here
Or contact Jen for more details : jenwootten@fmy.org.uk; 07393 147259

Couples Support

Friday 2nd February
7.30 – 9.30pm 
@ St Pauls Church, Holgate Road Acomb, York, England, YO24 4BF 

For more information about this event click here or for a flyer click here.
Book your free tickets here. 
Or contact Emma for more details : emmamarshall@fmy.org.uk; 07491 910239

Sessions available all year round at a mutually agreed time.

To make an enquiry click here
For information flyer click here
Or contact Emma for more details : emmamarshall@fmy.org.uk;  07491 910239

E-safety Tips, Parent Partnership

E-safety Advice for Families at Christmas

Families may find the following guides helpful over the festive season. Whether your family chooses a tech-free Christmas, or are using new devices, we wish you all a very happy, and safe, Christmas. 

12 Top Tips for Children and Young People to Enjoy a Tech-Free Christmas

With Christmas right around the corner, millions of families are excitedly anticipating the chance to spend some quality time with each other over the festive season. When everyone’s engrossed in their phones or glued to their games consoles, however, genuinely meaningful moments with loved ones can often be difficult to orchestrate. 

Our Christmas #WakeUpWednesday guide will lend a hand: providing some advice on helping young people to set aside their devices for a while and live in the moment. Even if going full tech cold turkey feels unrealistic, implementing just a few of these tips could still decrease the amount of screen time in your home this festive season – enabling everyone to make the most of it.

Top Tips for Setting up Parental Controls on New Devices

At this time of year, it’s highly possible that you have a new phone, games console or other digital device stashed somewhere at home, ready to be unwrapped. Many parents also prefer to place some protective measures on those gifts – to keep their child shielded from potential #OnlineSafety risks – while others would like to, but aren’t sure where to begin.

The guide below shepherds you through the process of establishing parental controls on new internet-enabled devices, from smartphones to laptops to consoles. Simply find the device in question and read on to find out what options you have and how to enable them – letting children enjoy their shiny new gadget, without so much of the worry over where it might lead them.

Click the images for larger .pdf versions of the guides

These guides are from National Online Safety.

E-safety Tips, Parent Partnership

E-safety Advice for Families – Safer Online Shopping

Top Tips for Safer Online Shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Gone are the days of Black Friday only existing in the physical environs of the high street. Now, both this retail landmark and its sister event, Cyber Monday, see deals and discounts displayed across almost every online retailer. The array of reductions makes this an ideal moment to treat a loved one (or yourself!) to those treasured items for considerably less than their usual cost.

The frantic dash for the best bargains online, however, also harbours several risks: chiefly, cybercriminals hoping to exploit people’s excitement and hoodwink them out of their hard-earned cash. This #WakeUpWednesday has some expert pointers on keeping your both your money and your personal information safe while still making the most of the spectacular sales.

Grab our new guide below!National Online Safety

Click for a larger .pdf version!

 

This guide is from National Online Safety.

Friends of Fishergate, Parent Partnership

Donation Day on Monday 4th December for the School Christmas Fair

Please deliver your wonderful donations for the school fair from 8.45 – 9.00am (drop-off) into the lower school hall. Helpers at tables will be waiting for your kind and generous offerings.

This year we are looking donations along the following lines:

Chocolate Tombola

  • Chocolate items, gifts and treats
  • Boxes, bars, biscuits, any size, any shape & any flavour!

Bottle Tombola

  • Wines, beer, cider, sparkling wines, spirits, posh cordials, mixers, liqueurs, sherry, port, tonics, pop, sparkling water.
  • Bottles must be UNOPENED to be accepted.
  • Please note any children that win a bottle of alcohol must have their adult collect it.

General Tombola

  • We are looking for NEW or unwanted new giftable items
  • Perfume, toiletries, items for the home & garden.
  • Gadgets, games, toys.
  • Clothing, accessories and more…

Raffle Prizes

  • Larger value items
  • Vouchers
  • Hamper food items – non perishable food and drink items of all kinds kindly welcomed.

Filled Jam Jars. (Be creative as you like here)

  • Please collect your clean glass ‘jam jars’ of any size and fill them with whatever goodies you can fit inside!
  • Think mini stationary, crafting, sewing, small toys, puzzles, collectors cards (lego, Pokémon, football etc) stickers, sweets, loose change (£1 or more), hair accessories, small figures, badges, fun jewellery, temporary tattoos

Handmade Christmas Decorations/Makes

  • Wreaths, foliage arrangements, table decorations (can be dropped on the morning of the fair
  • Tree decorations and ornaments
  • Seasonal Bunting
  • Recycled or aromatic Christmas curiosities.
  • Handmade/recycled redesigned Christmas Cards
  • Seasonal Homemade Preserves & Chutneys (unopened, labelled and dated pls)

Teddy Tombola

  • Soft Toys, Teddies, Plushies & Characters
  • A great way to recycle and de-clutter unwanted and outgrown cuddlies
  • Please ensure that all items are clean, preferably washed and in good usable (and lovable) condition.

Thank you in advance for all your support, every little bit counts to make our Fishergate Christmas Fair the success that it is. Be a part of it in any way you can!

P.s The Friends of Fishergate Primary School Christmas Fair is on Friday 8th December at 3.30pm!! More details coming soon!Friends of Fishergate