Money Hack Ttrockstars
Zee Palmer
We want to reassure you that the perpetrator isn't an anonymous hacker from far away. Instead, the culprit is another child in the same school or even the same class who has logged in with the "victim's" username and password.
If someone has spent your money then we're very sorry to hear this. The good news is your teacher can get your money back and change your password. Remember not to share your password with anyone, not even with a friend.
If you were the child who logged into someone else's account and spent their money - YOU MAY BE CAUGHT, even if you did this from home. You need to consider how upset you've made the person whose money you've spent.
A good rockstar is an honest rockstar and that sort of behaviour is dishonest. You should promise to yourself to not do that again and apologise to the other person who worked hard to earn that money.
In the very early days of TT Rock Stars, the SHINE Trust supported the scaling from 3 classes to 3000 with a grant. The grant was paid back in full once we could afford it, as a way to give back and "leave the ladder down" for the next teacher with an idea for an intervention.
During lockdown, we worked with BT Sport and BT Tech Tips to produce some awesome 'All Stars v Rock Stars' short videos, sports and tv celebrities played TT Rock Stars against UK primary school children. Take a look!
TT Rock Stars was created at a school in London back in 2010 so it's where our ancestral home is! Each year, both NumBots and TT Rock Stars support the week long event with resources and a competition, London Rocks!
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS create a new title for the fastest player on TTRS! All entries needed to submit a video of their highest score being achieved. You can find the current title holder in the 2023 annual and watch her winning attempt on YouTube by searching for "TT Rock Stars world record".
National Numeracy is a charity that aimes to raise the numeracy of everyone (adults, especially) in the UK. Every year, in May, we promote National Numeracy Day and in 2022 we even got a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title together for the most number of people on a maths YouTube livestream.
Long-term friends in the school space, Move & Learn specialise in getting children active while doing maths. We've collaborated in a few ways over the years, more recently on an activity for Maths Week Scotland.
NSPCC is a UK-based charity seeking to prevent cruelty to children. Since 2015, we've supported their signature school fundraising event, Number Day. Both TT Rock Stars & NumBots provide fun activities and competitions to boost the money raised by schools, topped up by our own annual donation.
All children have these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or a girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis.
On Friday 7th May we took part in raising money for the NSPCC charity. Thank you to everyone who supported the event by donating money, dressing up and playing TT Rock Stars! Blanford Mere managed to raise a total of 260.85. In the UK, a total of 1,477 schools, 8,498 classes, 90,365 pupils took part and answered a grand total of 32,601,160 questions correctly. Blanford Mere came 659th overall. Year 6 were the overall winners for our school with Year 5 in 2nd and Year 4 in 3rd.
In Reception this week, the children have been learning about Tigers. As part of their literacy focus, they have explored the story, 'The Tiger who came to Tea'. The children created their own invitations by applying their phonic skills to their writing. Children have also had the opportunity to make a variety of tiger-related artwork, one particular activity looked at collaging the repeating patterns for the tiger's stripes, linking to shape, space and measure. Alongside this, children have engaged with their topic work by watching videos and reading non-fiction texts about where tigers live, what they eat and why they need to be protected. The children have all thoroughly enjoyed their learning this week!
In Year 1, we have really enjoyed the start of our new Topic - The Seaside! We have been learning about the characters from traditional Punch and Judy shows. In D&T, we have been designing our own split pin characters to add to the story, and we've begun to write a script of our own puppet shows including Punch, Judy and our new character. It wasn't a route we originally intended to go down, but it's been a wonderful experience to allow the children to guide their own learning. They are all superstars!
Year Two designed their own bug hotels last week linked to their topic in Science 'Living things and their habitat'. Today, they have made their bug hotels following their designs from last week. The children will then be evaluating their bug hotels and comparing them with each other. We are using natural materials such as sticks, bark and leaves. The children had a wonderful time exploring!
"This week, we have been creating a non-chronological report for a rainforest animal that we created ourselves. My animal was part of the monkey family but it had four snake heads! I really enjoyed making up all the facts about my animal - including its appearance, diet and habitat." Mason D
"This week we did our end of unit test for Rocks in Science. I've really enjoyed learning about rocks and fossils and doing lots of investigations including testing different rocks to see how hard and how permeable they were. I remembered lots of our rocks work, did really well in my test and feel very proud of myself." Leonie J
3/4D and 3/4C have been drumming with Del from Dudley Performing Arts this half term, with 3/4O commencing their sessions this week. The children have had the opportunity to play a range of drums, including the bass drum, kettle drum and tambourine. They have learnt how to change the pitch, tempo and dynamics when playing, as well as creating their own beats with notes of varying lengths. The sessions began with each small group rehearsing their individual parts and ended in a fantastic, rhythmic performance as a whole-class ensemble.
For the past few weeks Year 5-6 have been engaged in a visual text called Road's End. We really enjoyed the video and have written a narrative and newspaper report about the strange happenings on an isolated road in the middle of a desert!
RRSA Champions met in a 'socially distanced' way last week to discuss children's rights. They have been working hard in their classrooms to ensure their peers are respecting their own rights and those of others. They have been given a task to explore rights with their class and will be meeting again after half term to share their findings.
One-word answers don't help us reconnect with our children after a long day apart from each other. This is a great list of suggested questions you can use to create great discussions. Happy talking! Mrs. Cartwright
We have a number of parents who tell us that their children are receiving upsetting messages from children in school when at home, on social media sites such as: WhatsApp', 'Snapchat' 'Facebook' etc. We have talked to children, in lesson's about how to keep safe online. We would urge parents to report the incidents to CEOP as this is a matter that arises out of school. Please type the link into a search engine, this will give you a wealth of information about keeping your child safe online.
In order to avoid these sorts of situations in the first place, it's worth sitting down with your child before they start using any website and reading the terms and conditions to learn what is, and what isn't, acceptable on the site.
You should check whether your child is old enough to have an account with a particular social media website. Many sites including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Ask.fm and ooVoo require users to be 13 years old and will deactivate the accounts of any users suspected to be under this age.
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