Your child's doing their homework on their laptop.  You glance at the screen, and see, ‘POS,' just as your offspring switches to the Geography homework window.  What does it mean?  That was just one of the interesting - and somewhat disquieting - questions posed by Alton Convent School deputy head, Elizabeth Hoyes, at her talk on internet safety last week.

Some, but not all of the audience, knew the answer to this particular question.  POS means "parent over shoulder," and is one of many abbreviations used by the young to signal to others and avoid parental detection.  Similarly, PAW means "parents are watching," and this, Mrs Hoyes advised, is what parents should be doing from time to time. 

Mrs Hoyes was speaking as the named person for Child Protection in the school and also as someone who had investigated the subject in considerable depth. Her talk, illustrated by PowerPoint slides and video footage, was gratefully received, as the questions and statements of support that followed it clearly indicated.

The last lesson we had on Tuesday was ICT. Mr Berry explained that we were going to make some Aztec inspired art. We started by making a 45° wedge. We then made little coloured rectangles inside. After that we reflected it so that we had two but we  didn’t have to do any more work to make the second one. We then grouped these two together and rotated them round three times in all to make eight copies in a circle. At the end of the lesson I started taking the original lines off. It was lots of fun and a great end to the day.

Mr Hicks has helped us make an animation about two people and a cat who get to be models. We had a great time making the video and learning about all the processes involved. It's called "Models Wanted Animation", and you can see it on YouTube.

Creative Arts Week was an amazing experience. My favourite activity was doing Terragen on the computer with Mr Berry. It was incredible to be able to create a realistic photo with amazing detail and scenery without having to move from the computer. All the other activities were great fun too. It was a really great week, and I really enjoyed it.