Letters to Parents and Carer

We will be hosting the Parents’ and Carers’ Guide to the Internet, ready to broadcast anywhere from schools and offices, to phones and homes... This will be a short TV-style programme which you can download or stream from the Thinkuknow site. The programme will be an entertaining and light-hearted look at what it’s like to bring up children in the online world – featuring clips and tips from some surprising sources!

The Parents' and Carers' Guide to the Internet - this will be streamed live on the Thinkuknow Parents and Carers site from 14th May.

We would like to encourage parents and carers to watch the programme from the comfort of your own homes by signposting the website https://www.bestschoolboard.com/Parents/ and sharing the event trailer online.

Keeping Up with the Joneses - a short trailer that aims to get parents and carers thinking about what their children are up to online and how they can get involved. We want this to go to as many parents and carers in the UK as possible. This will be released on 30th January.

Because of time constraints and information overload, people are forced to work even harder today to capture and keep the attention of their readers. Online marketers can tell you that simply changing a subject line can more than double their responses to email marketing messages. Think about how many emails you delete everyday without even looking at them. How many letters do you open and read, yet fail to respond to because you are too busy with other tasks. Another change is writing that is also related to information overload and time constraints is the shrinking of letter sizes. Now, this does not mean the shrinking of paper sizes, but the actual size of the message. Today’s motto is “the shorter the better”. If you were to take a look at historical letters, say those written by President Lincoln, or books that have information and/or correspondence from the nineteenth century, you would likely be amazed at the elegance and detail of these long letters.