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Digital Citizenship Parent’s Evening

Are you ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ in a world you didnโ€™t grow up in? Perhaps your son plays Fortnite or watches YouTube clips? Perhaps your daughter adores TikTok or Instagram?
๐—œ๐—ณ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜, and you are battling to manage your childโ€™s screen time, you have to attend this event!

Union will be hosting a parentโ€™s evening on Thursday evening, 5 May from 17:30 in the Union High School Hall.ย  Registration for this event costs R50 and can be done at the following link https://www.quicket.co.za/events/169169-cyber-smarts-parents-evening/#/ or with Ms Moos at Union High School reception.

Topics that will be covered with parents during the parentsโ€™ evening include:
โ€ข A parent’s role: Monitoring & Mentoring
โ€ข Harmful content
โ€ข Pornography & addiction
โ€ข Online predators
โ€ข Filtering software
โ€ข Safe Gaming
โ€ข Social Media
โ€ข Sexting & Cyberbullying
โ€ข Setting boundaries & digital citizenship
โ€ข Being a digital role model
๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด!

Click here for more information on Screen Smarts and the grade specific workshops planned for Unionโ€™s Digital Citizenship Week

Sport Results

Cricket: U/13A vs Gill Primary

On Wednesday afternoon, 2 March, Unionโ€™s ๐˜‚/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ๐—” ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ faced their Gill Primary School counterparts in a 20-over encounter on Unionโ€™s Puttick Field.
Union lost the toss and bowled first.
Consistent pressure by Unionโ€™s bowlers led to a few early wickets and resulted in Gill only managing to score 45 runs for seven wickets in their allotted twenty overs. Unionโ€™s best bowler was ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ž๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ถ who took 5 wickets for 6 runs in his 4 overs.
Union then went in to bat. Opening batsmen ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ž๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ถ and ๐—ฉ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—–๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ got the team off to a good start with a partnership of 25 runs. Union managed to pass Gillโ€™s score in the 9th over.
Unionโ€™s best batsman was ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ž๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ถ with 29 runs not out.
Union won the game by 9 wickets.
๐˜ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด!