Playing with Fire
This week year 6 and year 5 were treated to an amazing drama presentation by Redbridge drama centre which dealt with the benefits and dangers of social media. The performance, titled “Playing with Fire” depicted the obsessive relationship young people often have with their mobile devices, and showed just how dangerous the attachment to a mobile phone can potentially be.
The play focused on showing how a child became distracted from her school work and her family, as well as her role in bullying peers via social media groups.
The show also exemplified the detrimental effects social media can have on the confidence of young people, as well as how small mishaps can be blown out of proportion.
It showed our students the dangers that can come from misusing and not thinking about what messages and images they are sending to both their friends and possible strangers. They also discussed the legal issues with sending and forwarding inappropriate images or messages.
Parents were invited to watch the same presentation on Wednesday evening and feedback was amazing. One parent said “I never knew that there were age restrictions to these apps”, another was shocked at how easily things could quickly get out of hand and that there were no real ways of stopping images circulating the web once they have been posted.
The drama presentation was followed by a Q&A session and many parents have requested for more information. We hope to follow up this in the near future.
More information can be obtained from the following links:
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/16070885.Students__play_with_fire__as_they_learn_about_dangers_of_mobile_phones/
https://mobile.twitter.com/redbridgedrama/status/951414567564963840
