Film, Media & TV1 min ago
5 year old with an email address
I know he doesn't have his own addy at home (he uses mine) and I also know that the school is very keen on all children from nursery upwards to understand computers but I didn't know that my son had his own email. When I asked him he said he'd never used it and his friend's dad didn't know anything about it either.
Until tomorrow when I can ask at the school in person I just wondered if anyone else's Infant school children has on, is it common?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I've no idea why nfn- but i'd feel funny about it too. Why would a 5 year old have an email address? and god what if the spam thingy isnt on? he's gonna get alsorts flooding his inbox!
Don't forget to ask em, and dont accept any old crap- give em some welly girl!
And whilst I think about it- if it's a school thing- shouldnt you have been told about it beforehand?
Boo, I would have thought I'd have had to sign an acceptance or something. his addy is actually (not using his real name obviously)! [email protected], so in a way his name is being used. I'm really not too happy about this
the secondary school kids where i worked last year didn't have a personal school email address (although they all had hotmail accounts - NOT suggested by us!!). i think it must be a mistake.
However, do bear in mind that school networks are very secure in that there are filters on web access and the IT department will be able to see exactly what has been sent/received... so if they are being super keen on getting kids IT literate i wouldn't worry too much about his safety.
Let us know what the school says...
I work in a high school (11-18), and all the pupils can have email addresses if they want. They are issued as:
user01**@theschoolname.countyname.sch.uk
Obviously, the computers have security software, so there is no chance of viruses. It's up to the pupils how they use this facility, any misuse results in them being banned for a while. I have an email address at the school and have never received any spam, unlike if they were given an msn address. Kids now come into the school at year 7 fully conversant in ICT, they are much more able than the current year 10's and 11's. While I agree that 5year old's are a bit young to use it, email is part of the technology. Perhaps the email address is not a real, live email address at all, though - it might be there to show how the address is formatted. Look forward to hearing what the school say tomorrow!
I work in a secondary school and know that we ban sites such as hotmail because of the spam. All primary schools I know sign up to the list of very carefully selected sites (although they banned the BBC site recently which was a little embarassing). Pupils are not allowed to access their emails during school although we encourage their parents to provide us with parent emails so we can contact them with newsletters.
I dont think a primary school child needs email at school.