How one Trafford primary school is helping pupils open up

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{'text': 'Kelly Foran,in TraffordandGeorgie Docker,North West'}

{'text': 'PA Media'}

{'text': 'Issues between children continue online into the evening, the school says'}

{'text': 'A primary school has set up a lunch club to help children as young as reception open up about a whole range of issues including online safety.'}

{'text': 'Kings Road Primary School in Trafford, Greater Manchester, encourages pupils to be open on issues from homework to talking about social media also becoming more frequent.'}

{'text': 'Ann Jaffrey, network manager, said "it\'s never too young" to teach children about online safety.'}

{'text': 'Jo Whiteside (pictured above) runs sessions in The Hub on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, where children are able to share any worries or concerns which have arisen on social media'}

{'text': '"We start from Reception," she told BBC North West Tonight.'}

{'text': '"The school has a responsibility to make sure whether they\'re in school or outside school that they\'re not on anything they shouldn\'t be.'}

{'text': '"Because anything they do go on at home, is coming back into school - because of the friendship groups."'}

{'text': 'A BBC survey has revealed only 2% of Key Stage Two (ages seven to 12) teachers in the North West said they did not notice mobiles causing "social or friendship issues".'}

{'text': 'Year 4 and 5 being a growing problem.'}

{'text': 'Ann Jaffrey, Kings Road Primary School network manager, says young children need to learn online safety'}

{'text': 'Jo Whiteside, pastoral lead, said the primary school tackled issues arising from social media communications between pupil at the lunchtime club, The Hub,'}

{'text': '"Children will have fallouts here in school - and where at one time those fallouts would end at the end of the school day, now children are in WhatsApp groups and those fallouts continue into an evening," she said.'}

{'text': '"Behaviours that children show in those aren\'t the same as the ones as they would show here at school.'}

{'text': '"And I\'m picking up the pieces of those [behaviours] the following day - to try and repair those relationships with children."'}

{'text': 'The survey, conducted on TeacherApp, also revealed more than one in ten of Key Stage One (ages five to seven) teachers surveyed reported noticing these issues in children aged seven or below'}

{'text': 'The head teacher at Kings Road though believes the main issues surrounding phone use came from older children at the school.'}

{'text': 'Darren Morgan said: "It\'s mainly Year Six who have phones - I would say 80% of them do.'}

{'text': '"There\'s a lot of pressure for children to have a phone in Year Six and then that pressure increases by the time they get to Year Seven where it\'s pretty close to 100% that have phones."'}