Safe internetting - do your dc or schools use Superclubsplus?

[roisin]

Superclubsplus

DS1 loves this. He's building his own site, and is learning about links, visitor counters, visitor's book, and emailing his friends from school at the same time.

I love it because it is a closed community, only for registered schools and their pupils; and has moderators too.

Also it has opening [closing] hours that I approve of, to prevent children staying up late on it
Weekdays: 8am-8pm
Weekends: 9am-12pm and 5pm-8pm
Bank Holidays: closed

I trained to be a moderator on SCP - I agree it is fab. I am not moderating as I decided I needed to get out of the house to work rather than staying in, but will certainly be encouraging my DC to use it - is a fab way of becoming competent at all sorts of computer skills and is totally safe.

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This is fab.
Has anyone else come across it?

Hi Roisin-
yes DD used it whilst at primary and now that she has moved to secondary she has moved onto Gold Star Cafe...almost the same but longer opening hours for publishing stuff. She can however access it all the time. So she can build her pages etc whilst it is 'closed' but can only make them 'live' when it is open.

live times are same as SCP but closes at 9pm

Her primary school paid for the subscription to SCP and she was then offered a free 12 months with GSC....once that is up it is £26 pa but i think it is worth it. Not all PC based either ...the other day she was womdering around the supermarket doing a questionaire about their FairTrade products.

that sounds good AQ: hope we get that too.

Last year the primary school got free subs for the students, but ds1 was told they wouldn't be available this year, so they only had very limited access.

But then they were given full access, but I don't know whether the school paid lots of money or what, but ds1 loves it.

if you don't get the free trial year of GSC you will be able to pay as a parent - and I don't think the £26 is bad value actually.

I particularly liked the live chats with a couple of authors