Child Friendly Search Engine

11/05/2018

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Currently we are showing our Discoverers how to use Accessit (our Library catalogue -http://accessit.stmartins.school.nz:2000/#!dashboard ) to find great websites to help them with their inquiry work - websites which have been identified as useful and safe which they can access with a couple of clicks and without having to dive into Google.  

We're also introducing them to Kiddle (https://www.kiddle.co), a child friendly search engine which retrieves websites aimed at young students. 

We'd really appreciate it if you would bookmark these sites for them on your home computer so that they can quickly find them for their own use.  While you're there take a quick look yourself, hopefully you'll find some useful information too e.g. the parent collection available for loan under the quick lists tab. 

There are many other things that Accessit can do for our students but our focus at the moment is on quickly finding appropriate websites.  If you'd like to know more take a look at the how to use this web app video on the front page or contact me if I can clarify anything for you. 

Kind regards, 
Bridget Hayes 
Librarian
St Martins School