apter 4 – Who Should You Tell) – http://www.childnet.com/resources/the-adventures-of-kara-winston-and-the-smart-crew/chapter1 – to explore top tips for staying safe online. Again, the focus in the Autumn term is cyber-bullying to fit in with anti-bullying week.
The resources are then revisited in the Spring and Summer terms to cover topics such as What Should You Share and Meeting Up online. Pupils use the information they obtain to create top tips for others which are put on display. Pupils then create their own avatars and use them to share top tips based on http://old.kidsmart.org.uk/stayingsmart/.
YEAR 4 – Year 4 again uses Chapter 4 in The Smart Crew series but this time expands the tips given using their own research skills. They use the information they find to create multimedia presentations which they then delivere to the class (please see examples below). The children also watch Chapter 5 – What Should I Keep Safe, which is used as a discussion point before they produce blog entries on their favourite part of outdoor learning week. This is consolidated later in the year, when the children blog using an online nickname/persona.
YEAR 5 – After learning about how search engines function, Year 5 put their new found research skills to good use and find out more about the consequences and solutions to cyber-bullying. They use this information to produce a comic which includes a type of cyber-bullying, a solution and a consequence. This leads on to a wider discussion about what to do if you find something inappropriate online, including the role of moderators.
Later in the year, the children produce their own online safety video entitled “Mr Arthur and the Smart Crew” (please see below for an example) based on the “Tara and the Smart Crew” resource which is then used with lower key stage 2.
Year 5 also explore how reliable different sources are on the internet. This includes looking at when information was written, who wrote it, why it was written (bias) and if it can be changed or edited. Again moderators are a point of discussion.
YEAR 6 – Building of the validity of different sources, Year 6 take at closer look at how Wikis function and how this might affect weather we can trust the information. As well as exploring the author, age and purpose of the information they also look at how domain names (and how easy they now are to buy) can affect if we trust information.
Year 6 also take part in Mr Arthur’s Expert’s Challenge which allows us to teach the class about a brand new topic. These include computer viruses, malware, firewalls, spam, identity theft and phishing. We look at what they are and how we could either avoid them or what to do if we become a victim of any of the above. How they achieve this is their decision, although most groups opt for using PowerPoint. Please see some examples below.
E-Risks and solutions are then consolidated later in the year through discussion (see tables below). The children then use a layered editing program (Photoshop Free Online, Paint.net) to produce posters.
THE BASE – The Base have a flexible program of study that revolves around meeting both the Pupil Asset objectives and PIVATS in different ways each year. This has included using Hector’s World to discuss the topic of E-Safety. After each episode we discussed with the children how this should impact the way they use ICT. Prior to this we had discussed how they use the internet/ICT and spend some time talking about the importance of playing games that are age appropriate.
We have also used Padlet to create a collaborative mind map which explored what we would do if we found something “naughty” when using technology. The points raised were then consolidated using a quiz produced using Kahoot.
E-Safety is of paramount importance to us. As well as regularly planning dedicated curriculum time to the topic, tips and discussion points are often covered informally either as part of another topic or as part of informal chat (upper Key Stage 2 children are particularly proactive in questioning hot topics they have heard on the news 