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WHAT IF YOUR CHILD IS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH SOMETHING ONLINE?
Encourage your child to tell a trusted adult if they ever feel awkward, embarrassed or worried by anything that they are asked to do or say by an online friend. Then the trusted adult can help them to take the appropriate form of action depending on the seriousness of the concern.
Many websites include a report abuse button. If you can’t find one you can access it here.
MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES
We want everyone to make informed choices when accessing different websites on the internet, thinking about who the site was made for and why can help us to decide whether it is a good source of information. It is important for the young people to be responsible about the sites that they visit, if they aren’t sure that a website is suitable, the message is to not access it at all.
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EXTREMISM AND RADICALIZATION
The school are currently developing resources to address extremism and radicalization as part of a wider school focus on what it means to be British.
Following our E-Safety Expert’s Challenge Topic, in which year 6 children teach their peers about a range of E-Risks (such as Phishing, Scams, Viruses, Worms – see our E-Safety page) we then discuss grooming in relation to extremism and radicalisation. Below is a copy of the PowerPoint used to stimulate discussion (adapted from training delivered in school and a presentation by Mark Lloyd – Knetic Learning.org).
Along side this discussion, and as part of our mutual respect concenpt, we also explore the use of “Gay” as a derogatory term. Below is a copy of the PowerPoint used to stimulate discussion (again adapted from a presentation by Mark Lloyd – Knetic Learning.org).
E-SAFETY IN THE CURRICULUM
RECEPTION – Reception start by reading most of the book entitled PeguinPig (we stop before the end). The story centres on a little girl who finds a brand new creature and decides to go in search of it at the zoo. Instead she finds a fierce bear. Following the story, the children try to find a PenguinPig on the internet. As an extension, they also explore if bears like to play. Following this, we discuss if we can trust everything we find online. Mozilla X-Ray Goggles are used on a website of their choice to show the children that online content can be altered. We then read the end of the story which encourages the little girl “ask an adult if you should believe or just forget”.
Reception also cover E-Safety themes in their classroom lessons on British values individual liberty lesson. The following tweet was shared after the most recent lesson was delivered!
YEAR 1 – The primary focus in Key Stage 1 is to get the children to reflect on what technology they use. As a result, we start by thinking about what different kinds of computers we use at home and at school, we even make a pictogram to show this.
We then talk about what we do on the “computers” and how we can stay safe as well as thinking about tips we need to follow when using our technology. We also look at how using ICT is different to when we are playing and talking with friend in real life. This is linked to anti-bullying week using the story of Digi-Duck – http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/teachers/ks1/digiduck.aspx. Later in the year, the children consolidate their understanding by exploring the Hector’s World series and then producing their own version of the story based around the themes of episode 1 (please see an example below).
YEAR 2 – Building on the themes of Year 1, in Year two we again look at what kind of technology we use and how we use it both at home and at school. Again we explored the story of Digi-Duck but this time we looked more closely at who you could tell if something happened in the online world. Pupils use this to produce a poster.
In order to widen their understanding, the children then look at Sid’s Smart rules and create a podcast to offer advice to others. You can see some of our finished podcasts in the video below.
YEAR 3 – Key Stage 2 use The Smart Crew Videos (Ch