ear. 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 (Chapter 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