E-Safety @ St James'

Esafety Video!

Mrs Mahapatra — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:16:46 +0000

Y6 children have developed a set of rules that everyone should use when they are online in order to stay safe. During a recent visit to the Central Manchester CLC at Trinity High School, the children were filmed presenting their rules using green screen technology and this is the resulting video. They were particularly pleased to have this opportunity to experience life as TV presenters – I’m sure you will agree that we have several stars of the future on our school!

This short film enjoyed its premiere this evening at our Esafety Meeting for Parents and Carers and we would now like to share this with the world. We hope you enjoy our video and find it informative.

Please leave us a comment to let us know what you think of it. Thank you for watching!

E-safety Rules

Mrs Mahapatra — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:43:38 +0000

Following on from the work that staff started on developing a set of rules for e-safety that can be shared with everyone in the St James’ community (staff, children, families and friends,) Y6 has been working very hard on coming up with some easy to remember rules that use mostly positive rather than negative language. We had a lot of discussion about which were in their opinion, the most important messages and what order they should go in.

These rules are not a definitive list but are a good starting point for your to talk to your children about the importance of e-safety. You can see examples of these rules around school, in the ICT suite and here on this site under the Y6 posters post.

E-safety posters

Mr Sutton — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:35:39 +0000

Year 6 have been producing e-safety posters at school.

Teaching Search and Evaluating Websites

Mr Sutton — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:13:42 +0000

Here are some weblinks relating to the teaching of search as mentioned in the staff meeting:

Teaching Boolean search:

http://www.boolify.org

Blog posts relating to Boolean search: http://creativeict.typepad.com/my_weblog/search/

Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

Creative Commons Search Tools

Flickr’s Creative Commons search tool: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Another Flickr image search tool: http://www.compfight.com/ (includes a safe search option)

A Flickr search based on colour: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#

A thematic Flickr search and display tool: http://www.splashr.com

Creative Commons: another search tool incorporating Google image search: http://search.creativecommons.org/

Search scheme of work: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYa5dxypo0lXZGN2Z2RoZ2ZfMzloa2Y0M213cA&hl=en

Or here as a Word doc: cms.lgfl.net/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=217174&name=DLFE-6904.doc

Evaluating Websites

Year 3: The Tomato spider

Year 4/5: The Northwest pacific Tree Octopus

Year 4/5: All About Explorers

Year 6: Dihydrogen Monoxide

Ofsted report on e-safety

Mr Sutton — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:38:54 +0000

Ofsted have just published a report on e-safety. It’s definitely worth reading the executive summary at least:

http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Browse-all-by/Documents-by-type/Thematic-reports/The-safe-use-of-new-technologies

What are the implications for St James’?

What Inset might be needed to improve e-safety?
To what extent would staff prefer to have a more open but monitored web connection compared to a locked down filtered web?

E-safety teaching to become compulsory

Mr Sutton — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:18:31 +0000

From Sepember 2011 the teaching of e-safety will be a compulsory part of the curriculum for all school age children (it’s already compulsory at secondary level). See DCSF press release.

Ofsted are already mandated to evaluate the effectiveness of schools in ensuring children are safe when using the internet (see page 50 of the Ofsted Evalaution Schedule).

The SMART Rules from Childnet

Mr Sutton — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:19:22 +0000

It seems that many people felt that the list of rules drafted by children at Lidget Green contained too many negatives and were too complex. As an alternative, how about using the SMART rules from Childnet? http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/beingsmart/ takes you to the site with some great resources to embed the rules into school.

Click here to download this poster.

Developing a set of rules: 2nd December

Mr Sutton — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:01:05 +0000

The purpose of the meeting is to review the new e safety blog and the resources contained therein. There is also a new e-safety scheme of work on the Teacher’s page of this blog (see menu on right). Please review this scheme of work and identify areas where you may need training or resources to deliver it. At the end of the session we would also like to have a list of simple child friendly rules concerning the use of ICT to be displayed in every classroom, discussed with the children and sent home to parents.

Look at the resources on the e-safety blog in keystages;
Read the scheme of work for e-safety for your phase highlighting any training issues or other queries you might have. Make notes and return to HM;
Work on a simple set of rules for the use of ICT within school suitable for your keystage;
Convene in Y6 at 1620 for feedback.

Here is a set of rules written by Year 6 pupils at Lidget Green Primary School, in Bradford which we could use as a starting point:

1. Log out after you have finished
2. Don’t give out personal information
3. Don’t go on a website without checking with an adult
4. Make sure you know who you are talking to
5. Don’t talk to people you don’t know
6. Don’t download anything without checking with an adult
7. Respect copyright
8. Don’t use abusive language or rude words. Be polite, be respectful
9. Use Safesearch or a children’s search engine
10. If you want to upload pictures check with an adult first
11. Report abuse and unsuitable sites
12. Don’t tell anyone your password
13. Don’t use anyone else’s account
14. Don’t sign up for anything without checking first.
15. Don’t open any files you have been sent without checking with an adult first.

Is 15 too many? Are they simple and clear enough for the younger children? should we have a separate set of rules for younger children? Too negative?Please leave a comment below with any discussion points, ideas or suggestions you would like to raise.

Safe use of Technology: Staff Meeting

Mr Sutton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:25:37 +0000

Staff Meeting 7th October 2009

Kent County Council have produced an excellent guidance document entitled Safe Practice with Technology. It answers the following key questions concerning adult use of technology in an educational setting:

Should I use my mobile phone to take photographs of children?
Should I continue to use Facebook?
Should I have pupils as friends on MSN?
What is my responsibility for the use of my school laptop at home?
What is inappropriate material?
How should I store personal data safely?
How can I use ICT safely in a pastoral setting?
How can I safely monitor school network use?
Can my school limit my private online publishing?