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Safer Internet Day 2022

Safer Internet Day 8^th February 2022

Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people, and to inspire a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically, and creatively. Safer Internet Day is celebrated in over a hundred countries coordinated by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission, and national Safer Internet Centres across Europe

The UK Safer Internet Centre co-ordinates Safer Internet Day for the UK on an annual basis. They promote Digital Safety through a themed campaign.

This year the focus of their action centres around ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. Safer Internet Day 2022 is on 8th February 2022

Some resources you may like to explore are shared below.

https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2022 U

https://www.saferinternetday.org/en-GB/ U

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/o nline-safety/ U

https://www.netsmartzkids.org/ P

https://www.commonsense.org/education/SEL U

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ U

https://www.webwise.ie/ U

https://projectevolve.co.uk/about/ U

https://safety.google/families/ U

https://www.pacey.org.uk/working-in-childcare/spotlight-on/online-safety E

https://tinyurl.com/y99t6sdz U

Videos-

Detecting Lies Online- https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=KFdUBjtE45Y OP/YS

Staying Safe on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1XeJLop bg OP/YS

What can you trust online?- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXYJMrZL-w P

Online Safety Tips- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrln8nyVBLU OP/YS

CyberSecurity- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtQ21hXJ7k OP/YS

Protective Behaviours – Online safety and learning disabilities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzwFsw5Tn0 A

Online Safety & Sexting – Just Send it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7z6lMbL3mw S

For very general guidance, the resources have been categorised in the following way-

E– Early P– Primary Resources OP/YS– Older Primary/Younger Secondary S- Secondary A-Additional Support Needs U– Universal

Refreshed, Rebranded and Refocussed

Central E-Safety Partnership has transformed into WIZE – Digital Wellbeing

The Health and Wellbeing work stream within our RIC has taken on the hosting of online safety resources from the ‘Central E-safety Partnership’ blog and Facebook page, which will soon both close. The Partnership has now been rebranded as ‘WIZE- Digital Wellbeing’ and can be accessed here within our FVWL RIC blog space.

WIZE is made up of representatives of Police Scotland, and Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian Councils, as well as Further Education and Higher Education and third-sector organisations serving the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian Council areas.

WIZE will continue to help celebrate positive and safe uses of the Internet, mobile and digital technology, to reduce online and e-crime and risk of harm to children, young people, adults, and vulnerable groups in the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian Council areas.

We are currently migrating relevant resources to the WIZE blog area and will also be adding fresh ones, so please check back regularly for up-to-date online safety resources and best practice ideas.

Collaboration

Our RIC is built on a culture of collaboration. We welcome any sharing of resources or best practice with regards to online safety to disseminate across our four local authorities. You are the innovators, so we really want to hear what you have been doing to promote digital wellbeing. Contact us using the forms on the Digital Wellbeing landing page and use our hashtag #FVWLwize in your Tweets to highlight the great work you are doing!

FVWL RIC Self Evaluation Results November 2021

Please click on this pdf download link to view the results of our Self Evaluation report that was carried out between October/November 2021

Education Scotland extend coaching offer to educational staff

We are delighted to announce that Education Scotland are offering an extension to the workforce support package offer to include group coaching sessions to support health and wellbeing.

Education Scotland coaching offer to support staff health and wellbeing

One to one coaching sessions have been offered to the education profession since 2020 as part of the workforce support package funded by the Scottish Government to help practitioners in navigating the challenges caused by Covid-19. This offer has now been extended to include five additional group coaching sessions and a ‘Supporting the Supports’ group to ensure practitioners and local authority staff who are supporting others do not face isolation in the challenges of their role.

Please share this information with your network and if you have any questions about this then please don’t hesitate to contact us using the contact form below:.

Our December FVWL RIC/Education Scotland SWAY Newsletter

FVWL RIC /ES December SWAY Newsletter

Just a reminder of our equity themed December SWAY Newsletter which showcases some of the amazing work going on across our Forth Valley and West Lothian Regional Improvement Collaborative (FVWLRIC). You can see the work across our FVWLRIC workstreams, locally and nationally. This is #OurRIC so please get in touch if you would like more information, have any suggestions or if there is something you would like to share for upcoming February newsletter.

Creative Wellbeing fund launched

This is an exciting opportunity for schools to develop a creative learning project linked to wellbeing. Any group of schools can apply for this fund, with one grant being awarded per Regional Improvement Collaborative. It’s also possible to apply for the fund across RICs.

https://education.gov.scot/education-scotland/news-and-events/creativity-fund/

e-Sgoil – Higher Applications of Maths – Free National e-Learning offer

As part of a free national e-learning offer, e-Sgoil is pleased to be able to offer places on the new Higher Applications of Mathematics course.

e-Sgoil recognise that many schools who had perhaps planned to offer this new course next session may have deferred for another year due to the impact of COVID-19 on planning. e-Sgoil will deliver this course remotely via Microsoft Teams within Glow, providing learners with 250 minutes of real-time, interactive teaching per week, along with high quality, online resources to consolidate learning. It is intended to offer 2 class cohorts, each capped at 20, with learners aggregated from schools across Scotland.

Nutshell guides for schools, learners & parents are available here:

https://www.e-sgoil.com/media/1724/appofmathsschools.pdf

https://www.e-sgoil.com/media/1725/appsofmathshigher.pdf

https://www.e-sgoil.com/media/1723/appofmathsparents.pdf

FVWL RIC and Education Scotland SWAY update – May 2021

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RIC Literacy Survey

It would be helpful for our 2021-22 planning if you could take a few minutes to complete the survey below. Your feedback is important to us as, to quote a well-known Canadian rocker, “Everything we do, we do it for you…”

RIC Literacy Consultation

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Request for Chemistry and Physics recorded lessons

We are looking for practitioners to create some Chemistry and Physics recorded lessons for our RIC YouTube channel.

If you would like to be involved please complete this form.