Category Archives: Internet Safety

Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Technologies

P6 Internet Safety Aware!

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Primary 6 have focused on developing our awareness of how to be safe online.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to identify online internet safety issues

Success Criteria.

We can identify a variety of strategies available to us to keep safe online.

We can identify where to go to report online issues

We can use websites to access information and use guidance in an appropriate way.

During our Health sessions, we investigated CEOP and what it means for children who use the internet, whether using a PS4, an iPad or another device.

We used “Think You Know” to examine different advice about how we can keep ourselves safe.  We participated in a mature and responsible discussion about known issues and how we can talk to a trusted adult about online written abuse or content which is in appropriate.

We created keeping safe online posters to highlight the issue further, making sure that we used the icon for CEOP as a way of reporting internet content.

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Curriculum Areas, Internet Safety, Primary 1, Technologies

Internet safety Day in Primary 1b

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LI: We are learning about sharing information safely online.

SC: I can identify information which is safe to share online.

SC: I can identify information which is not safe to share online.

To celebrate Internet Safety Day, Primary 1b have been exploring how to stay safe online. We watched a very interesting cartoon called ‘Hector’s World’ which helped us to understand what types of personal information are safe or not safe to share online. After watching and discussing the cartoon, we demonstrated what we had learned through an activity. Brandon held up a ‘yes’ sign, and Finlay held up a ‘no’ sign. The children had to respond to the following questions by running to the correct sign.

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Is it safe to share your name online or with a stranger?

The children all answered ‘no’.

Is it safe to share your age online or with a stranger?

The children all answered ‘no’.

Is it safe to share your address online or with a stranger?

The children all answered ‘no’.

Is it safe to share your school online or with a stranger?

The children all answered ‘no’.

Is it safe to share a nickname online?

The children all answered ‘yes’.

Is it safe to share your name, age, address or school with an adult that you know and trust?

The children all answered ‘yes’.

We all agreed that the only information we would share online would be a nickname. To help us remember, we worked in pairs to create silly nicknames for each other.

Can you guess whose nicknames these are?

Mac-attack

unicornpunicorn

superpup5

pencilpumpkin652

superdog2016

snackattack

5dinoattack

brandyattack5

captainsparkles822

doggydoggy5

Danielbaniel201668

superspider

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Internet Safety, Technologies

Parental Information: Safer Internet Day

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Safer Internet Day 2016 – Friday 12th February at the new Bathgate Cinema
West Lothian Council is inviting parents and carers to meet industry experts on internet safety, at the end of a week in which information on keeping children safe online will be promoted through the Council’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, in support of Safer Internet Day 2016.

What is Safer Internet Day?
Globally, Safer Internet Day involves over a hundred countries, and is supported by the European Commission and national Safer Internet Centres across Europe. In West Lothian, an event is being hosted at the new Bathgate Cinema offering advice on setting parental controls on any kind of device, from technology industry experts.

What will be happening on the day?
Police Scotland’s School Link Officers will introduce and provide commentary on the CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) films, giving parents and carers first-hand experience of the internet safety lessons pupils receive in school.

The CEOP film screenings will take place at a free event at the new Bathgate Cinema (formerly St. David’s Church, George Street) on Friday 12 February from 10:00 to 12:00.

Not to be confused with the Regal Community Theatre, the new Bathgate Cinema is in St. David’s Church on the pedestrian precinct in Bathgate, opposite Boots.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Expert advice will then be offered at information stalls from 12 noon until 3pm, with representatives including staff from retailer Game, Vodafone, and Police Scotland.

 

 

What the Leader of the Council said:
Leader of West Lothian Council John McGinty, said: “Safer Internet Day provides the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community.

“The internet is integral to life today, and will play a crucial role in the future of our young people. It is vitally important that children, and the people who care for them, understand that what is posted online today can have a massive impact on their future, both positively and negatively, and the importance of staying safe online.”

For more information visit:

http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/saferinternet

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Primary 2, Technologies

Primary Two have been learning all about internet safety.

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‘I am developing my knowledge and use of safe and acceptable conduct as I use different technologies to interact and share experiences, ideas and information with others.’ TCH1-08a

Learning Intention: We are learning how to stay safe online

Success Criteria: I can create a poster show different ways in which I can stay safe online.

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This week as part ‘Safer Internet Day,’ we have been thinking about different ways in which we can stay safe online. We had lots of wonderful ideas and we made our own e safety posters to show how we can stay safe when we are using the internet.

Mr Nelson.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Events, Health & Wellbeing, House Meetings, Internet Safety, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Pupil Council, Technical Troopers

House Meeting: BYOD and Internet Safety

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Last week we had our first House meeting of 2016 and the House and Vice Captains decided the focus should be on Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and internet safety, as these are currently hot topics of conversations in our school.

As usual we started the meeting going over the plan for the meeting and expectations. Then the house members took part in a community builder. The House and Vice Captains showed us a video about internet safety as it is Internet Safety Day soon.

This led on to telling us about Bring Your Own Device, this is something the Technical Troopers and Pupil Council are leading. We had to create a post-it pledge to show how we would follow our school values of responsible and respectful if we became a BYOD school. The House and Vice Captains have taken these post-its and created a school crest.

Thank you to the House and Vice Captains, and P7s for organising such an interesting house meeting.

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