E - Safety

Pupil Awareness
Providing appropriately targeted information to
enable children and young people themselves
to develop their own online safety awareness
and skills.
Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron
Review
2008
Educating about e-safety
 National curriculum: Key concepts
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 1.4 b) Recognising issues of risk, safety and

responsibility surrounding the use of ICT.
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Teaching E-Safety in the ICT
classroom
General online safety
Social networking/chatrooms
Cyber bullying
Viruses
Spam
Phishing and ID theft
Pop ups and spyware
E-safety as a whole school issue
Schools where provision for e-safety was
outstanding, all the staff, including members
of the wider workforce, shared responsibility
for it. Assemblies, tutorial time, personal,
social, health and education lessons, and an
age-appropriate curriculum for e-safety all
helped pupils to become safe and responsible
users of new technologies.
 The safe use of new technologies, Ofsted 2010
Teaching E-Safety across the
curriculum
Needs to be addressed within other subjects
such as PHSE and Citizenship
Use of Assemblies
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Whole school issue
Ongoing staff training
School policies
Extending e-safety responsibility from the ICT
team to all staff including support staff
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Managed systems instead of
Locked systems
Pupils in the schools that had ‘managed’
systems had better knowledge and
understanding of how to stay safe than those
in schools with ‘locked down’ systems. Pupils
were more vulnerable overall when schools
used locked down systems because they
were not given enough opportunities to learn
how to assess and manage risk for
themselves.
 The safe use of new technologies, Ofsted 2010
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Managed system
Pupils learn how to manage risk which will then
extend to when they use the internet at
home.
Pupils learn the best approaches as to how to
deal with uncomfortable issues.
Think before you click
policy
Pupils are encouraged to question each
website:

Is it suitable
Is it reliable
What information they should/shouldn’t
provide
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Parental awareness
When it comes to understanding the digital
worlds that their children inhabit many adults
feel out of their depth and so either don’t
engage or become so anxious that they
overcontrol their child’s behaviour.
Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron
Review
2008
Extended schools
Give parents the opportunity to understand e-
safety
Use current media to highlight certain issues
Family learning sessions
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