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Embedding eSafety Into Your School

Session 3A: How to embed e-safety across your

curriculum and disseminate safe online messages throughout your whole

school

Tim Pinto

eSafety Manager

YHGfL

http://www.yhgfl.net

Yorkshire and Humber Grid for Learning – who are we?

Non-profit sharing

Owned by 11 local authorities

We support 2000 schools in region

Accredited ISP, ICT Excellence Awars winner(2010) High-capacity,

educational-only grid

eLearning, eSafety, eSecurity consultancy, CPD & innovation

Aggregated Procurement - £6 million savings


Update Your Staff On A Regular Basis

Technology changes very quickly. Staff and governors

need to know how young people are using it.

Ensure that ALL staff receive training on their

induction programme (teaching/non-teaching)

Appoint an eSafeguarding co-ordinator to lead on

issues around eSafety/eSecurity.


Update Your Staff On A Regular Basis

http://www.northsomersetlscb.org.uk/serious-case-reviews.htm

http://www.childnet.com/kia/traineeteachers


eSecurity

Schools hold important data about young people which

should only be accessed on a secure network.

Headteachers need to work with their ICT network

manager to create a policies and procedures.

Some of the important aspects of this are encrypting

removable data and changing passwords regularly.


eSecurity

http://www.yhgfl.net/eSafeguarding/eSecurity


Ensure You Target Vulnerable Groups

Make sure that you use intervention strategies to

look at eSafety for vulnerable students.

Use the INSAFE site (http://www.saferinternet.org) for EAL

students from East European countries.

Look at specific intervention work with Looked After

Children around Child Sexual Exploitation.

http://www.saferinternet.org/


Ensure You Target Vulnerable Groups

http://www.em-esafetyproject.co.uk/ http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/


Engage With Parents

Most young people access the internet outside

school, increasingly on mobile devices.

Extend the curriculum beyond the classroom to

support parents using the VLE, school website etc.

Use school events e.g. parents assemblies to try

and engage with parents on the issue of eSafety.


Engage With Parents

http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advi

ce-and-resources/parents

http://www.yhgfl.net/eSafeguarding/e

Safety/Engaging-stakeholders


Hold Events Around Specific Themes

Look at particular events in the school calendar Safer

Internet Day (Feb) and Anti-Bullying Week (Nov).

Use themed days in different curriculum areas to

promote eSafety message -

Look at other events in school to promote eSafety

message e.g. summer fair etc.


Hold Events Around Specific Themes

http://www.saferinternetday.org


Create eSafety Peer Educators

You have social media experts in the school. Use

them to train others about online risks.

Look at older students running assemblies for

younger students or lunchtime clubs.

Investigate national schemes such as the

Cybermentors or Diana Award.


Create eSafety Peer Educators

http://www.cybermentors.org.uk/ http://diana-award.org.uk/


Embed eSafety Into The Curriculum

Need to embed the eSafety message regularly

from EYFS to Post 16.

Be creative with your curriculum. eSafety does not

have to be just an area covered in ICT, PHSE.

Look at using poems around cyberbullying in

english or looking at the accuracy of sources on

the internet in history.


Embed eSafety Into The Curriculum

http://www.childnet.com/kia/traineeteachers/matrix.aspx


Ensure You Update Your Policies On A Regular Basis

Policies are key to ensuring that staff and students

are safe when using the school network.

Key policies that schools should have are: Acceptable

User, eSafety, Social Media, Mobile Devices.

When creating policies, involve different stakeholders

including young people, so everyone has ownership.


Ensure You Update Your Policies On A Regular Basis

http://www.yhgfl.net/eSafeguarding/Policies


Engage With Social Media

Using social media is a great way to communicate a

positive message about a school to the community.

If you set up a Facebook page or Twitter account,

make sure you carry out the correct risk assessments.

Some schools are using Ning to create social

networking communities amongst pupils.


Engage With Social Media

http://www.yhgfl.net/eSafeguarding/e

Safety/Social-media/Professionals

http://twitter.com/wickersleynet


Empower Your Students

Tanya Byron scenario of teaching your child to

swim is as relevant as ever.

Can’t ‘lock down’ systems and we need to enable

students to use this technology but know about the risks.

“We are preparing our students for jobs that don't

exist on technologies that haven't be invented.”


Thank You

Contact

[email protected]

Phone: 01724 275 016

Mobile: 07879 335 086

Twitter: @yhgfl_esafeguarding

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