Leadership and Management
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Health and Safety
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Auditing for
E-safety including surveys |
Policies and Practice |
Roles and
Responsibilities |
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Infrastructure and
Technology |
Education and Training |
Useful Websites |
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Search Sites for Children |
Safe Use of Equipment |
Safe Disposal of Equipment |
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Additional Links |
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Auditing Your Current E-safety Position |
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We recommend that you use the e-safety sections from the Becta
self-review framework in order to support you with
identifying e-safety priorities for your school. The
document below includes all the relevant parts of the
framework for this purpose. |
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Becta Self-review Framework - E-safety Sections |
We also recommend that you complete an e-safety survey with a
sample group of pupils or year group in order to identify
the key issues or difficulties that your school needs to
address. For this purpose we are in the process of working
with schools to develop e-safety surveys to use with phases
of pupils. The drafts below are already available for
you to adapt through consultation with your school council
and use.
The speech presented by the ministerial speech by Jim Knight
at the BETT show 2008 indicated a need to join up the home
and school experience of pupils and the last Ofsted survey
2005/7 suggested that more knowledge is needed of what
pupils do online and in relation to e-safety. In
response to this, surveys of internet use of key stage 1 and
2 have been developed through working with Crossways Infants
School and Wheatfield Primary School respectively. We
recommend that you adapt and use the surveys to find out
about how pupils in your school are using the internet.
This can then inform curriculum developments within school
and parents meetings. |
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Computer Use Survey Key Stage 1
Computer Use Survey Key Stage 2 |
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A secondary survey is currently being developed. We
recommend that you send a letter home informing parents of
the actions you are taking and there is a draft below for
you to adapt. |
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Draft Text for
Letter to Parents |
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We recommend that you keep a record of any e-safety issues
that arise along with the measure taken to resolve it.
This can be used to monitor the frequency and range of
issues and strategies being used to deal with them in order
to plan for future education and training. The
e-safety incident record below can be adapted and used for
this purpose. |
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e-Safety Incident Record |
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Policies and Practice |
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We recommend that every school has an e-safety policy.
Becta has produced a variety of guidance to inform policy
development and the main documents can be accessed below. |
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E-safety Developing Whole School Policies to support
effective practice
Signposts to Safety Teaching Internet Safety at Key Stages 1
and 2
Signposts to Safety Teaching Internet Safety at Key Stages 3
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The attached document contains links to many resources to
support e-safety. Some of these provide sample
policies.
South Gloucestershire local authority e-safety group have
developed policy guidance to support schools with developing
their policies and understanding the issues. |
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E-safety policy
guidance |
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Kent Council provide guidance on all issues to do with
e-safety which includes a sample policy. |
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http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/ict/safety.htm |
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E-safety Roles and Responsibilities |
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Linked to the policy guide we have identified a list of roles
and responsibilities for pupils and parents in relation to
the areas of contact, commerce and content. These can
be adapted and used by school councils and youth groups to
create your own versions. We have also identified the
roles and responsibilities that will need to be covered by a
variety of partners in supporting e-safety and this also
makes reference to the role of the safeguarding board,
parent and the local authority. We recommend that you
amend and personalise this document to indicate how key
roles all allocated within your organisation to ensure all
internet users are kept as safe as possible and that this
information is widely disseminated so that people are aware
of their responsibilities. |
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Young People Roles and Responsibilities
E-safety Partners Roles and Responsibilities
E-safety Parent Roles and Responsibilities |
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Infrastructure and Technology |
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SafetyNet Plus filtering system by RM is provided for all
schools by the South West Grid for Learning. The South West
Grid have produced a filtering guide and their own
acceptable use policy which can be accessed below. |
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SWGfl Filtering Help Sheet
SWGfl AUP |
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Through information provided by the technical IT team schools
can monitor their broadband use and also monitor the top 100
websites visited as well as the top 100 attempted visits to
banned sites. Samples are available below. We
recommend that schools review this information periodically
to identify any emerging issues. |
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Usage Chart Secondary Example
SWGfL Monitoring Secondary Example |
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Education and Training |
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Centrally funded e-safety workshops have been run during May
08 for all schools and the resources have now been published
below on the South Gloucestershire website for colleagues to
access, adapt and use. The PowerPoint below was used
for the e-safety workshops and many of the resources shown
on this webpage were incorporated within this. We
recommended that you adapt this presentation and use it with
staff to highlight the issues. |
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E-safety awareness workshop PowerPoint |
We have also produced a PowerPoint template that can be
adapted and used
with parents to raise awareness about the issues. We
recommend that schools complete a survey with a sample of
pupils prior to this to identify any school specific issues
that can be addressed with parents.
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E-safety Workshop for Parents |
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We have also presented a workshop at the governors
conference and the presentation is available below. |
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E-safety Governors Presentation |
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Additional video resources were used during the presentation
and can be downloaded at web addresses which are given in
the sheet below. There is also a version for parents
which contains websites that might be most useful to them. |
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E-safety Resources
E-safety Resources for Parents |
The documents above also reference teaching resources that can
be used in support of e-safety. We recommend that
e-safety is taught through a variety of subjects in
particular ICT, personal and social education, English (in
relation to publishing content) and any subject which makes
use of the internet for research purposes. These
subjects provide opportunity to reinforce e-safety messages.
In order to support primary schools with implementing a
systematic approach to teaching about e-safety we have
developed teaching schemes on acceptable use of ICT and also
linking research to acceptable use. These are
available below. We recommend that schools consider
where they teach about e-safety and map this in to the
curriculum. |
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Acceptable Use Progression
Research and Acceptable Use Progression |
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The South West Grid for Learning produced post cards on
e-safety for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils. |
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KS1 and KS2 post cards - Click Safe and Click Aware |
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The revised secondary curriculum now makes specific reference
to teaching about e-safety and can be accessed through the
link below. |
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Revised Secondary Curriculum KS3 |
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The South West Grid for Learning now run annual e-safety
Conferences. The resources from the last conference in
November 2007 can be accessed via the link below. |
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South West Grid E-safety Conference |
The SW Regional ICT Conferences also include an e-safety
element.
The South West Grid also have an e-safety section of their
web site to provide updates. |
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Useful Websites |
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Our e-safety resources list provides a summary of websites,
intended audience and pupil year group as well as links to
video resources, policy resources and search sites for
children. It can be accessed below. |
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E-safety Resources |
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Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre |
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Childnet International |
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Digizen |
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South
West Grid Safe |
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ThinkUKnow |
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Search Sites for Children |
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Search Engine Watch provides an overview of many search sites. |
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Ask Kids |
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Kids Click |
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Media
Gallery |
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Net Smart Kids |
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Yahoo Kids |
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We would not recommend using adult search engines such as
Google during class teaching with younger learners. Please be aware that Google
Image search may find inappropriate images as filtering
systems based on text can not filter these out. Teachers may
want to download images prior to class to create resources.
Media Gallery provides safe access to images, videos and
audio sites. Some schools in South Gloucestershire
also subscribe to Scran which is a safe source of images.
The above sites are designed for use by young people. |
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Additional Links
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http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/
usingcomputersandtheinternet/
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Parents Centre – parents guide to internet and computer use |
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http://www.getsafeonline.org/ |
Get Safe Online – advice on protecting yourself against
internet threats |
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Safe Use of Equipment
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Schools are recommended to ensure that they are using ICT
equipment safely and that all staff are aware of the issues.
The following guidance has been put together from a number
of sources and included in a suggested safety poster for
schools to put near interactive whiteboards and data
projectors in order to encourage their safe use. These
elements should be included in the school ICT policy and it
is particularly important that the information is
disseminated to all staff including support staff and supply
teachers.
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Data Projectors and Interactive Whiteboards
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- Avoid looking into the projector beam. Stand to one side
of the light when in front of the projector. Do not look
towards the class for more than a few seconds when in the
beam.
- Ensure the projector is properly focused.
- Ensure children are supervised in rooms whenever
projectors are on.
- Ensure the font size is large enough to read or zoom in
to make it larger (125).
- Use colours and backgrounds that are easy to read and
reduce glare by not using pure white backgrounds.
- Ensure that the display is large when presenting web
pages on the whiteboard. To do this in Internet Explorer
click on view, text size, largest.
- Ensure you have checked web sites before you show them
on the whiteboard.
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Classroom ICT Rules Safety Poster |
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Becta have produced
clear guidelines on health and safety relating to
ICT which can be assessed below.
http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=lv&catcode=ss_lv_saf_hs_03&rid=2348
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Safe Disposal of Equipment
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Details about safe disposal of equipment can be accessed in
the local authority policy:
http://intranet/content/CYP/Department/edcentral/ipd/schoolsict
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