Safer Internet Day was on 5th February 2019 and saw schools all over the UK finding ways to spread awareness about internet safety.
Safer Internet Day was celebrated in over 150 countries across the world and is coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre. This year’s theme was ‘Our internet, our choice: understanding consent in a digital world’ and Digital Leaders were encouraged to share what they did on the online training platforms. We also saw so many schools sharing their activities on Twitter, tagging #ChildnetDL and @ChildnetDL.
Below are a selection of schools who we noticed went above and beyond for Safer Internet Day 2019 so we asked them for some more information on the extremely creative and inspiring ways they celebrated the day!
Newcastle High School for Girls Junior School
Newcastle High School Year 5 Digital Leaders created and performed a short play about a girl who meets up with someone she has been speaking to online which they performed in front of the whole school! The play ended by advising students to speak to a Digital Leader or adult if they felt unsafe. One Digital Leader said,
“Putting on a play is a good way to make smaller children interested and more focused on the things being said.”
Yes, we agree – it is a fantastic way to engage all audiences!
On top of this, the Digital Leaders ran a lesson about internet safety and cyberbullying, including a PowerPoint presentation and a Kahoot quiz with sweets for the winning team!
One ofthe most original ideas that we’ve heard yet is certainly Newcastle High School Year 6 Digital Leaders who wrote and performed a puppet show for Key Stage 1 about keeping safe online! Their group leader said,
“It was lovely to see how well prepared and organised the girls were.”
We agree, fantastic job Digital Leaders!
St Stephen’s Junior School, Kent
St Stephen’s Junior School in Kent had an extremely successful Safer Internet Day and put on an array of activities. The Digital Leaders presented a Safer Internet Day PowerPoint presentation to each year group and also to parents and carers.
They also fed back results from a pupil’s online safety survey to parents and carers via a newsletter they had created. The newsletter highlighted that more children are using apps and games that are not age appropriate, and the Digital Leaders listed age ratings of games and offered advice to parents on how to tackle some difficult issues. Their teacher said,
“They spent the day promoting the themes and even gave up their lunch time to give out information and advice in the dining hall.”
Wow, that shows real dedication!
King’s Ely
King’s Ely Digital Leaders ran their Safer Internet Day activities over a whole week! In fact, Digital Leaders have been busy practicing for their Safer Internet Day assembly since early January!
The Leaders in Year 8 created their own video to help spread digital safety which was previewed in assembly and thoroughly enjoyed by other students. Journalism Club also helped Digital Leaders to create information videos about some current popular apps and social media platforms where they interviewed a teacher in their school. We love to see students collaborating for such a worthy cause- fantastic work, King’s Ely, your Digital Leaders are an inspiration!
Bredon School
Bredon Digital Leaders did some amazing work for Safer Internet Day and Lauren, who is Head Girl as well as a Digital Leader, went above and beyond in her role for the day! Lauren ran a lesson for Key Stage 2 which included games, discussion, images, videos and an interactive quiz. Her teacher said,
“Lauren is a credit to the school as a Digital Leader and I would be very happy for her to teach our children about using Digital Media both safely and effectively in the future.”
Wow, well done Brendon School and Lauren for being such an inspirational Digital Leader!
Acklam Grange School
Acklam Grange School Digital Leaders invited their partner primary schools to visit and take part in a range of activities for Safer Internet Day.
We are very impressed that the Acklam Grange Digital Leaders are sharing their knowledge and experience with their local community and also spreading the word about the Digital Leaders Programme!
Thank you to all the Digital Leaders!
Thank you to all Digital Leaders schools who took part and celebrated Safer Internet Day. Take a look at our blog about how some Digital Leaders were involved in the Safer Internet Day London event here also.
If your Digital Leaders have gone over and above in their mission to spread internet safety knowledge we would love to hear about it! Please contact: [email protected] if you would like to feature in a Childnet Digital Leaders blog or if your students are interested in writing a guest blog. You can also share what your Digital LEaders have been up to with us on our new twitter @ChildnetDL #ChildnetDL
Childnet Digital Leaders made a huge splash at this year’s Safer Internet Day event at the BT Centre in central London. Safer Internet Day is organised each year in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre. Digital Leaders from Hoxton Garden Primary, Kaizen Primary School, Mayfield School, Orchard Primary School, Sarah Bonnell School, Southwold Primary School and Titus Salt School all attended the event along with Dr Challoner’s High School and Dundonald Primary School. They facilitated the day, delivered the key note speech, spoke on the youth panel and ran workshops to educate attendees on how to be safe online, while focusing on this year’s theme of ‘Our internet, our choice: understanding consent in a digital world’.
Israa from Sarah Bonnell School was an incredible youth host during the entire afternoon, introducing speakers to the stage including Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Margot James, Department for Education Minister for Children and Families, Nadhim Zahawi, and BT’s CEO of Consumer Brands, Marc Allera. She demonstrated her good humour and bubbly personality all to a highly professional standard – awesome job, Israa!
Will from Titus Salt School was our youth keynote speaker. He had the whole auditorium’s attention and during his speech he was confident, articulate and inspirational! Not only this, but he was also interviewed by BBC Own It and BBC News and must have come away feeling like a true celebrity – you were absolutely fantastic; well done, Will!
Mayfield School look at permission online
Mayfield School’s workshop looked at the different ways people give permission for their data to be used online. They asked visitors to vote, on a sliding scale, on what sorts of data they were happy to share and how happy they were to share that data on various different platforms. They had a ‘True or False’ data quiz which, whilst being incredibly fun, also surprised many visitors with its answers! An example of a statement was from WhatsApp’s privacy policy and said ‘Once a message has been delivered, it no longer resides on our servers’. Many visitors were amazed that this was true! Margot James also visited their workshop and engaged in some interesting discussions with them.
Kaizen Primary School explore how we give consent online
Kaizen Primary School’s workshop asked guests to respond to a series of statements about online consent, and then to explore different ways that we can ask for, give and receive consent. They also asked guests to record on a Padlet why consent is important to them and where they would expect to give consent. You can see the range of responses at the following link: https://padlet.com/admin413/SID2019
Sarah Bonnell School discuss different types of consent
Sarah Bonnell School ran a workshop to discuss the different types of consent we might encounter online, and then used an online interactive platform to submit how you could best respond to different scenarios.
Viridis Schools Federation get the guests thinking about gaming
The Viridis Schools Federation is made up of Hoxton Garden Primary, Orchard Primary School and Southwold Primary School.
These three schools used a gaming scenario to ask guests to decide how issues of consent online can make them feel and the emotions it can cause. They were then asked to consider what they could do to make sure consent is asked for. They also ran a great quiz on online issues!
We also saw a youth panel consisting of six young people, four of whom were Digital Leaders. These were Harriet from Kaizen Primary, Homyra from Mayfield School, Zahra from Sarah Bonnell and Morgan from Southwold Primary. They all did a brilliant job talking about consent and answering questions from Kate Russell, a BBC journalist – a great effort and confidence shown by all!
Digital Leaders interview the UK’s Chief Medical Officer
Israa and Maariyah, Digital Leaders from Sarah Bonnell School, were invited by BBC News to interview Professor Dame Sally Davies, the UK Chief Medical Officer, about the official guidance released about children’s screen time. They did a great job – well done to both of you!
With Safer Internet Day coming up on 5th February, the Digital Leader’s preparations are in full swing!
It’s that time of year again and Childnet Digital Leaders from all over the UK are currently preparing activities to run in their schools to raise awareness of Safer Internet Day and educate their peers about how to build a better internet. The theme this year is ‘Safer Internet Day: Together for a better internet’. Children and young people, schools, parents and carers, and organisations all across the UK are invited to make a pledge to do something great and positive online this Safer Internet Day using the hashtag #OurInternetOurChoice.
Delivered by Childnet, as part of its work as one of three charities in the UK Safer Internet Centre, the Childnet Digital Leaders Programme trains young people to be online safety peer educators. Below you will see a few examples of what our wonderful Digital Leader teams are doing in order to raise awareness this year.
Cathays High
The Digital Leaders at Cathays High in Cardiff have been working hard last term completing their online training modules. They have trained in topics such as ‘Fake News’ and ‘Creating a Kinder Internet’, and have all earned their Digital Leader badge and certificate. A great achievement! The team have been very busy in the lead up to Safer Internet Day and the Digital Leaders have planned a whole school assembly to run throughout the week. They have also designed flyers to hand out to their peers, educating them on how to stay safe not only on Safer Internet Day, but every time they go online.
St John Bosco RC Primary
The Childnet team had the pleasure of visiting the Digital Leaders at St John Bosco RC Primary in Manchester on the 19th October last year. Prior to the visit, the Digital Leaders had prepared their own internet safety posters based around the SMART rules. We were super impressed by all their hard work and it is no wonder that the team are now incredibly busy getting themselves ready for Safer Internet Day. The Digital Leaders are conducting a questionnaire for pupils to complete and each class is going to make a permission pledge. Not only this, but the Digital Leaders are even going to be presenting to the parents about internet safety! We are sure this will be highly valuable for all involved. Well done yet again to the dedicated team at St John Bosco RC Primary!
Selston High School
One of our brilliant Digital Champions, Jess, attends Selston High and is helping lead activities this Safer Internet Day. They are planning to have some great and engaging assemblies for each year group in the school, and their Digital Leaders are helping staff to deliver a lesson on consent to students in Years 8&9. They are also pledging, as a whole school, to take positive action to make the internet a kinder place – fantastic stuff!
King’s Ely Junior School
King’s Ely Junior School are running a whole school assembly which will encourage safer digital use. Their Year 5-7 Digital Leaders are also running individual class assemblies on safer use of the internet and have been busy creating a video for a special assembly!
Reigate St Mary’s Preparatory and Choir School
The Digital Leaders at Reigate St Mary’s Preparatory and Choir School have been busy putting up posters in order to raise awareness of and promote Safer Internet Day. Great work Digital Leaders!
Harnessing the power of youth
Young people across the UK are delivering activities in support of Safer Internet Day and we’ve been very inspired to hear about all the creative ways our Digital Leaders are raising awareness of Safer Internet Day 2019.
If your school is a part of the Childnet Digital Leaders Programme and you are planning activities for Safer Internet Day be sure to tell us what they are doing using the ‘Run Activities for Safer Internet Day 2019’ module. We’ll put the most creative ones in our newsletter!
If you’re interested in enrolling your school on to the Childnet Digital Leaders Programme you can find more information here on the Childnet Digital Leaders Programme website.
Each year since 2008, BIK Youth Panel has been organised prior to and during the annual BIK conference SIF in Brussels, encouraging a group of youth panellists to voice not just their personal opinions and challenges, but also those of their peers who they are representing at a European level.
I was honoured to be nominated by Childnet and represent the UK at the SIF as the representative for the BIK youth team. There were 18 other youth members (aged 14-19) who came from 14 different European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway and Portugal. Yes, that is quite a lot of countries!
Prior to our participation on the panel, we all ‘virtually’ met through four webinars where we attempted to discuss and decide our overall theme for the campaign: Critical thinking. This concept would be addressed through a ‘deep-dive’ session that we, the youth, co-ordinated and created.
As I had only met the other panellists online, I was unsure about how we would interact in person. How would everyone work together? How would be bring our ideas together? Will everyone get along? Fortunately, I had nothing to worry about! The other youth panellists was incredibly friendly, energetic and inspirational and I had an amazing time working with them.
On Sunday 18th November 2018, Miss Shah and I took the Eurostar to Brussels where the 3 day conference was going to be held.
We had an early start the next day and after breakfast, headed to the Google HQ to spend the day working on our concept. We proposed several key messages for our campaign, eventually agreeing upon “It is normal not wanting to share everything; therefore, you shouldn’t compare yourself to others.“
We then talked about how we would structure our youth sessions at the SIF Conference. This included deciding the structure of our deep-dive session and the choosing the hashtag for our campaign: #MyDigitalSelfandI.
We formed two groups: one working on the content of the deep-dive session and the other working on creating a video to spread our message. The deep dive group was further split into several subgroups, with panellists working on a particular theme that we would be discussing with those attending the conference. These included, ‘How digital devices impact young people’s lives’, ‘Safety’, ‘Copyright’, ‘Fake news’, ‘GDPR and children’s rights’ and ‘Creators’.
I was part of the team that was involved in creating and producing the video that would showcase our campaign as well as launch our hashtag. It was a challenging but fun task and we did have a few hiccups along the way. Creative blocks, tiresome video editing and having to re-shoot lost sections of footage made for a very busy but productive day. Eventually, quite late at night, we finished working on the video and it was ready to be posted on You Tube and launched at the conference.
Following on from the Keynote speeches at the SIF, the BIK Youth panellists were ready to run our deep-dive sessions. We also presented the video we had created. Our sessions were very well attended and we were given very positive feedback. Mariya Gabriel, the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society and the main keynote speaker, commended us for our hard work and commitment and told us “Do not be afraid to speak up, talk about what you want, what you need, what you are afraid of.”
I had an amazing time in Brussels where I got to work with some incredible young people who came from different countries. Despite our multicultural backgrounds, we had so much in common with each other and I really enjoyed learning about their lives. I still keep in touch with them and I feel that we will be lifelong friends.
This was a fantastic opportunity for me and helped with building my confidence and public speaking skills and gave me the opportunity to speak about online safety policy to an EU wide audience as well as act as a representative for the whole of the UK.
Thank you to Miss Shah, Childnet, BIK Youth and the wonderful people I met for this incredible experience. This event was truly one that I shall always remember.
Thank you to Hadia for sharing your experience and for being such an inspirational Digital Leader! If your Digital Leaders would like to write a guest blog, please email [email protected]
We are starting a new monthly blog feature to share schools who have completed their training, updates from the Childnet team and good news stories from Digital Leaders schools.
Digital Leaders Regional Event
Our first Regional Event was held at Titus Salt School in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, on 20th November. The event was a huge success and saw schools from in and around the north of the UK attend participate in training as well as to meet other Digital Leaders from other schools. You can read the full blog post here.
Anti-Bullying Week blog
Thank you and well done to all the Digital Leaders teams who shared their activities during for Anti-Bullying Week 2018 which ran from 19th to 23rd November. It was amazing to see all the fantastic ways that you spread awareness and kindness in your school and community. We have put together a blog to share the content Group Leaders emailed to us which you can check out here.
Student guest blog on Anti-Bullying Week
Acklam Grange students put on some fantastic events as part of Anti-Bullying Week 2018. Mo, a Digital Leader, wrote a guest blog for us about the week and you can read it here.
Facebook Community Boost event
Digital Leaders from Woodford County High School for Girls took part in a Facebook event which was attended by MPs as well as industry experts. Eman, Farisha and Leya demonstrated their expertise in online safety by speaking to MPs with confidence and ease. Students also wrote a guest blog about their experience and you can read about it here.
Well done to the Digital Leader teams from the following schools who have recently completed their online training!
Abbey Primary School, Northampton
Barrow Hedges Primary School- 2nd cohort!
Bishop Wordsworth’s School
Bonner Primary School
Bromley High School- Juniors
Clayesmore Preparatory School
Cokethorpe School
De Bohun Primary School
Edgbaston High School for Girls
Frogmore Junior School- 2nd cohort!
Gearies Primary School- 3rd cohort!
International School of the Hague Primary
Kensington Prep School
Linton Primary School
Manor Junior School
New Delaval Primary School
North London Collegiate Junior School
Norwich High Prep School- Juniors
Oakley Vale Primary School
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary
Reed’s School
Saltford C of E Primary School
Sawtry Village Academy
Spring Gardens Primary School
St Augustine’s CE Primary School, Manchester
St Richards Catholic College
Stanford Le Hope Primary School
The Flying Bull Academy- 2nd cohort!
The Royal Masonic School for Girls
William Howard
Willington School
If your school would like to share what your Digital Leaders team have been up to then please email [email protected] to be included in the next update!
Activities to try with your Digital Leaders this month
Write a blog – Help us populate our brand new website with all your awesome activities! Let us know what your Digital Leaders have been up to and we’ll feature it on our Blogs. You’ll receive a ‘Write a Blog’ badge if you’re on the primary platform and a ‘Childnet advocate’ award on the secondary platform. Take a look at St John’s Bosco RC Primary School’s excellent blog for inspiration.
On the 14th November Digital Leaders from Woodford County High School attended the Facebook Community Boost event and spoke to MPs. Students, Leya, Farisha and Eman have written a blog about their experience.
Hi everyone! We are from Woodford County High School located in South Woodford (London if you didn’t know) and recently, we went to the Facebook Community Boost event held by Facebook at Millbank Tower in Pimlico.
The train ride was extremely long, people from all over London were coming and going – and as you can imagine, the train was extremely crowded! We entered the building earlier than we expected and were warmly welcomed by the staff. We met Caroline Hurst, the previous Director of Education at Childnet and we were given special lanyards stating our business there.
We were led to the VIP elevator and into the event hall with a picturesque view of the River Thames. We were gifted an Instagram pop socket, notebook and a pen. Then they offered us food and we were given a tour around the building. We met people who are running various projects with the aim to help local communities. There were many props to play around with and there was an Instagram swing that we got to take a picture on. After this, the aim of the main event started.
Various MPs came through the door and visited our stand. We talked about how amazing being a Digital Leader is and what we have established so far. We talked with various MPs, like Jack Brereton, who also gave us advice on what we could do to help our own communities more.
Luckily, we had the chance to speak with the CEO of Childnet, Will Gardner. He complimented us on our work so far and how well we were articulating ourselves when speaking with the guests. He even gave us advice on what we could do in the future to include our peers more through events like assemblies.
This event was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Although we felt nervous at the beginning, we conquered our fears and were able to speak confidently with the guests. It also helped that they were extremely friendly and relaxed talking with us about the topic of technology and how it affects society.
We got to learn more about how we can have bigger impact on our society and we are feeling more confident in ourselves. We would also like to think we influenced at least one of the MPs as he called us inspiring!
We would like to thank the CEO of Childnet and his team, including Danielle Antha and Caroline Hurst. We would like to thank Facebook for the event and our teacher for choosing us to participate!
AND THANK YOU CHILDNET FOR BEING AWESOME!
We would like to thank the Woodford County High Digital Leaders for being such fantastic representatives of the Digital Leaders Programme, and a special thank you to Leya, Farisha and Eman for writing this blog. If your Digital Leaders would like to write a guest blog, please contact [email protected]
Anti-bullying week 2018 ran from 19th to 23rd of November 2018 and Digital Leaders from around the UK ran a variety of fantastic events. For sharing their Anti-Bullying Week activities on the platform, Digital Leaders received a badge and 100 points!
Clayesmore Preparatory School
Digital Leaders at Clayesmore Preparatory School wore colourful hats instead of odd socks to celebrate diversity and to make sure they were seen in their school assembly where they did an anti-bullying presentation. They talked about how to show respect to others and played the ‘UNIQUE’ song by Andy and the Odd Socks!
Bromley High School Juniors
The Bromley High School Juniors Digital Leaders made their own presentations on cyberbullying and shared these during registrations periods with form groups around the school. They really thought about their audience by tailoring their sessions appropriately for the age group they were working with. The Digital Leaders shared their ‘How to be a good friend online’ posters in assembly and they also wrote a blog on their school site to share their Anti-Bullying Week activities with parents and carers.
Hazelmere Junior School
Hazelmere Junior School Digital Leaders started a ‘100 acts of kindness’ challenge, whereby children could tick off a name on their classroom wall chart if that person had been kind to them. Certificates were then given in assembly to those who had shown kindness throughout the week. The week showed students and teachers how important it is to be kind to others, not only for Anti-Bullying Week, but all year round!
St Mary’s Church of England School in Woodbridge
St Mary’s Church of England School in Woodbridge did a presentation on cyberbullying in their school assembly wearing their odd socks. They talked about what cyberbullying is and how to report it. They also took part in a role play exercise to show what you should do if you are cyberbullied.
Manor Junior School
Manor Junior School took part in Odd Sock Day and ran workshops and assemblies throughout the week on cyberbullying and anti-bullying. In the workshops they acted out how bullying can affect people’s lives and how to deal with these issues. The school also carried out a survey with the children on anti-bullying and found ‘The biggest concern shared by pupils is the name calling in the playground.’ To help to with this concern, Manor Junior School are introducing playground pals to develop positive play, as well as training staff on how to promote positive play.
Acklam Grange School
Acklam Grange Digital Leaders got very creative and put on an open-mic day! Mo, a Digital Leader from Acklam Grange, has written a blog about their exciting day and you can read it in full here.
Christ Church CE (VC) Primary School
At Christ Church CE (VC) Primary School, the whole school took part in odd socks day! The Digital Leaders also created posters based on Stop, Speak, Report resources from the Anti-Bullying Alliance website.
We are so impressed with the amazing and innovative ways Digital Leaders took part in and spread awareness of Anti-Bullying Week 2018! Well done to all the Digital Leaders who took part this year and thank you for sharing your amazing work with us at Childnet.
We love to hear what Digital Leaders have been doing and if you would like to share what your school have been doing as part of the Digital Leaders Programme please email [email protected]
Mo, a Digital Leader from Acklam Grange School, wrote us a blog about what his school did for Anti-Bullying Week 2018.
For Anti-Bullying Week 2018, our team organised an open mic-day. On the open mic-day we sold cakes, popcorn, drinks and we took donations for stickers. We also had a photo-booth!
We sang the ‘Choose Respect’ song and created a video. This was shown to staff on the Monday in their morning briefing to promote Anti-Bullying Week.
During the open mic-day we had student performances including singing, dancing and drumming. We had students from all year groups performing and we even had a teacher perform who made the audience go ‘WOW!’
The audience were superb and made it easy for the performers as they encouraged them and made them feel even more confident. The audience and wonderful teaching staff contributed well and our Head Teacher was there to help calm the audience down if they were getting too wild (in a good way)! It was great for students and they are still talking about the performers and how fantastic Anti-Bullying Week was!
On top of this the school teaching staff designed a lesson about respecting yourself, others and the community, and students made a poster about respect. They also spoke about how to apply respect on a daily basis.
Our aims for Anti-Bullying Week were to make the week enjoyable and to show that people should treat others the way they want to be treated.
Thank you Acklam Grange students and Mo for putting on such a fantastic event and sharing it with the Digital Leaders community. If your Digital Leaders would like to write a guest blog, please contact [email protected]
Last week the Childnet Digital Leaders from Acklam Grange School, Berwick Hills Primary School, Bolton Muslim Girls’ School, Christ Church CV (VC) Primary School, Hasland Junior School and Titus Salt School came together for our first ever Digital Leaders Regional Event! At this event they shared their knowledge, best practice and ideas for how they can implement online safety education in their schools.
What is the Childnet Digital Leaders programme?
The Childnet Digital Leaders Programme is a youth leadership training programme empowering young people to educate their peers about online safety.
We are the only online safety charity in the UK delivering an online peer to peer programme that directly helps schools to embed online safety. Once on board, groups of Digital Leaders complete training through an engaging, informative and fun online platform, working through e-learning modules to equip them with the skills to become peer mentors in their schools, and help keep others safe online. When they are qualified, Digital Leaders are encouraged to advocate for online safety in their schools and communities by running offline and online activities, for which they will be awarded additional team achievement badges and points.
What happened at the event?
At the regional event 60 qualified Digital Leaders from 6 schools came together to discuss their work on the programme, and to meet others who are doing the same things as them as part of the programme.
The young people took part in activities throughout the day, including quizzes, moral compass activities and workshops on talking to different audiences about key topics such as cyberbullying.
There was then the first ever ‘star awards’ ceremony where young people, who had been nominated by their teachers, were given awards for the great things they had achieved as Digital Leaders.
The event was MC’d by Conor, a Digital Leader from Acklam Grange School, who did a great job of introducing the event and making sure the young people were excited for what was about to come.
Sharing ideas
The event was a great chance for the Digital Leaders to share their thoughts and ideas about the programme, whilst also discussing the challenges and great successes they’ve faced as Digital Leaders.
The young people from Titus Salt and Berwick Hills Primary School created stall displays that showcased what they had been up to over the last year, including great examples of presentations, resources and events that they had run.
Future events
We will be hosting more Digital Leaders events throughout the year, so team leaders should keep an eye on their inboxes over the coming months for more details!
We are starting a new monthly blog feature to share schools who have completed their training, updates from the Childnet team and good news stories from Digital Leaders schools.
Digital Champions application deadline extended – new deadline 30th November!
The Childnet team have so far received some fantastic applications from aspiring Digital Champions. This is our exciting new opportunity for Digital Leaders looking to expand their role, gain new skills and network with other Digital Leaders across the UK. You can read more about the role and the application process on our recent Digital Champions blog post.
European partners visit St John Bosco RC School’s Digital Leaders
You may have also seen our recent visit to St John Bosco School in Manchester; the students showed us and our European partners some amazing letters they had written to parents about online safety. You can read the full blog post here.
Sawtry Village Academy featured in local newspaper
Congratulations to Sawtry Village Academy in Peterborough who featured in the Peterborough Telegraph, outlining their upcoming involvement in the Childnet Digital Leaders Programme. You can read the full article here.
If you would like to try and feature your Digital Leaders team in your local press, contact us at [email protected] for a press pack.
Digital Leaders Regional Event
On Tuesday 20th November Titus Salt School in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, will be hosting the first ever Digital Leaders Regional Event! The Childnet team have been busy preparing for the event and are really excited to see all the Digital Leaders who will be attending! Titus Salt and their new Digital Leaders have also been hard at work completing their training. Find out more about the Regional Event here.
Well done to the Digital Leader teams from the following schools who have recently completed their online training!
Bangkok Patana School
Bolton Muslim Girls School
Bradfield College- 2nd cohort
Cathays High
Christ Church CE (VC) Primary
Priory Academy LSST
Priory Ruskin Academy
St George’s International School, Luxembourg
St John Bosco- 2nd cohort
St John’s C of E Primary School
St John’s College Juniors
The Royal Masonic School for Girls
Valence Primary School
Vinehall School
If your school would like to share what your Digital Leaders team have been up to then please email [email protected] to be included in the next update!
Activities to try with your Digital Leaders this month
Anti-Bullying Week mini-module – Anti-Bullying Week runs from 12th-16th Why don’t you tell us what you’ve been doing in your school to speak out against bullying? You’ll get a badge, 100 points and the best entries will go on our website! Let us how you’ve been campaigning by emailing us at [email protected]
Write a blog – Help us populate our brand new website with all your awesome activities! Let us know what your Digital Leaders have been up to and we’ll feature it on our Blogs. You’ll receive a ‘Write a Blog’ badge if you’re on the primary platform and a ‘Childnet advocate’ award on the secondary platform. Take a look at St John’s Bosco RC Primary School’s excellent blog for inspiration.
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