The key theme of Safer Internet Day 2012 is “Discovering the digital world together safely” and has a focus on people from different ages supporting and helping others in the online world. An important example of this is for young people to raise awareness about different digital devices with parents, carers and grandparents so that they know how to support their children and grandchildren whilst they are online.

YHGfL are offering an array of resources to support schools with running a Safer Internet Day event for other stakeholders. Central to this is a video resource which explains the specific resources which a school will need to run a series of workshops. This is supported by a number of documents which include PowerPoint presentations, posters and guidance documents for teachers in order that the event can be run easily.

The YHGfL video resource was developed with Camblesforth Community Primary School in North Yorkshire. Year 6 pupils at the school organised a ‘mock’ Safer Internet Day event in November and the results of this day have formed the basis of the resources, after advice from the students and the headteacher. The event in school centred around students delivering a series of presentations to parents, grandparents and others from the local community around the digital technology that they use and advice on how to keep safe on the internet. The adults then visited a number of workstations around the hall were students helped them understand further specific areas, such as using Skype, online shopping and playing on game consoles.

The YHGfL Safer Internet Day package includes:

· Video resources to support schools running a SID event.

· PowerPoint presentations for students to deliver to stakeholders.

· Guidance notes for teachers running a SID event.

· Letter and poster templates for schools.

YHGfL have also teamed up with ROAR Educate to offer schools unable to run a SID event, the opportunity to buy an eSafety software product called ‘Grapple’ which can be used by parents and children to help bridge the knowledge gap between different generations. ‘Grapple’ will be offered to YHGfL schools for a discounted rate and ROAR Educate will allow schools to sell the software to parents/carers enabling them to raise funds for the school. More details of this unique opportunity for YHGfL schools will be available in early January.

Finally, YHGfL are looking for schools to register their SID event and they have an opportunity of winning a software bundle donated by ROAR Educate. Schools will need to provide a short case study of their

Some key findings.

• The overall effectiveness of ICT was good or outstanding in over two thirds of the primary schools visited. In contrast, just over a third of the secondary schools visited were considered good or outstanding for the overall effectiveness of ICT. Many of the weaknesses seen in the secondary school sample, including weak use of assessment and the degree of challenge posed by the Key Stage 4 vocational curriculum, echo findings similar to those of Ofsted’s previous ICT report.
•  Pupils’ achievement in ICT was good or outstanding in over half of the primary schools visited over the three years of the survey. Achievement was good or outstanding in 29 of the 74 secondary schools visited, and was inadequate in almost a fifth. Achievement in the secondary schools was adversely affected by the lack of effective challenge for higher-attaining students and poor coverage of key aspects of the ICT curriculum, especially at Key Stage 4.
• The ICT curriculum and qualification routes provided by nearly half of the secondary schools surveyed were not meeting the needs of all students, especially at Key Stage 4. In these schools a single vocational examination course was taken by all students, limiting challenge to the more able, or ICT was offered as an option to some students with others not receiving the full National Curriculum. As a result, in 30 of the 74 schools visited nearly half of the students reach the age of 16 without a sound foundation for further study or training in ICT and related subjects.
•  In the majority of primary schools there were regular audits of staff’s professional development needs. The approach was less systematic in secondary schools, where inspectors saw very few examples of any evaluation of the impact of training on the effectiveness of teaching or on pupils’ learning.
• Most of the schools either had a virtual learning environment in full use or were in the process of installing one. Where schools were making regular use of a virtual learning environment, they had been able to enhance and enrich many aspects of school life, including the quality of learning resources, communications with parents, and assessment and tracking processes.

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Regional round up – Safer Internet Day 2012, eSafety in the Foundation Stage, Hull eSafety Toolkit

Resources for parents – Engaging parents with eSafety, Digital parenting from Vodafone, PEGI Games ratings

Resources – eSafety videos, Social Networking: Assessing the risks, Data security – asking the right questions, Click Clever, Click Safe

In the news – NEN Safety survey, Latest OFSTED report urges safeguarding improvements, EU Kids Inline survey

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• All KPIs were met or exceeded this month
• A major focus for the month was development and user testing of our new
  online booking system and CPD brokerage. It is due to be launched in early
  September.
• A programme of free online CPD workshops has been devised in partnership
  with NAACE (ICT for Free) and the National Education Network. The
  sessions will be delivered by YHGfL and promoted across the other RBCs.
• The eSafety section of the website has undergone a major redevelopment,
  with many new sections and resources. It will now be easier to navigate and
  find specific resources.

2011.08 Monthly Report

December 2011

Live deployment during winter vacation between Wed 21st Dec 2011 and Tuesday 3rd January 2012 – exact date within this timeframe to be confirmed.

Included in this deployment are:

CDIP Features

• Add subject filter to performance reports so users can report on performance by subject and not just performance overall.
• Integrate existing resource reports into MLS
• 1a1.2.8 – My Learning Space provides full tracking and reporting on usage of resources at the school, department, class and individual level. Comparisons can be made between schools, departments, classes and individuals to benchmark and evaluate resource usage.
• 1a3.1.9: My Learning Space provides full tracking and reporting on learner’s performance from school, department and class level, down to the individual.
• 1a4.2.2  My Learning Space provides full tracking and reporting on system activity, user / group performance, department and class level, down to the individual. Comparisons can be made by authorised users between schools, departments, classes and individuals to benchmark and evaluate performance and activity. The scope of these reports can be tailored to ensure relevance.
• 1a1.2.3 shall support offline use of content and assessment for users who cannot connect to the internet. Any work completed offline will be synchronised upon reconnection.
• 1a4.1.5 Users shall be able to create web logs. … E-Blogger added to Google apps for individuals (subject to this being possible – will require a proof of concept before this can be fully committed to)
• Change name of embed widget name to ‘Web content’, make default name of embed widget editable. Improving validation on HTML widget on group dashboard as requested Shared folder widget to be set to default to top middle column
• Enable google transitioned apps – picasaweb etc
• The use of the “Enter” key on the keyboard should work for all search boxes (e.g Manage Individual User – you can’t press enter to search but on the knowledge tree you can).
• My Groups widget should be on personalised dash by default
• Feature Security – when amending an individual’s Feature Security, it ignores group settings from that point on. Need to amend UI so that it is clear where permissions are aren’t being inherited For CDSM ref only (#48084)
• Shared folder to be called Group folder in both the group dash and in My Buddies (currently called shared folder in one and group folder in the other)
• Light-box functionality across platform: KT, play lists, courses and assignments, widgets
• Feature Security – teachers need to be able to manage groups Feature Security – SIMS groups appear to be locked groups so Feature Security can’t be managed by the teacher

Enhancements included in this delivery are some or all of the following – what isn’t delivered will need to be rescheduled:

April 2012

Aim to deploy during spring vacation between Monday 2nd April 2012 and Monday 16th April 2012 – exact date within this timeframe to be confirmed.

Included in this deployment are:

Enhancements Included in this delivery are some or all of the following – what isn’t delivered will need to be rescheduled:

• Doc viewer for docs in all areas where files can be viewed – this will be subject to the enterprise licence of the document viewer used in MLS (Scribd) becoming available
• Improve knowledge tree upload procedure.. very clunky.. each page is different.. a simple wizard required
• Distinguishing by icon between files types (where they can be stored) so user knows what type file is
• Whenever there is a page 1, 2, 3 option include and all
• The ability to export user lists
• The ability for staff to delete assignments they receive but don’t need
• School level branding
• The ability to multi select when deleting items, adding people to groups etc
• When you send an assignment you should receive a single grouped message as with playlists
• Assignments in new skin and these enhancements: The need to delete and/or hide assignments/playlists from students who no longer need to access them and allow teachers to archive those they are not currently using
• Separate buddies from messages so messages can be turned off in Feature Security for schools that don’t want it.
• Until ‘web content’ boxes are perpetual can we have a Are you sure you want close? Message
• Ability to share assignments between colleagues or departments and modify them and share them on without affecting the original would be extremely useful and vastly increase functionality.
• grow portfolios dynamically i.e. an Art portfolio may be sent out with 2 initial items but more tasks added as the year goes on
• Moving files from one area to another
• When viewing an organisation all groups should be visible by default
• The ability for staff to forward playlists or assignments they have received on to other staff or pupils – achieved by adding ability to save courses/playlists/assignments to KT
• Any displayed lists whether usernames, assignments be shown in alphabetical order rather than random order. (Where a more suitable method is not employed)
• ability to add knowledge tree items to group shared folders
• Bulk upload to My Stuff/Shared folder.
• event stream : change default to be NOT everyone
• Bookmark This and Tag This should be separate – you may wish to tag it but not bookmark a resource. Every time you add a tag currently, a bookmark is created that you then have to remove.
• Portfolios need to allow the addition of folders so that multiple pieces of work can be uploaded into one ‘item.’ In primary schools, in particular, they want to save several pieces of evidence (e.g. literacy, numeracy, science, etc) together in a portfolio that contains folders for all or a range of subjects.

Included in this deployment are:

• Stability fixes to ensure system is robust for use at start of September term

Enhancements

• Report abuse and report bug forms separated.
• Ability to resend playlists.
• Additional functionality of being able to add web links to the event stream, file descriptions in the shared folder and file descriptions in my stuff.
• Improved validation for html widget on group dashboard.
• Ability for Junior to be turned on/off for individual schools.
• Report Abuse functionality added to Junior.
• Further optimisation of the junior interface to improve performance.
• Ability to view file descriptions in Junior’s Our Work.

We will be publishing a full roadmap of all developments for the next 6 months soon.

The following policy may be adopted or adapted to represent the practice of any school. There are many areas of potential overlap with a range of other policies. These can be referenced in the relevant paragraphs. The Governor checklist is not exhaustive, but serves as an example of how governors can challenge and monitor procedures and gather evidence of the school’s effectiveness in safeguarding.

The Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how relevant organisations will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and ensure the effectiveness of what they do.

This document is an overview of safeguarding work in schools.  In the case of any serious incident schools should always make reference to formal LSCB guidance. Procedures can be accessed through www.northlincs.gov.uk/LSCB

Download (word): SAFEGUARDING POLICY & GOVERNORS CHECKLIST July 2011