- Completing training on how to stay safe online
- Running assemblies and parent workshops
- Meeting each half term to discuss key issues
- Creating promotional material such as leaflets and posters
Annual Summaries
A summary of 2024 – 2025
Digital Leaders at Southwold have had a busy year driving their subject in their classrooms and across the school with great enthusiasm and energy. Each week they have shared key E-safety messages with their classmates at the beginning of their weekly computing lessons. They also led assemblies and activities in classes on Safer Internet Day in February where this years theme was ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online’.
Our Year 5 and Year 6 Digital Leaders were on hand to support the delivery of two computing themed parent coffee mornings. In Autumn term the theme was Online-Safety: What does our curriculum teach about being safe online? Followed in the Spring term with Online safety: How can I support my child to use digital technologies responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively?
At Southwold we have Ipads and Chromebooks for all year groups to access and the Digital Leaders have done a fantastic job in ensuring that these resources are looked after, returned to their trolleys and fully charged and ready for lessons and activities across the week.
A summary of 2023 – 2024
Southwold Digital Leaders have enthusiastically fulfilled their responsibilities in 2024. In their role as Digital Leaders, they had been meticulously tracking the usage of devices such as iPads and Chromebooks, ensuring their proper and secure storage within each classroom. In addition, Digital Leaders have been responsible for delivering key safety messages to their peers, reinforcing the importance of how to stay safe online. They also helped to host an e-safety coffee morning for parents in the Autumn term and the Year 5 and 6 Digital Leaders were actively involved in planning and delivering the assemblies with the Computing Leads. Finally, they played an integral part in Safer Internet Day 2024, which celebrated the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. Their assembly presentations, which were delivered to all-year groups, focused on:
- Young people’s perspective on new and emerging technology
- Using the internet to make change for the better
- The changes young people want to see online
- The things that can influence and change the way young people think, feel and act online and offline
A summary of 2022 – 2023
The Digital Leaders had diligently fulfilled their responsibilities over the year. They had been meticulously tracking the usage of devices such as iPads and Chromebooks, ensuring their proper and secure storage within each classroom. Over the year, they held informative assemblies to deliver essential online safety messages to their peers, reinforcing the importance of staying safe online. For the Safer Internet Day theme of ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’, their assembly presentations were delivered to all-year groups with a focus on how to be safe and respectful while online gaming. The Year 5 and 6 Digital Leaders were actively involved in planning and delivering the assemblies with the ICT Leads. The Digital Leaders had diligently fulfilled their responsibilities over the year. They had been meticulously tracking the usage of devices such as iPads and Chromebooks, ensuring their proper and secure storage within each classroom. Over the year, they held informative assemblies to deliver essential online safety messages to their peers, reinforcing the importance of staying safe online. For the Safer Internet Day theme of ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’, their assembly presentations were delivered to all-year groups with a focus on how to be safe and respectful while online gaming. The Year 5 and 6 Digital Leaders were actively involved in planning and delivering the assemblies with the ICT Leads. Through creative brainstorming, they successfully put together an online safety video tips video which can be viewed by clicking here.
A summary of 2021 – 2022
The Digital Leaders held many cross-site meetings, joining their Digital Leader peers from our partnership schools, Orchard and Hoxton Garden. During these meetings, they gathered information and engaged in lively conversations about their perceptions of computing, explored ways to enhance the ICT curriculum throughout the school, and collaboratively brainstormed strategies to promote the upcoming Safer Internet Day. They also proudly acted as IT role models, demonstrating their newly learnt skills from the previous terms’ ICT lessons, showcasing their diverse talents across various iPad apps.
