Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.
This year, Safer Internet Day celebrated with the theme ‘Want to Talk About it?’ to encourage and inspire national conversations about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically, and creatively.
In school this year, each class was encouraged to take part in discussions and debates about being online, with the emphasis on the thinking and discussions around which aspects of our lives are improved by the internet and which are more meaningful in real life.
EYFS took part in a ‘Technology Hunt’ around their classrooms and talked about when and where they would find these items and how they could use them.
Key Stage 1 watched ‘Hanni and the Magic Window’ and thought about all the amazing things that the internet lets us do and see. They drew their own magic windows and what they’d like to see.
Key Stage 2 took part in a range of activities to encourage thinking and discussion including an age limit timeline and completing the ‘Alph-net’.
They also discussed an aspect of the Youth Charter to ask the government to pledge to make the internet a safer, more respectful place.