Year 7 & 8 eSafety briefing for Parents & Carers

Format of the evening  Introduction – Mr Pearce  eSafety briefing – Mr Pearce & Student Digital Leaders  eSafety & the curriculum – Mrs Bowyer  Drama rehearsal – Mrs Ryan & Drama students  Questions

eSafety briefing  Instagram – Hira & Amelia  AskFM – Florence  Tumblr - Beth & Elysia  SnapChat – Kate & Aqsa  General eSafety tips – Mr Pearce

Instagram Hira

Instagram  Instagram is a social media site where pictures can be shared  DM- direct message- allows you to talk to others; group DMs’ can be made  Accounts can be changed to private  You can block and report accounts

Issues  Shared Accounts  Strangers  Privacy on DM  Photo map/ Naming locations

Settings

AskFM Florence

Asking a question

The homepage

Questions

Answering a question

Tumblr Beth & Elysia

Tumblr Posts Recommend Blogs Homepage Inbox Activity Account Explore

The Tumblr Blog

Settings

Snapchat Kate & Aqsa

Snapchat  Self-destructing videos and images ​  Last up to 10 seconds ​  Story - lasts for 24 hours ProfileSendingTaking photo Adding text & timer

Issues with Snapchat  Since the images are "self- destructing", people feel as though they can send anything ​  Screenshotting apps ​  ​ Photos stored by Snapchat ​  Multi-tasking screenshots  Rename friends ​  Sending to the wrong person ​

Safety precautions  Advise your daughter to check her privacy settings  Don’t send something you don’t want public  Don’t put your snapchat code online

General eSafety tips Mr Pearce Network and Infrastructure Manager

What do Ofsted say?  e-safety may be described as the school’s ability:  to protect and educate pupils and staff in their use of technology  to have the appropriate mechanisms to intervene and support any incident where appropriate.  3 main areas of risk:  content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful material  contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users  conduct: personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm.  Pupils in the schools that had ‘managed’ systems had better knowledge and understanding of how to stay safe than those in schools with ‘locked down’ systems.

What protection is in place?  Acceptable Use Agreement  Establishes rights and responsibilities  Signed by all students in Year 7 & 12  Need reminders?  “Bloxx” web filtering to restrict access to:  Social media sites, etc  Sites with inappropriate content  Impero monitoring software  Monitors keyboard input  Logs “concerning” activity (based on key words)  Human filtering (due to an awful lot of “false positives”)  Only applies to our network – we can’t monitor 3/4G connections!

Protecting Privacy (except from assembly) 1.You do not share your password 2.You do not share your password 3.Pick a password that’s hard for other people to guess  Most “hacking” is nothing of the sort!  A few random words works well  Change it if you think someone else knows it  Use different passwords for different sites 4.Do not assume any communication online is private!  Text conversations may be shared – with or without your knowledge  Images may be shared, stored, edited or commented upon 5.Check your privacy settings  Ask a friend or Student Digital Leader if you’re not sure

Reporting (excerpt from assembly)  If you see something bad, or feel threatened, use the CEOP site to make a report  “Better safe than sorry”  Act sooner rather than later  All sites have ways of reporting inappropriate content or behaviour  Typing the site name and “Reporting” into Google is usually enough to find out how to do it  Do not engage in conversation  Block first, ask questions later….

Perennial issues  Shared logins  Breaks the first two rules!  Applies to social media and network accounts  “Fallings out”  Particularly an issue coupled with the above  Fake accounts  “Impersonation” prohibited by Social Media AUPs  A form of cyber-bullying

In summary Encourage your daughter to:  Be careful with her password and other personal details  Think about what she posts online:  What effect might her posts have on others?  What effect might her posts have on her (particularly in the future)?  Check her privacy settings  Report any unwanted activity:  To you  To us  To the service  To CEOP (in extreme cases)  Talk with you about what she’s doing online

eSafety and the curriculum Mrs Bowyer Head of Citizenship

eSafety via the curriculum  E- safety is not just the responsibility of one department  here at AGGS we take a cross curricular approach to wellbeing as a whole, but especially when it comes to E – safety.  Yr 7 Citizenship example: communities  Not just cross curricular but a multi agency approach too : All year groups in KS3 have had an extra curricular talk/ activity on e- safety.

Resources used in Cit & PSHE  Main provider of materials is CEOP  THINK YOU KNOW resources. -All age appropriate -Yr 7: Claire thought she knew -Year 8 – reporting abuse online – this is abuse website -Year 9 – sexting & sending photos -Year 11 – online sexual exploitation – EXPLOITED FILM.

Drama rehearsal Mrs Ryan Head of Drama