A DROITWICH school held a range of events to mark International Safer Internet Day.
Westacre Middle School, which is currently a nationally-accredited ICT Mark school and Centre of Excellence for IT, put on the activities to get youngsters thinking about staying safe online.
As part of the build-up to Safer Internet Day, the school’s pupil digital leaders in the Cyber Council had a trip to the Sky Academy Studios at the Sky TV Headquarters in London, where pupils and staff visited in 2015.
There they had a tour of the facilities and watched a live broadcast from the Sky Sports News studios.
Westacre’s Cyber Council used Sky’s technology to create their own news report about the impact of social media on young people.
The youngsters, aged nine to 12, got to experience life in front of and behind the cameras as they operated cameras, recorded voice-overs and completely edited their own bulletin.
The film itself was shared with the school’s 380 pupils during a whole school assembly and can be watched via the school’s website at http://www.westacre-middle-school.co.uk/e-safety-1/
Other activities included class debates, online quizzes and acting out dramas linked to the day’s motto: ‘Create, Connect and Share Respect: A Better Internet Starts With You’.
Pupils from Chawson, Dodderhill and Ombersley schools visited to work with Westacre’s year five and seven digital leaders together to create their own reports about e-safety, using the knowledge learnt from Sky.
Paul Barber, Westacre’s deputy head and e-safety co-ordinator, said: “As a school, we are always looking at ways to highlight the benefits and dangers associated with technology and the internet.
“To be able to run so many events this week has created a buzz around school and helped to spread the important messages from Safer Internet Day.
“It is always a pleasure to welcome colleagues and students from other schools across the Droitwich pyramid and this week has only helped to strengthen that bond.”
He congratulated the Cyber Council which worked incredibly hard and had an impact both inside Westacre and outside.
