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Instagram Gossip Style Pages
We are aware of a growing trend in the UK that we call “baited pages”. These usually appear on Instagram, but we have also seen this on other Social media platforms...
26th January 2016
A Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes at Safer Internet Day 2016 TV Filming
This year’s Safer Internet Day will take place on the 9th February and we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make this the best yet! We had a great time last week travelling around the country filming the content for SID TV, click here for a behind the scenes diary of what we got up to...
9th December 2015
Anti-Bullying week, what do you have planned?
There are many ways to get involved in Anti-Bullying Week 2015 and everyone’s voice or stand against bullying matters. Let’s make a noise about bullying!
9th November 2015
Is Superfast Broadband in your area yet?
With the ever increasing use of internet within schools the demand for Superfast Broadband continuing to grow. Is it in your area yet?
15th October 2015
Looking beyond Online Safety in the Digital Literacy Curriculum
The education of online safety schools is very high on the agenda within the new Computing curriculum, and rightfully so. But Digital Literacy goes a lot further than this - have you got the full curriculum covered?
14th October 2015
Empower staff, get compliant with Online Safety BOOST
Since 2013, we have been helping schools train and protect staff, students and parents with our online safety toolkit BOOST. Since winning a BETT award earlier this year, we have completely redeveloped the system - here is the lowdown on the new system.
13th October 2015
Help Your Students To Sharpen Up Search Techniques
Typing simply “River” into Google isn’t necessarily going to return learning resources to help you with your Geography home learning project. There are a number of ways that can help students to improve the accuracy of returns in web searches...
8th September 2015
7 Simple Online Safety Tips for Newly Qualified Teachers
September and the start of term is fast approaching, a daunting time for NQT’s! But while you’re packing your pencil case and finishing off your lesson plans, turn your thoughts to online safety and follow these simple tips in protecting your online identity, and the children you’re teaching.
27th August 2015
Make This The Year You Get Online Safety Right For Your School
As another new school year approaches and the beautiful summer rain clouds we all enjoyed seem but a distant memory, thoughts turn to new classes; new strategies; new challenges.
27th August 2015
Sexting
We all know the biggest worry occurs when those pictures leave the hands of the creator and are shared wider than the intended audience. In some cases ending up being shared by and even sold to paedophiles. The ramifications of this can be huge and emotionally distressing for the victim...
19th August 2015
Cyber-Flashing: What is it? How do you stop it?
What is Cyber-Flashing and how can you stop it? Just like when you leave the house you lock up - we should also secure our technology...
19th August 2015
Survive The Tech Summer Holidays
The weeks are ticking by and if you are a parent or looking after children of school age, you are counting down to the summer holidays. No doubt games consoles, tablets and the internet will also feature high on the kids’ things to do list. Read our guide and hopefully have a great summer holiday.
14th July 2015
Making Sense of the New Online Safety Standards
Ofsted has published the long awaited changes to the way it inspects all education and skills settings from September 2015. This includes significant changes to how they consider and inspect Online Safety...
29th June 2015
Extreme Measures
David Wright explores the dangers to children’s wellbeing posed by political extremists on social media and outlines the steps schools can take to protect students from indoctrination online...
22nd June 2015