E-Safety and Anti-bullying Cyberbullying workshops for Primary & Preparatory Schools (KS2)

NB: for secondary schools or through schools from 3-18, we offer a KS3 workshop, a KS4 workshop and a KS5 workshop, as well as staff and parents’ awareness sessions.

For primary/preparatory schools we offer a package of an extended assembly/workshop for KS2 pupils and awareness raising sessions for staff and parents. We believe that a parents' session is particularly important as it is vital that parents establish ground rules with their children when they are in KS2, before they become firmly entrenched in adolescence and adolescent use of chatrooms and interactive internet sites. A typical package might be.

KS2 60 minutes interactive assembly/workshop with the following aims.

To consider the difference between use and abuse of technology .
To consider the vulnerability of photographs on phones and the internet.  
To consider what we really mean by "Don't talk to strangers!"  
To ensure understanding of how easy it can be to become carried away with conversations & relationships in the real and the virtual world.
To consider what is bullying and how it can be perpetrated via the internet and mobile technology .
To consider the reasons for age limits on chatrooms.
To provide tools with which children and young people can safeguard themselves in their use of the internet, chatrooms (& mobile phones).

The pupils' session is followed by either

a staff twilight session and then a parents' evening session, or  
a combined staff and parents' session, either as a twilight or evening event.

This can also be arranged at a weekend (for boarding schools and other residential settings).

This presentation for adults pulls no punches – setting out the dangers to which young people are exposing themselves, identifying signs of concern and aiming to provide some tools for staff and parents.

We illustrate the approach we have used with KS2, so that parents are aware of the input their children have received, but the parents' session leaves nothing to the imagination!

The specific objectives of the staff & parents session(s) are:

To raise awareness of the manner in which young people use the internet (& mobile phones) 
To consider the size of the issue now and in the future 
To raise awareness of the language of textspeak
To increase understanding of the signs of vulnerability 
To provide tools with which to safeguard children and young people in their use of the internet (& mobile phones)