Online Safety
The aims of the Online Safety Curriculum at Walsgrave Academy:
- To develop children’s knowledge about how to keep themselves and others safe, including online
- To enable children to thrive safety in the digital age.
Delivering the Online Safety Curriculum at Walsgrave Academy:
Our Online Safety Curriculum provides children with progressive learning opportunities designed to develop their knowledge and skills to keep themselves safe when engaging with the digital world. A bespoke, self- designed online safety curriculum is taught from Nursery to Year 6 through half termly online safety lessons. Six core aspects are covered across each year:
| Term | Theme | Description |
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| Autumn 1 | Privacy and security online | This strand explores how personal online information can be used, stored, processed and shared. It offers both behavioural and technical strategies to limit impact on privacy and protect data and systems against compromise. |
| Autumn 2 | Online bullying | This strand explores bullying and other online aggression and how technology impacts those issues. It offers strategies for effective reporting and intervention and considers how bullying and other aggressive behaviour relates to legislation. |
| Spring 1 | Health, wellbeing and lifestyle | This strand explores the impact that technology has on health, well being and lifestyle such as mood, sleep, body health and relationships. It also includes understanding negative behaviours and issues amplified and sustained by online technologies and the strategies for dealing with them. |
| Spring 2 | Online relationships | This strand explores how technology shapes communication styles and identifies strategies for positive relationships in online communities. It offers opportunities to discuss relationships, respecting, giving and denying consent and behaviours that may lead to harm and how positive online interaction can empower and amplify voice. |
| Summer 1 | Self image and identity online | This strand explores the differences between online and offline identity, beginning with self awareness, shaping online identities and media influences on propagating stereotypes. It identifies effective routes for reporting and support, and explores the impact on online technologies on self image and behaviour. |
| Summer 2 | Online information | This strand explores how online information is found, viewed and interpreted. It offers strategies for effective searching, critical evaluation of data, the recognition of risks and the management of online threats and challenges. It explores how online threats can pose risks to our physical safety as well as online safety. It also covers learning relevant to ethical publishing. |
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Half termly lessons are supplemented by an assembly and a home learning leaflet
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Links are made to National Online Safety Events, including Anti- Bullying Week and Safer Internet Day
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Planning for all aspects is informed by National Online Safety- ‘Online Safety Lesson Plans’.
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Across the curriculum. Learning activities involving use of online materials provide opportunities to reinforce and apply knowledge from the ‘Online Safety Curriculum, including permissions, online information and safe internet use.
