Internet Safety At Hartismere we recognise how useful the internet is for education. We are also fully aware of the potential dangers of misusing the internet. All internet access in school is filtered for staff and students. Different levels of filter are applied to different age groups: Years 7 and 8 have filters suitable for middle school children while Years 9 to 13 have secondary school level filters. Sixth Form students are welcome to bring their own laptop into school, and these also work through the school's internet filters. These proxy/cache filters are owned and maintained by Suffolk County Council who are members of the East of England Broadband Consortium. In addition to the Authority's filters, the school operates its own filters and we also block all Instant Messenger style programs and Peer-to-Peer networking. At Hartismere we believe that filtering access for students is only half the story. We also educate children to use the internet safely and responsibly. In Year 7 we have a discrete unit of work that discusses chat rooms, mobile phone use and protecting personal information, while other Year groups complete an assessed assignment as part of their OCR Nationals in ICT award that deals with emails. Hartismere operates a Safeguarding and Child Protection policy which is strictly adhered to.

Safer Internet Day Feb 9th 2010 The task is to create a poster raising awareness of "Think B4 U post!" to be used on the school screen saver. This could be about risks and potential dangers of posting comments, photos and links on places such as Facebook.   saferinternet Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. The topic for 2010 is "Think B4 U post!". The task is to create a poster raising awareness of "Think B4 U post!" to be used on the school screen saver. This could be about risks and potential dangers of posting comments, photos and links on places such as Facebook. View these websites for more information about the day and internet safety: Thinkyouknow.co.uk saferinternet.org Hand in your poster here   Please login to see your exercise progress. Created by R Sorhaindo 26/01/10 15:43 Clicks: 116 Comments Name   Comment Rating      All comments are public and available for everyone to read. Alternatively, send a message to Hartismere School... Warning: This item has expired. Be a Digizen Go Tips on beating cyber-bullying Go Let's Fight it Together Read More... Playing Around Go Digital Citizen Go Us Online Go Thinkyouknow Go Wisekids Go KnowITall Go Net Detectives Go Load more items...

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