Digital Dragons 23-24!

 

Mission Statement

Our purpose is to help pupils, staff, parents, grandparents and governors with digital tools and help them to keep them safe online by setting a good example

Our Aims:

  • To help everyone in our school understand how to keep safe when using technology at home.
  • To help others understand the different social media platforms and the guidelines around using them.
  • To encourage others to use digital technology safely and with confidence.

Online Safety:

We are very proud of the Keeping Safe online webpage that we have been working hard on to create. This can be found on our website- http://www.pontlliwprimary.co.uk/home/information/keeping-safe-online/

Safer Internet Day!

The theme of this year’s Safer Internet Day was ‘Want to talk about it?’. This year the Digital Dragons enjoyed hosting a whole school assembly where they spoke about this theme and the important rules that we must follow when using digital platforms. We also spoke about trusted people who you can turn to if you need any help or support.

Below you can see pictures from our assembly:

Meeting Notes:

 Autumn Term

14/9/23

  • Register taken of all pupils attending today’s session.
  • Introduction to Digital Dragons and welcome. Reminded all pupils of the purpose of the Digital Dragons.
  • Plan for next week- to begin to set out our aims for the year ahead and actions needed to meet aims.

21/9/23

  • Register taken.
  • Voted in Chair, Vice Chairs and secretary from Year 6.
  • Mapped out our aims and goals for the year ahead.
  • Reviewed mission statement.

We decided on our aims for the year:

– To look at how to keep pupils safe online.

– To promote learning apps and games that are helpful and fun.

28/9/23

  • Register taken
  • Reflection on what we do well digitally in school:
  • Minecraft Education- Sumdog- Active Learn- Get Epic- Sphero’s- J2e- Teams.
  • Voted on an app of the term- Sumdog.
  • Thought of ways to promote this e.g. Sumdog competitions.

05/10/23

  • Register taken.
  • Looked at our online safety page on school website.
  • Discussed what we liked about the page and what we needed to amend.
  • Looked for resources that we liked to add on to our page.

12/10/23

•            No meeting due to staff training.

19/10/23

•            No meeting due to school trip for years 4 ,5 and 6.

23/10/23

  • Register taken.
  • Drafted email to send to parents informing them of the ‘In the Know’ app guide that we have placed on our online safety page.
  • Plan for next week- to plan next steps and activities we can carry out to meet our aims:

– Safer Internet Day Assembly and activities.

– Create a Minecraft world to promote Minecraft- characters telling online safety.

– Email promoting apps and games.

– Make a poster- Safer Internet Day.

13/11/23

  • Register taken.
  • Discussed the importance of Anti-bullying week for us as a Digital Dragon group.
  • Discussion of what cyber-bullying is and how we can share information to others about strategies to overcome this. 

23/11/23

  • Register taken.
  • Began by making online safety posters- revised key online safety rules- SMART.
  • Split into small groups- some groups used the computer and other pupils did their own drawings.

7/12/23

  • Register taken.
  • Continued with ‘SMART’ online safety posters.
  • Discussed key aims for next term and steps that we can take to ensure we achieve this.

Spring Term

11/1/24

  • Register taken.
  • Welcome back after the holidays and a reminded ourselves of our aims for this term.
  • Discussed the theme of this Year’s Safer Internet Day ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online?’.
  • Noted down ideas for what we could cover during this assembly and some of the resources that we could let everyone know about that will help them keep safe online. 

25/1/24

  • Register taken
  • Gathered resources ready to share with teachers- wrote an email to all teachers reminding them about Safer Internet Day.
  • Practiced presentation for Safer Internet Day whole school assembly and gave out parts.

6/2/24

  • Digital dragons delivered a whole school assembly on Safer Internet Day.

8/2/24

  • No Pupil Voice- ‘Dare to be you’ day.

29/2/24

  • Register taken.
  • Reviewed Digital Dragons display in the school hall.
  • Updated display and added up to date QR codes and information for pupils to learn all about Online Safety.
  • Decided that our next app of the month will be Linguascope- all digital dragons to go back and inform their classes.

Summer Term

18/4/24

  • Register taken.
  • Voted on Digital Dragon design a lanyard competition.
  • Started to design leaflets to distribute to pupils and parents on key apps/platforms that we use e.g. J2e/ Microsoft PowerPoint.