Castleview
2022-2023
Wednesday 8th June 2023
Alan Mackenzie Visit
The Year 5s and 6s had the pleasure of an Online Safety Consultant, Alan Mackenzie teaching us the the importance of how to be safe online. He enlightened the children with online disinhibition and how your words can affect others behind the screen. They went away highly informed. 
In the evening, Alan Mackenzie delivered his parent talk. The Digital Leader team kicked off the event with an introductory presentation about their online lives with a snap-shot into the games, activities and influencers they follow.
Alan educated parents on the four areas of risk children face online: Content, Contact, Conduct and Commercial. He outlined the current platforms that children are using, followed by a final section on steps parents can take to help protect their children online.
The talk received positive feedback to say how insightful the talk was. We look forward to welcoming even more parents next year!
Following on from his talk, Alan has shared a summary of the information he presented and some useful links, in a parent information pack that you can find here below:-
Online Safety Information for Parents
Tuesday 14th March 2023
Volunteers from the NSPCC delivered their "Speak out. Stay safe." workshop to Years 5 and 6. They talked about the importance of being able to speak out if there were ever any problems. They discussed physical and mental health with us and taught us about boundaries and speaking up for ourselves. After the talk was over, the ladies gave us a range of activities to do with mental health scenarios and also gave us the materials to make a chatterbox (a paper ‘fortune teller’) based on scenarios that may come up. We have benefitted so much! Our children held insightful conversations and meaningful discussions with one another and handled example scenarios in an extremely mature manner.
Tuesday 7th February 2023
This year's theme was 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online' The Digital Leader's got the day started with an amazing assembly. All children from Nursery to Year 6 took part in a range of activities with an online safety message.
Here are the highlights:-
Thursday 8th December 2022
Castleview celebrated 'Be Internet Legends Day'! The children thoroughly enjoyed the assembly and loved all the shout outs from the Be Internet Legends team! This years theme was ‘Digital Wellbeing’! Following the assembly, the children spent the morning on a range of Online Safety and Digital Wellbeing activities.
Thursday 20th October 2022
We had an amazing live assembly on Thursday afternoon from 'The Parents Zone' at Google. Classes across the school had a fantastic time learning about online safety! All in all, it inspired the children to be safer and more confident online explorers.
