Castleview Online Safety Committee Meetings Updates
Autumn 1 Online Safety Committee Meeting (October 2024)
Our first meeting of the year. We welcomed Mrs Mughal (Governor), Mrs Aamer (TLA and Parent) and the Year 6 Digital Leaders to the committee. They were presented with their Online Safety Committee badges. Agenda items covered in this meeting included; roles of the committee, reviewing policies and the update of our 360Safe Online Safety Award.
Spring 2 Online Safety Committee Meeting (February 2024)
The agenda included reviewing the filtering and monitoring word base, the 360safe award and a review of Safer Internet Day 2024. We also welcomed our new committee member, Parent Govenor Mrs Mughal.
Autumnn 2 Online Safety Committee Meeting (November 2023)
The agenda included an update from our tech company, TSI discussing Castleview's filtering and monitoring. Information was gathered on whether we were inline with the latest goverment guidelines. We were happy to know we are up to date. We also reviewed the BeInternetLegends Day with the Year 6 Digital Leaders, which was a successful day.
First Online Safety Committee of the Year (October 2023)
The Online Safety Committee is comprised of a range of stakeholders from across the school including; SLT, teachers, governors, parents and our amazing Year 6 Digital Leader’s. Members new to the committee, were extremely pleased to be presented with their committee badges. We welcomed Mr Macgill as a DSL onto our committee.
The Digital Leaders made insightful contributions on a range of agenda items including; reviewing current online safety instances, reviewing the online safety pages of our school website and the CEOP button.
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2022-2023
Agenda items included; reviewing Safer Internet Day, evaluation of our newly launched online safety webpages,
judging entries for our competition on the best poster/poem for online safety (KS1+KS2) and planning for next term.
Online Safety Committee (December 2022)
We had the second meeting of the term, where one of the items on the agenda was our online safety page for children. Prior to the meeting, the Digital Leaders and Junior Leaders critically analysed the page with Mrs Ahmed and made valuable contributions to bring some changes.
Online Safety Committee (October 2022)
The Online Safety Committee is comprised of a range of stakeholders from across the school including; SLT, teachers, governors, parents and our amazing Year 6 Digital Leader’s. Members new to the committee, were extremely pleased to be presented with their committee badges. The Digital Leaders made insightful contributions on a range of agenda items including; reviewing current online safety instances, reviewing the online safety pages of our school website as well as planning upcoming online safety events.
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2021-2022
Online Safety Committee (July 2022)
All good things come to an end. It was the final online safety meeting of the year with our current Year 6 digital leaders. We reviewed all the activities we have done over the year and reflected on their value and feasability going forward. Our very professional Digital Leaders also gave their suggestions and ideas for plans going forward next year. These have been taken on board and will be implemented next year! Watch this space!
Thank you to everyone who was a part of the Online Safety Committee this year!
Online Safety Committee (April 2022)
The Online Safety Committee meets every half term to discuss topics relating to online Safety. The Year 6 Digital Leaders presented feedback to the committee on Safer Internet Day, which took place in February. They spoke eloquently and with great insight on the topic. Other agenda items included; the upcoming visit of online safety consultant Alan Mackenzie, Year 6 pupils setting their own strong passwords in their Gmail account and the purchasing of new online safety themed books. Thankyou everyone who gave up their time to attend.
Online Safety Committee (November 2021)
The Online Safety Committee is comprised of a range of stakeholders from across the school including; SLT, teachers, governors, parents and our amazing Year 6 Digital Leader’s. Members new to the committee, were extremely pleased to be presented with their committee badges. The Digital Leaders made insightful contributions on a range of agenda items including; reviewing current online safety instances, reviewing the online safety pages of our school website, as well as planning upcoming online safety events.
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2020-2021
Online Safety Committee (July 2021)
On Thursday 9th July, the final Online Safety Committee meeting of the year was held.
The items discussed included:
- Review of the year.
- Review of Safer Internet Day
- Review of the Alan Mackenzie visit
- What actions can be taken next year.
The Year 6 Digital Leaders made some valuable contributions on how their experiences were and what we could adapt and change going forward. Their feedback was very much appreciated and will be taken on board.
As this was the final meeting of the year, we take this opportunity to wish our Year 6 Digital Leaders every success in their future endeavours.
Online Safety Committee (May 2021)
On Thursday 13th May, the Online Safety Committee reconvened, after an enforced break due to Covid 19 restrictions. Sadly since the last meeting, Helen St Ledger resigned her governor position. The committee wanted to thank Helen for all her support over the past three years. Pinky Sandhu and Prakash Beegala have agreed to step into the role of governor representatives so they were welcomed to the committee and presented with their Online Safety Committee badges by Year Six Digital Leaders.
Agenda items included the following items:
- A review of school policies (Online Safety, Email and Password policies)
- TSI Tech support
- 360 Online Safety Award
- Alan Mackenzie Online Safety Advisor visit
- Online Safety instances
The Year 6 Digital Leaders presented a fantastic review into the Castleview website and websites from a range of other local schools. The adults were extremely impressed by the quality of their contributions. The review was to provide feedback to Mrs Armstrong, who is heading an upgrade of our current website.
Online Safety Committee (November 2020)
On Thursday 5th November, the first Online Safety Committee meeting of the year was held. There was a packed agenda, items discussed included:
- The role and responsibility of the committee
- The terms of reference for 2020
- Acceptable use policies for staff and children
- A review of the Goggle Legends Online assembly
- Online Safety instances
The Year 6 Digital Leaders made some fantastic contributions. The highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of brand new committee badges. The staff, including Mrs St Ledger (governor) who received hers virtually, were particularly excited to be awarded a badge!
