On Tuesday 7th February, Rotherhithe Primary School and other schools across the UK took part in Safer Internet Day. This year’s Safer Internet Day was the 20th edition of the campaign.
In the gallery below you will see our Keystage 1 children busy designing a costume for their Bee Bop Robots to wear. They then dressed the robots in their costumes and programmed them to move and dance.
Keystage 2 children took part in an online workshop covering “being safe on the internet”. This workshop covered a wide variety of important safety tips to consider when browsing the internet, using a social media app or other activities online. They later took part in a Microsoft developed Role Playing game called “Internet Legends Interland”. The game posed some challenging puzzles that the children had to solve in order to move forward within the several virtual worlds available to them within this exciting platform.
Over the years, Safer Internet Day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar. Starting as an initiative of the EU Safe Borders project in 2004 and taken up by the Insafe network as one of its earliest actions in 2005, Safer Internet Day has grown beyond its traditional geographic zone and is now celebrated in approximately 180 countries and territories worldwide.
From cyberbullying to social networking to digital identity, each year Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness of emerging online issues and current concerns.