Year 6 children from St Mary and St Joseph’s RC Primary School in Blackburn have scooped first and second prize in the Safety Competition 2009 to raise awareness of Safer Internet Day.
Primary and secondary schools pupils were asked to write a plan for a short film to help other young people use the internet safely.
The three minute films at the school in Bennington Street were designed during ICT lessons with support from teachers and the winning children then went on to make their films under the guidance of James Hardy, the Blackburn with Darwen City Learning Centre (CLC) manager.
First prize winners received a Dell mini laptop each, provided by North West Learning Grid to help raise awareness of Safer Internet Day.
Second prize winners received an Asus mini laptop donated by Blackburn with Darwen E-learning service.
The children were presented with their prizes by the head of service Ann Bennett during a special assembly where the films had their first public viewing in front of the whole school.
The completed films will soon be available to watch on the Blackburn with Darwen learning platform, at www.learningbwd.org.uk.
The learning platform is an online environment containing a collection of tools that allows users to communicate, collaborate and share ideas and resources. All school staff and pupils have access to it.
All schools in Blackburn and Darwen now have e-safety policies, and extra e-safety training will be offered in schools across the borough from September.
Two of the first ever e-safety Ofsted inspections were carried out at St Edward’s RC Primary School in Darwen and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour RC Primary in Blackburn recently, and both schools were praised by inspectors for their internet safety measures.
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