Internet Safety and Responsible Use: for Pupils, Parents and Staff

In October 2007 Musselburgh Grammar School became the first school in Scotland to run an Internet Safety Evening for parents using the  ' Purely for Parents ' resources produced by the Child Exploitation Online Protection Agency (CEOP - www.ceop.gov.uk).  The event was a great success and staff from the school have been asked to deliver the training in a number of other authorities in both the public and private sector. The school also has comprehensive programme for delivering Internet Safety and Responsible Use Training to staff and students.

This presentation will briefly talk about how the training was delivered within the Musselburgh area for parents, school staff, secondary and primary children. It will also offer advice on how you could set up your own learning community for sustainable responsible use training.

The main focus of the presentation will be showing the audience the various resources produced by CEOP so that they can get a real feel for the types of issues surrounding internet safety and responsible use. During the presentation the audience will be taken inside a number of websites including Bebo, MSN Messenger, Chatrooms, Habbo Hotel and other popular sites where young people like to hang out.

These websites will be used to discuss various safety and responsible use messages.This presentation will be eye opening for teachers and educators who are unfamiliar with how some children behave on-line.

Ollie Bray is Deputy Headteacher at Musselburgh Grammar School (www.mgsonline.org.uk) and Geography subject support coordinator for East Lothian. 

He has won numerous awards for classroom practice and project development, including a Royal Geographical Society Innovative Teaching Award, two Learning and Teaching Scotland ICT Enhancement Awards and a Microsoft / SQA Partners in Learning Award.

He has contributed to the publication four textbooks and various other on-line and off line resources.
Recently he became one of the first teachers in Scotland to be appointed as a CEOP Ambassador (Child Exploitation Online Protection Agency).

Ollie is a member of the Association of Outdoor Learning and a full member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors (AMI).

His learning log can be found at www.olliebray.com