Internet Safety Education Pack

As part of our on-going promotion of safe Internet practice in schools, we are pleased to have been able to send resources to your school. The documents below were distributed to all schools.

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	Webwise: Internet Safety Information and Advice for Schools This publication focuses on guidelines, educational resources and technical options relating to safety on the Internet at school level. Included is a section on developing an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) along with sample templates. It also contains practical advice on how to use ths Internet safely in schools.
	Webwise 2006 Survey of Children's Use of the Internet This publication contains the executive summary of a large-scale survey of children’s use of the Internet in Ireland. The NCTE carried out this survey in order to identify their online risk behaviour. 848 students between the ages of 9 and 16 in over 21 schools across the country completed questionnaires containing over 100 questions on their use of the Internet.
	Surfwise: Education Programme This Education programme for 7 - 14 year olds focuses on the key Internet Safety issues that relate to use of the Internet by children in schools. As well as classroom and take-home activity sheets, this education programme contains online interactive lessons that use animated characters to demonstrate how to search safely and how to check that information they come across online is reliable.
	Cyberbullying Poster Developed in consulatation with the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), this poster provides practical advice to help post-primary students to cope with instances of cyberbulllying. The poster displays the web address of the NCTE's WATCH_YOUR_SPACE website which informs students of how to report instances to the website owners and authorities, it also links into the listening and support services provided by Childline.
	Personal Information Poster This poster promotes responsible and safe use of the social networking and photo sharing websites for post primary students. It give practical advice to young web users on how to protect their personal informaiton when they are interacting online..
	10 Tips for Parents Parents are key actors in fostering an ethos of positive use of the Internet by young people. This advice sheet for parents contains pragmatic advice for parents to engage in their children’s online experiences. Please feel free to copy this sheet and distribute it to the parents of your students.