BESA CORNER
This month, in our ongoing feature highlighting the work of members of the UK education suppliers’ trade body BESA, we hear from NATIONAL ONLINE SAFETY; and ed tech supplier eMATHSMASTER.
National Online Safety: Time to upskill your whole school
community in internet safety Equipping staff, parents and children with the knowledge they need to navigate and mitigate online safeguarding risks, now lies firmly at the heart of child safeguarding in the UK. It’s an inescapable fact of modern life, that online activity is interwoven in many aspects of child protection, from the prevention of child exploitation, to the tackling of bullying. James Southworth, Co-Founder of National Online Safety, said: “Our
research with UK primary and secondary schools has highlighted some worrying statistics regarding school staff’s knowledge and understanding of their pupils’ online activity. Schools are being urged to do more to prepare children for the so-called social media ‘cliff edge’ as they transition from primary to secondary school, but we believe that schools need more external support to provide effective online safety support for their pupils.”
From our survey conducted amongst over 500 primary school leaders, computing leads and teaching staff: • Only 49% feel confident in their knowledge of their children’s internet usage and what services they use.
• Whilst 93% of Primary School teachers are worried that their pupils are at risk using social media, a staggering 77% admitted that their pupils know more about social media than they do.
• 68% said that they struggle to engage parents in online safety.
From our survey conducted amongst 400 parents of children aged 1 to 15: • 58% of parents surveyed said that they had never received online safety training from their child’s school.
• 42% said that their children have better digital skills than they do. • 77% believe it is both theirs and the school’s responsibility to keep their children safe on the internet
So, what can schools do to help keep children safe online and align with the
revised DfE guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ which came into effect on 3rd September 2018?
1. Take a whole school community approach to online safety You can’t do this alone. Every leader, staff member and parent/carer needs to be on board and trained in online safety risks, how to spot them and how they should escalate an online safeguarding issue. This is compulsory.
2. Make online safety lessons fun Children need to be engaged in their online safety lessons and the online topics need to be on trend. Keep up!
3. Provide regularly updated online safety training The online world is changing rapidly and training one day a year is simply not enough to protect children. New threats emerge daily so it's imperative that all school staff are updated as often as the online world develops. Keeping up-to- date with the latest apps and games is imperative as new risks are posed every day.
To help schools bridge the knowledge gap between their ‘trusted adults’
and their children, National Online Safety has developed a whole school community approach to online safety training, offering practical ways for schools to effectively safeguard staff and pupils from the dangers of the online world. The NOS Certified School Community programme has been developed in line with the statutory duties outlined in the revised ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance which came into effect on 3rd September 2018.
uCall 0800 368 8061 or visit
www.nationalonlinesafety.com uVisit National Online Safety at BETT London, 23 - 26 January 2019, stand B115
14
www.education-today.co.uk
Increasing maths success through focused teacher training and increased
student engagement In our second BESA Corner piece this month, we hear from ADAM CAPLAN, CEO at eMathsMaster, who explains how the company’s online learning platform helps specialist and non- specialist practitioners deliver excellent maths lessons, while at the same time building maths proficiency in students.
eMathsMaster’s Dual Solution delivers maths teacher training and student learning for maths covering Key Stage 2 to GCSE and includes 380 video and assessment based interactive online modules. It is used in primary and secondary schools, and also in further education. eMathsMaster Teacher Edition helps maths teachers,
non-maths specialists teaching maths, newly qualified maths teachers and teaching assistants quickly deliver excellent maths lessons. It reduces marking time, and offers a built-in scheme of work, reporting and assessment tools for students to deliver improved results from SATS to GCSE, up to grade 9. The Student Edition is a step by step online maths
learning programme delivering increased engagement for students of all levels and engagement. It’s being used by students from age 8 years up to adult and is covered by the eMathsMaster guarantee, which states that every student will achieve a minimum of a grade 5 GCSE if they complete all 380 modules. eMathsMaster is delivered on our own, proprietary LMS,
The Learning Engine. The pedagogy has been developed and accredited by our teacher training schools partner, The Dean Trust. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, it is secure reliable and fast. eMathsMaster are partnered with Microsoft, HP, The
Premier League and Think IT. We are a proud member of BESA as well.
uFor more information and a demonstration visit
www.emathsmaster.co.uk or contact
adam.caplan@
emathsmaster.co.uk
January 2019
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