Anson Primary School: NW2-b-Friends

Children are engaging in social networking from a young age, but without the necessary skills to keep themselves safe and protected. With primary school leavers approaching their 12th birthday, many are only a year away from legally accessing Facebook and Bebo. At Anson we decided that if social networking was an inevitability at 13 years of age, it was our duty to help children gain the skills to stay safe when they hit secondary school.

Therefore, securely in our website, we created NW2-b-Friends. Every child in Year 5&6 was given their own profile page. They added photos, information and contact details. They embedded videos and music and they had sole control over who could see their page.

Once this was complete we set about teaching the children the skills to stay safe. We discussed appropriate photography, dangers of sharing personal information, legal issues of copyright and who should be able to see our pages.

The children then edited their pages to make them secure, anonymous and opened them up to only their closest friends. We are proud to say that when children leave Anson they are well equipped and have a solid understanding of how to safely social network.

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