Safer Internet Day – 11th Feb 2020

The SID theme this year is ‘Safer Internet Day: Together for a better internet’, encouraging everyone to think about identity online, looking at how the internet shapes how we think of ourselves and others.

To celebrate SID at Yavneh College, we ran a lunchtime SID stall and a range of activities in form time during the week, each selected from the huge bank of resources from the SID Centre (www.saferinternetday.org).

Safer Internet Day Stall
The sixth form computing prefects worked with year 10 volunteers and Mrs Alani, to run a lunchtime SID stall. Learners and staff participated in engaging games and activities for a chance to win a prize in the draw. The main attraction was the ‘SID tweet frame’, in which learners and staff could pose with their SID message to complete the phrase ‘let’s create an Internet where everyone is #free to be…’

Year 7 and 8 form time
Learners watched the video from BBC Own it, which is all about owning your online identity and doing the things you love to do online, then designed speech bubbles with emojis or phrases around the them, ‘free to be me’ online.

Year 9 and 10 form time
Learners each completed an online identity snapshot and engaged in discussions on key questions such as impressions and assumptions derived from a user’s online identity.

Year 11 form time
During the session, learners were encouraged to think about how the authenticity of our online accounts is measured on our identities, and whether this has an impact on our ability to curate, adopt and change our identities.