On this page will be everything our JOSOs are doing to keep us safe online. Our Junior Online Safety Officers were established on 31st October 2022 and work hard to find and share important information with children, teachers and parents to help keep everyone safe online. We do this through assemblies, sending home newsletters and sharing ideas on our display. 

This page is uploaded with our work. 

JOSOs 2024-2025

This area will be filled with what we as JOSOs do this academic year. 

In September, we shared our Powerpoint on how to look after the laptops and the laptop trolley in order to save money and be responsible for our devices. We created a sign in sheet for children to say they believe that the trolley has been tidied correctly after use. This way, we can monitor who needs more support to tidy. 

Miss Houldridge also used the assembly to recruit more JOSOs for this academic year. 

JOSO 2023-2024

This is our second year with JOSOs. Our applications opened on 14th September and the deadline for applying to be  a JOSO is 29th September. 

3 JOSOs from last year are staying on this year as our experts and they have had training with the LSCP on how to continue to develop the JOSO role in school. 

Below is our application powerpoint (that also includes some information on coding week that is taking place next week) and our job list for this year. 

Our JOSOs shared an assembly on Tuesday 6th February to share what Safer Internet Day is and how it is celebrated all over the world. We discussed all the great activities we had done through the day across the school.

This afternoon Hedgehog, Badger and Woodpecker took part in activities for Internet Safety Day. We discussed how our emotions can change quickly when using the internet and to recognise when we need a break from technology.

As today is Safer Internet Day we started this afternoon by talking about what the internet is.
We learned that it is a network of billions of computers which are used to share information.
We read the book 'Chicken Clicking' which highlighted what can happen when we believe everything that is on the internet.
By the end of the afternoon, we all knew to ask our grown-ups before using the internet, and to tell them if we ever see anything that we are not sure about when using it.

For Safer Internet Day the children were thinking about who could help them on the internet, not sharing personal information, being kind and keeping passwords safe.

This afternoon we spent some time discussing and thinking about how we can be safe online as part of Safer Internet Day.

We discussed some different scenarios and shared what we would do in those situations. The children came up with some very safe responses! As part of discussing how we can stay safe, we also spoke about online bullying and how important it is to be kind to others online, as well as to share anything that upsets them with a trusted adult.

To support this learning, we looked at the story 'Digiduck and the Magic Castle' and discussed the story. The children then drew and annotated their trusted adults.

This afternoon we have been learning about how to stay safe online. We discussed what to do if something inappropriate comes up on the screen and who to talk too.

UKS2 looked at how technology has changed in the last twenty years and then had to think about how technology could change in the next twenty years. We looked at the safety implications technology has had (good and bad) as well as what it means for the future.

Tech Free Friday

Friday 12^th July was “Technology-Free Friday” in order to highlight how much we rely on computing/electrical equipment. On the day, all classes were tasked with using as little technology as possible. This included lights, interactive whiteboards, Ipads, laptops, printed worksheets etc. Year 6 children and our JOSOs were on hand to support in the office by passing messages through the school while others monitored the school for any tech breaches.

Over the course of the day, we found some classes needed lights on for safety as it was too dark in the room without them. We also found one teacher had left their laptop on through force of habit!

Throughout the day, teachers came up with creative ways to teach:

• Children in owl made paper planes for science and wrote about Peppa Pig for their independent writing.
• Children in Squirrel did PE, played musical instruments and wrote about Micky Mouse for their independent writing.
• In Rabbit, children completed a mini Olympics and created money safety posters.
• In Robin, children made money safety posters and created puppets for their DT project- but no hot glue could be used!
• Children in Hedgehog were seen on a nature walk and writing a diary entry.
• Children in Woodpecker and Badger completed Maths, English and Reading without any technology (Powerpoints, worksheets, lights) and requested they did this every week as it was so calm!
• Finally, in Fox, Kestrel and Kingfisher, children build scaled models of Parthenons. They used books from the library to research the information then used their maths skills to scale down the measurements and worked with accuracy to build the model. It was tricky without researching facts online or using hot glue but they made some excellent models.

When asking children how they found the day, they said the following:

• “No technology has made the room feel calm!”
• “I wish we could do this more often.”
• “We can now see how much we use technology every day at school- I didn’t think it was that much but it is!”
• “I’m not sure on it because it is very different to a normal school day.”
• “It was relaxing.”
• “Some technology is entertaining so it’s not so fun without the board for games and music.”
• “The no lights and no tech today meant I didn’t get a headache from the brightness and the background noise.”
• Going outside at break felt really bright!”

When asking staff how they found it, they said:

• “Walking around the school, it feels so calm today.”
• “It made us think about how to teach without sheets or a Powerpoint. It was a good challenge.”
• “I’ve never seen so many in the library before school starts!”
• “You don’t realise how much background noise technology makes so it was very quiet in class today.”
• “the children have really enjoyed the day. The monitors took their job very seriously.”

JOSO 2022-2023

JOSO Roles Autumn

JOSO Roles Spring

JOSOs to share online safety ppt: 

JOSO roles Summer 

All JOSOS have the same role this term but for their class.

Complete the pupil voice. Ask your class the questions on the pupil voice sheet and record the answers.

As a pair, write up on a piece of paper or type up on a laptop what your class have learnt in computing this year.

As a pair, write up your top three facts for helping children to keep safe on the internet. This will be for the JOSO newsletter.

Some JOSOS also did this for KS1 classes

In Summer 2, 3 JOSOs were sent on a course to see how we could improve how we use JOSOs in school. They were chosen for their excellent contributions this year and will be kept on in the role next year. We learnt about different missions to complete and we will aim to complete as many as possible next year!

JOSOs were also left to create a ppt that looked at the importance of Computing in the real world. JOSOs researched jobs and planned an assembly to share with the school on how different jobs use a wide range of technology skills. Here is their ppt: