Safer Internet Day 2014
ComputerXplorers Cotswolds and Wyvern is supporting Safer Internet Day 2014
ComputerXplorers Cotswolds and Wyvern is joining hundreds of other organisations across the UK in celebrating Safer Internet Day and promoting the safe and responsible use of technology.
To celebrate the day, ComputerXplorers Cotswolds and Wyvern will be sending a newsletter out to all of the schools it works with and parents of children who are attending or have attended their after school clubs. The newsletter will have information about Safer Internet Day and hints and tips for parents to help them discuss internet safety with their children and help create a better internet. They will also be highlighting the day in all classes and after school clubs, especially at Hook Norton Primary School, Oxfordshire where children are creating their own websites in an after school club.
Safer Internet Day 2014 is on Tuesday 11th February 2014, with the theme ‘Let’s create a better internet together’, offering the opportunity to focus on both the creative things that children and young people are doing online, as well as the role that we all play in helping to create a better internet.
Fran Greenaway, Director of ComputerXplorers Cotswolds and Wyvern said “We want all children to be safe on the internet and fully support this campaign to create a better internet. We know parents and teachers are concerned and really appreciate any advice.”
Notes to editors
Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre in February of each year to promote the safe and responsible use of online technology and mobile phones for children and young people.
The UK Safer Internet Centre is a partnership of three leading charitable organisations, Childnet International, the South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). These organisations are committed to working to make a safer and better internet. All partners recognise the unparalleled opportunities the internet offers and actively encourage its positive use for social, leisure, economic and educational advancement. The partners all work towards the Childnet target; to make the Internet a great and safe place for children. The UK Safer Internet Centre is online at www.saferinternet.org.uk.
ComputerXplorers Cotswolds and Wyvern provide a range of technology based activities for children aged 5-14 delivered both in school time and at after school clubs in Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire.
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About ComputerXplorers
ComputerXplorers is the leading provider of quality technology education for children from the ages of 3 to 13. The clubs and classes are engaging, educational and fun, and are run in a variety of settings, such as after school clubs, pre-school and nurseries, summer camps and in-curriculum time classes. For pre-school children ComputerXplorers covers everything from podcasting, digital photography programming and robotics to digital microscopes and an introduction to the internet. Primary school children learn programming, digital storytelling, animation, web design, coding, forensic science, video game design, music technology etc. Classes are linked to the new national curriculum inEngland, the Curriculum for Excellence, the national curriculum forWalesand the NCCA curriculum inIreland.
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