Anti-Bullying Week 2013 Be Positive and Keep Safe in Cyberspace

1. Anti-Bullying Week 2013 Be Positive and Keep Safe in Cyberspace

2. What are young people doing on the internet that’s positive? • Socialising • Chatting • Learning • Reading • Creating • Sharing • Making music • Having fun

3. What are young people doing on the internet that’s negative? • Exposing personal information • Seeing bad content • Creating bad/unsafe pictures or content • Excluding • Arguing • Showing off • Joining in or ignoring unkind behaviours • Cyberbullying

4. What is cyberbullying?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XgLqTfM-1I

5. What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is the use of the internet or mobile phones to upset or hurt someone else

6. Think about how your behaviour will affect other people • Think about whether the information you are putting online is “safe”

7. Internet Quiz How much do you know about being positive and staying safe?

8. It’s ok to pass on a cyberbullying message or photo because you weren’t responsible for creating it TRUE False

9. You are as much to blame if you pass on a message or photo • Don’t forward it • Don’t laugh at it • Don’t join in False

10. Cyberbullying isn’t against the law so it isn’t that serious TRUE False

11. Cyberbullying can break the law • Protection from Harassment Act 1997 • Communications Act 2003 • Malicious Communications Act 1988 • Public Order Act 1986 • Computer Misuse Act 1990 False

12. Cyberbullying can break the law • An 18 year old girl from Worcestershire was sentenced to 3 months in a young offender institution for posting death threats on Facebooko • Sending sexual photos on your phone or computer is a criminal offence

13. You should never reply to a cyberbullying message TRUE False

14. Don’t reply or retaliate You should print or save the evidence and show it to an adult you trust TRUE

15. What percentage of young people didn’t tell anyone when they were cyberbullied? (Oxon Cybersurvey 2010)

16. Always tell an adult you trust even if you were partly to blame 50%

17. You can trust everyone and everything on the internet TRUE False

18. People aren’t always who they say they are • Some websites contain inaccurate and harmful information False

19. What percentage of young people had received a message from a stranger asking them to meet up? (Oxon Cybersurvey 2010)

20. 12% Use the CEOP abuse button Tell an adult you trust or phone Child Line 0800 1111

21. Report Abuse Has someone acted inappropriately towards you online? It may be sexual chat, being asked to do something that makes you feel uncomfortable or someone being insistent on meeting up Use the CEOP abuse button tell an adult you trust or phone Child Line 0800 1111

22. Stay Safe in Cyberspace • Respect others • Treat passwords with care • Don’t reply or retaliate • Save evidence • Block or delete contacts • Report Abuse • Don’t keep it to yourself – tell an adult you trust

23. Remember if you make a mistake its not too late to tell someone and sort it out

24. Be positive in cyberspace What could you do to make the internet a better place? • Be friendly • Don’t join in • Don’t be a Bystander • Help a friend • Report abuse • What else?

25. Individual poster competition in 3 age categories – individual prizes! • Group multi-media competition – win £100 for your school/setting to spend on an Anti-Bullying Project • Closing Date Friday 20th December 2013

26. Assembly/large group session for 9 - 11 age group This activity was created by Jeremy Day and Jo Brown of Oxfordshire County Council Youth Engagement and Opportunities for Anti-Bullying week 2013 with the support of the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board and may be freely used and reproduced with attribution