Today, Year 5 were joined by D:side Dave! He was here to talk to us about online safety. To start off our session, he asked the children to guess how old each social media site would be. To start off, we had lots of guesses around 40 years old but quickly realised social media was not that old at all!
We looked at a case study: ‘Alfie is 10 years old. He has just got a phone for his birthday and has opened an Instagram account. He has 450 followers.’
Year 5 discussed how 450 was too many followers as he does not know that many people. Grace said, ‘You should NOT accept people you don’t know!’
‘Alfie has now changed his profile to a private profile.’
The children spoke about how a private profile is a good idea! This means only people you accept can see your profile.
‘Alfie has told his parents his password.’
A sensible choice is to set a password and tell parents just in case they need to use it but not everyone does this. Some Year 5 children have said they will now tell their parents their passwords for their safety!
We ended off our session trying to see how good we were at deciding if an online account was real or fake. Parents, can you tell which account is the real one and which three are fake?
Help at home: Have a discussion with your child about three ways we can be safe with an online social media account.