SHOTTERMILL Junior School marked last week’s global Safer Internet Day by ensuring pupils received expert age-appropriate advice from the Safer Internet Centre.

“The aim of the day was to encourage children to use all technology safely and responsibly, while considering the consequences that their actions had on others,” headteacher Kate Barnes said.

“Throughout the school, the children discussed in their classes about the positive ways they could interact with each other online and how to respond to any negative situations they may come across.

“The children completed different activities during the day. In year three, the children made ’friendship thermometers’ to show kind and unkind actions that could occur online.

“In year four, the children created ’a good online friend’ poster, while years five and six did some drama.

“At the end of the day, there was an assembly to show the work produced and to remind the children of what they had learned.”