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Digital Leaders

The Digital Leaders are responsible for:

  • Completing training on how to stay safe online
  • Running assemblies and parent workshops
  • Meeting each half term to discuss key issues
  • Creating promotional material such as leaflets and posters

Our Digital leaders

Cross-Site Meeting Minutes

Annual Summaries

A summary of 2023 – 2024

Orchard Digital Leaders have enthusiastically fulfilled their responsibilities in 2024. In their role as Digital Leaders, they had been meticulously tracking the usage of devices such as iPads and Chromebooks, ensuring their proper and secure storage within each classroom. In addition, Digital Leaders have been responsible for delivering key safety messages to their peers, reinforcing the importance of how to stay safe online. They also helped to host an e-safety coffee morning for parents in the Autumn term and the Year 5 and 6 Digital Leaders were actively involved in planning and delivering the assemblies with the Computing Leads. Finally, they played an integral part in Safer Internet Day 2024, which celebrated the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. Their assembly presentations, which were delivered to all-year groups, focused on:

  • Young people’s perspective on new and emerging technology
  • Using the internet to make change for the better
  • The changes young people want to see online
  • The things that can influence and change the way young people think, feel and act online and offline

A summary of 2022 – 2023

The Digital Leaders had diligently fulfilled their responsibilities over the year. They had been meticulously tracking the usage of devices such as iPads and Chromebooks, ensuring their proper and secure storage within each classroom. Over the year, they held informative assemblies to deliver essential online safety messages to their peers, reinforcing the importance of staying safe online. For the Safer Internet Day theme of ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’, their assembly presentations were delivered to all-year groups with a focus on how to be safe and respectful while online gaming. The Year 5 and 6 Digital Leaders were actively involved in planning and delivering the assemblies with the ICT Leads. Through creative brainstorming, they successfully put together an online safety video tips video which can be viewed by clicking here.

A summary of 2021 – 2022

The Digital Leaders held many cross-site meetings, joining their Digital Leader peers from our partnership schools, Southwold and Hoxton Garden. During these meetings, they gathered information and engaged in lively conversations about their perceptions of computing, explored ways to enhance the ICT curriculum throughout the school, and collaboratively brainstormed strategies to promote the upcoming Safer Internet Day. They also proudly acted as IT role models, demonstrating their newly learnt skills from the previous terms’ ICT lessons, showcasing their diverse talents across various iPad apps.

  • 1 October 2024

    Pupil Voice Fayre 2024

    Pupil Voice Fayre 2024

    Our Pupil Voice Fayre was buzzing with excitement as KS1 and KS2 shared which roles they want to apply for and why. Huge thank you to our subject leaders for…

    1 October 2024
    Fabiha Sultana

  • 7 December 2023

    Cross Site Digital Leaders Meeting

    Cross Site Digital Leaders Meeting

    Hoxton Garden hosted our first cross site Digital Leaders meeting. Pupils shared their thoughts and ideas for the year ahead, including Safer Internet Day. They also brainstormed a collaborative project…

    7 December 2023
    Fabiha Sultana

  • 29 November 2023

    Digital Leaders Build Microbits

    Digital Leaders Build Microbits

    Our Digital Leaders have got to grips with their microbits as part of their exciting project. In the next few weeks they will be learning how to code their mini…

    29 November 2023
    Fabiha Sultana

  • 29 November 2023

    Meet Our Digital Leaders

    Meet Our Digital Leaders

    Our 2023/24 Digital Leaders have been selected and have received their badges! They had their first meeting where they discussed their responsibilities and the importance of ESafety.

    29 November 2023
    Fabiha Sultana

  • 22 May 2023

    KS2 3D Printing Project

    KS2 3D Printing Project

    Our KS2 children have been busy designing their very own 3D projects using a program called SketchUp. This video shows weeks of hard work being brought to life in a…

    22 May 2023
    jbrowne

  • 3 March 2023

    Online Safety Video

    Online Safety Video

    The Digital Leaders across all three schools enjoyed their cross-site meeting this term. They shared all their IT knowledge and advice and will be creating an E-safety video which will…

    3 March 2023
    Fabiha Sultana

  • 23 February 2022

    Digital Leaders Deliver an Online Safety Assembly

    Digital Leaders Deliver an Online Safety Assembly

    The Digital Leaders from years 5 and 6 helped to create and deliver an assembly to their year groups on Safer Internet Day. The Digital Leaders were actively involved in…

    23 February 2022
    jbrowne

  • 19 January 2022

    Digital Leaders Meeting

    Digital Leaders Meeting

    Digital leaders had their second cross site meeting this week in order to look at essential work they have been doing to support ICT and online safety across the school.…

    19 January 2022
    jbrowne

  • 17 January 2022

    Year 5 Incorporate ICT into PSHCE

    Year 5 Incorporate ICT into PSHCE

    Year 5 have been applying their ICT skills in PSHCE lessons by using Google slides to create presentations on what they aspire to be when they grow up. After completing…

    17 January 2022
    jbrowne

  • 17 January 2022

    Composing Music With Year 6

    Composing Music With Year 6

    Year 6 have been using the app Garageband to start composing their own songs. To do this, they've been choosing a drum loop and recording a chord sequence. They're very…

    17 January 2022
    jbrowne

  • 8 May 2021

    Year 2 Purple Mash

    Year 2 Purple Mash

    In ICT, Year 2 have been creating their own branching database about minibeasts, The children worked in pairs, using their growing knowledge to ask questions such as, Does it have…

    8 May 2021
    rdavie

  • 22 November 2020

    Sketch Up in Year 5

    Sketch Up in Year 5

    Year 5 are creating Tudor style houses using Sketch Up. They used the rectangle and push/pull tools to created pitched roofs and larger upper storey floors in the historical style.…

    22 November 2020
    rdavie

  • 19 July 2020

    From Scratch!

    From Scratch!

    This term our Year 4 pupils have been leaning to code on scratch. They have developed their understanding of how variables work and explored how to make characters change costumes.…

    19 July 2020
    rdavie

  • 28 April 2020

    Families’ Week

    Families’ Week

    This week is Families’ Week at Orchard, an opportunity to celebrate the diversity both in our school community and modern society! How will you be celebrating? #familytime @stonewalluk  

    28 April 2020
    rdavie

  • 15 March 2020

    Digital Leader Safety Focus

    Digital Leader Safety Focus

    This term the digital leaders have been busy raising the profile of e-safety. They have designed and written a new information booklet for the school office that is full of…

    15 March 2020
    rdavie

  • 2 February 2020

    Digital Leaders Stay Safe Campaign

    Digital Leaders Stay Safe Campaign

    This week our digital leaders presented to the whole school about the importance of staying safe online. They covered what to do to stay safe and how to recognise online…

    2 February 2020
    rdavie

  • 19 January 2020

    Y6 Music Production

    Y6 Music Production

    This week Year 6 started their new music production unit of work. They are developing their understanding of music production software by using pre-recorded loops with a view to creating…

    19 January 2020
    rdavie

  • 22 September 2019

    Digital Leaders

    Digital Leaders

    Digital Leaders from Orchard, Southwold and Hoxton Gardens, conducted their first cross-site meeting this week. The children discussed what being a Digital Leader means, their roles and responsibilities and plans for…

    22 September 2019
    rdavie

  • 22 September 2019

    Pupil Voice Fayre

    Pupil Voice Fayre

    This week Orchard hosted the annual pupil voice fair to explore the responsibilities children might like to lead on this academic year. Children visited different stalls in the hall to talk…

    22 September 2019
    rdavie

  • 12 May 2019

    SMART Leaders

    SMART Leaders

    Our Digital Leaders have created a SMART poster for KS2 classes reminding children how to stay safe online. Check it out on our Digital Leaders page!  #esafety #safeonline #rightsand responsibilities…

    12 May 2019
    rdavie

  • 8 March 2019

    Safer Internet Day

    Safer Internet Day

    Well done to our Digital Leaders who participated in the Safer Internet Day. They are at the top of the national leaderboard, thanks to completing their training and for earning…

    8 March 2019
    rdavie

  • 7 February 2019

    Cross Site Digital Leader Meeting

    Cross Site Digital Leader Meeting

    The children met Amy and Phoebe, education officers from Childnet, to plan interactive activities for Safer Internet Day (5th February) related to the very current issue of consent online. The…

    7 February 2019
    rdavie

  • 27 January 2019

    Stay SMART online!

    Stay SMART online!

    Our Digital leaders delivered a powerful message to parents about the importance of eSafety in our coffee morning. They spoke about the importance of staying SMART online.

    27 January 2019
    rdavie

  • 14 October 2018

    Digital Leaders

    Digital Leaders

    Our Digital Leaders have now been successfully recruited for 2018 - 2019. They are undertaking their training ready to start their new responsibilities next half term!

    14 October 2018
    rdavie