• 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

Cross-site Meeting Minutes

Annual Summaries

A summary of 2025 – 2026

Orchard Digital Leaders have enjoyed another successful year in 2025–2026, bringing their roles to life and maintaining a strong digital presence at Orchard. Building on the digital leaders of previous years, they continued to strengthen the school’s digital community, promote positive digital citizenship and online safety.

Throughout the year, they carefully monitored the use of iPads and Chromebooks, ensuring that devices were handled responsibly and stored securely. They supported high-quality teaching and learning in Computing by encouraging pupils to use knowledge organisers effectively and by helping to ensure that software and applications were used safely and appropriately. They met several times throughout the year and during these cross-site meetings, they discussed the differences between computer science, digital literacy and information technology, as well as how their respective schools used devices effectively for learning across the curriculum. 

The Digital Leaders played an important role in promoting online safety across the school, sharing key messages with their peers about how to stay safe online. During the spring term, they helped organise, plan and implement an assembly and in-class assignments on Internet Safety Day with the theme of exploring AI safely and responsibly. 

We are incredibly proud of our Orchard Digital Leaders and the positive impact they have had on Computing and online safety throughout the school during the 2025–2026 academic year, and we are keen to further the Digital Leader experience in the coming years with brilliant, new ideas. 

A summary of 2024 – 2025

Orchard Digital Leaders have had a fantastic year in 2024-2025, showing independence, responsibility and pride in their roles. Building on the skills developed in previous years, they continued to grow the school’s digital presence. They carefully monitored the use of iPads and Chromebooks, ensuring devices were used responsibly and stored safely. They helped to maintain a high standard in the teaching and learning of Computing by ensuring that pupils referred to knowledge organisers in their lessons and that apps and software were being used responsibly and effectively. The Digital Leaders also shared important online safety messages with their peers, reinforcing how to stay safe online. During the Autumn term, they helped to host an e-safety coffee morning for parents and worked closely with the Computing Leads to plan and deliver assemblies. They also took part in cross-site meetings with Digital Leaders from Hoxton Garden and Southwold, sharing ideas and best practice and developing their leadership skills further. The Digital Leaders played an integral role in Safer Internet Day 2025, linked to the theme of identifying online scams. We are extremely proud of our Orchard Digital Leaders and the valuable contribution they have made to Computing and online safety across the school during the 2024-2025 school year. 

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.