SAFER Internet Day has been marked with a smile by pupils at a Barry primary school.

All Saints C/W primary school, Barry & District News’ February school of the month, saw children, teachers and families take part on Tuesday, February 7.

Year 6 pupils and digital directors greeted parents and grandparents at the school gate.

Deputy head teacher, Aled Williams said: “We thoroughly enjoyed SID 2017 but realise that e-safety has to be delivered and discussed on a regular basis due to its high importance.

"We are fully committed to making our school a digitally safe place to be and to producing responsible and safe users of all digital technologies.

"We are already looking forward to making the internet and even better place during Safer Internet Day 2018.”

The children encouraged the adults to #giveasmile by asking them to design their very own smiley emoji, representing positive uses of the internet.

The digital directors group designed a parental questionnaire which was used to ascertain parental views on e-safety at school and at home.

The digital directors led a whole school assembly which launched SID 2017.

The assembly was opened by the school’s newly elected first minister (LN) and the children delivered an interactive presentation with a clear and important message.

In class, the children took part in a variety of engaging and exciting activities which addressed internet safety issues.

Each year group tweeted their activities throughout the day – proving popular with high profile companies/people such as The UK Safer Internet Centre, Online Safety Cymru and children’s commissioner for Wales, Sally Holland.

Teacher, Gareth Davies ran an e-safety workshop for parents where issues such as PEGI ratings, social media and parental controls were discussed, on Wednesday, February 8.