A summer of Net-Detectives.” 16 July 2004
A summer of Net-Detectives.” 16 July 2004
This half of the school summer term has been very busy for Net-Detectives, there have been 11 activities since the end of May. These have involved 249 schools and somewhere in the region of 7,900 students working in 712 teams sending the experts 13,321 messages of which 69% have been answered.
There has been a significant increase in the number of schools new to Net-Detectives taking part and the commitment and enthusiasm of the teachers doing so has been tremendous.
In is also worthy of note that the technology has worked well, and for most of the activities the experts have numbered only four or five, special thanks is due to Brian Smith, Richard Carter and Ellen Rogers who been the backbone of the team.
Net-Detectives key ingredient is that it is a partnership project that bring together community expertise and pupils in school and the partner organisation have made it all possible, among them include Cambridgeshire and Metropolitan police, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue, Ordnance Survey, Environment Agency, Cambridgeshire LEA ICT and PSHE services and most importantly E2BN and
The activities have included car theft, elderly victims of crime, bullying, solvents and alcohol as well as anti-social behaviour to give a few examples. In addition to the Net-Detectives statistics there have been a number of other activities with even more schools as part of Talkingshop a partnership project with Trading Standards Departments on consumer education issues.
"Thank you we enjoyed Net-Detectives and learned a lot" – Sophie, Mary and Ruth
"I think I might like to be a police officer" – Ethan
"We think a lot more people should do this" – Holmes Team
"This was fun, not like work" – Jo and Al
"When can we do this again" – Alex
"I learnt alot during this session Adios new Amigos" - Hateley Heath Primary School
"We had a BRILL day" - William De Yaxley
"We liked doing this on the computer" – Sally, Tara
"This activity gets better each time we do it the pupils are really thinking about the issues." – Cathy Murphy Advisory Teacher, Personal Social and Health Education Cambs. LEA
"This is such a great opportunity to really engage with young people where they are at." – Kevin James Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
"This really gives us a chance to work with so many young people we could never get to see, and in a way that are really comfortable with." – Mark Ryder Warwickshire Trading Standards Officer
"Net-Detectives gives us a really positive way to work with children in schools, especially where we have a large number of schools and a limited number of officers to work with them." – Sgt Sandy Pepper, Metropolitan Police
"Thought it is a bit difficult to share the concept, once teachers get involved with Net-Detectives they love it, it does so much for them and what they have to deliver as well as giving me a chance to let the pupils know about me, my work and how issues impact on them, and the children see it as fun." - PC Simon Thompson, Metropolitan Police, Safer Schools Officer Lambeth