Educate Awards’ sponsors shortlisted for prestigious award

A pioneering North-West based eSafety scheme and one of the Educate Awards’ sponsors, is shortlisted for a prestigious award.

Schools across Merseyside have been joining the eCadet scheme and it is proving so successful at empowering pupils to keep their friends safe online that it has been shortlisted for a Naace Impact Award.

Naace is an ICT association, a community of educators, technologists and policy makers who share a vision for the role of technology in advancing education. The Naace awards recognises those working in education who use technology to achieve the greatest impact.

Co-Founder and former police sergeant Henry Platten, who was born in Merseyside, said it is great recognition for the hard work being done in local schools.

“The eCadets, aged 3 to 18, are doing an inspiring job in their schools by helping to keep their friends, parents and communities safe online.

To be shortlisted for the Naace Impact Award, after winning the prestigious Nominet Award for ‘Making the Internet a Safer Place’, is a fantastic endorsement for the impact the pupils are making in Merseyside schools and across the rest of England and Wales.”

There are now more than 2,000 eCadets in schools across the UK and as far away as Australia. Each school has a team of pupils who have access to their own eCadet zone site and are set half-termly cross curriculum challenges, which help them share their new eSafety skills across the entire school. They also have the opportunity to collaborate through Bubble, the eCadets 100% safe moderated social platform.

The eCadet scheme is sponsoring the Innovation in Education award, one of the new Educate Award categories for 2015.