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		Honor Roll Riverhead Middle School 1st Quarter Honor Roll Special Student/Internet Program The Riverhead Middle School particpates in the INSAFE program that focuses on internet safety. >More Celebrating Safer Internet Day across the world Almost 40 countries participated in the fourth edition of Safer Internet Day (SID). RMS was one of those schools.The event is organised by European Schoolnet, coordinator of Insafe, the European safer internet network (www.saferinternet.org). Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society and Media is once again patron of Safer Internet Day, as in the past two years. The highlight of the day was a worldwide blogathon, which reached Australia on 6th February and progressed westward through the day to finish up in the USA and Canada. Following the huge success encountered in 2006, this year’s blogathon goes one step further to include the voices of hundreds of youngsters. In the framework of a competition launched in October 2006, more than 200 schools in 25 countries across the globe have been working in pairs, using technology to cross geographical borders, to create internet safety awareness material on one of three themes: e-privacy, netiquette, and power of image. On Safer Internet Day, all of the projects they have produced will be uploaded to the blogathon. There were 4 prize-winning teams in the competition with the blogathon open to well over 100 organisations on this year’s theme, Crossing borders.. To find out more about young people’s use of the internet and mobile phones, Insafe has been collecting data over the past two months through an online survey. Preliminary results will be made available on Safer Internet Day along with a wealth of other information tailored to the needs of not only media but also parents, teachers and youngsters in an online media room specially set up at www.saferinternet.org to mark the event. On Safer Internet Day in the Netherlands, HRH Princess Maxima will be the special guest at an event featuring theatre, music and stories. In Slovenia, young people showcased art projects and a Slovenian national television broadcast featured internet safety clips. Across the globe, hundreds of other events highlighted the growing importance of internet safety in the lives of us all. Further information: European Schoolnet Janice Richardson Tel: +32 790 75 75 info-insafe@eun.org Media room – press kit for journalists Sofia.Aslanidou@eun.org www.saferinternet.org Online survey Alexa.Joyce@eun.org Insafe: www.saferinternet.org National nodes of Insafe: http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/focus.htm Safer Internet Day Blogathon: http://blog.eun.org/SID2007 EU Safer Internet Programme: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/sip/index_en.htm eTwinning (partner in the Safer Internet Day competition for schools): http://www.etwinning.net About European Schoolnet: European Schoolnet is a unique not-for-profit consortium of 28 ministries of education in Europe created in 1997. It provides major European education portals for teaching, learning and collaboration and leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology. About Insafe European Schoolnet coordinates the European Safer Internet network, Insafe, which aims to empower citizens to use the Internet, as well as other information and communication technologies, safely, ethically and effectively. It is funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Information Society and Media and comprises national nodes in 24 countries in Europe. It works in collaboration with three associated nodes, in Argentina, Australia and the USA.