Shoeburyness High School is a large secondary school located in Essex, United Kingdom, which has around 1500 pupils aged between 11- 18 and 156 teaching staff. The school is a member of the Southend Excellence Cluster that has access to a wider variety of services, resources and expertise benefiting staff, pupils and parents. While Shoeburyness High School is committed to achieving a high level of academic success, the school also places great importance in the social and emotional wellbeing of students in order to provide the best learning environment.

Some years ago, Shoeburyness High School made the decision to provide each pupil with an email account on their Microsoft Exchange Server in order to further facilitate communication between other students and staff. However, it was important to the school to ensure acceptable use of the system in the same way as the school ensures acceptable behaviour in the classroom. In order to achieve this, the school needed to find a solution that could automatically detect and block emails with appropriate words, to stop both spam emails being received and students from using inappropriate language.

The case study highlights:

Shoeburyness High School’s need to regular the content received by students and teachers to ensure inappropriate words and content was not received or shared

How OPSWAT’s Policy Patrol technology was able to partner with Shoeburyness High School to filter out inappropriate words, whilst automatically notifying staff and warning & restricting abusers

Further benefits Shoeburyness High School received from partnering with OPSWAT’s Policy Patrol technology, such as acting as an early warning system for teachers, alerting them to areas of concern amongst pupils, such as social or emotional problems, drug abuse, bullying and vandalism.