Bradford school pupils have teamed up with professional film-makers to produce a warning to the next generation of internet users.

Yesterday was national Safer Internet Day and pupils at Carlton Bolling College, in Undercliffe, came up with their own ideas to promote safe surfing online among young users.

A cast and technical team made up of pupils from across the year groups – elected members of the school’s council – worked with film experts from Nottingham-based EdTV.

As part of the two-day exercise, they wrote a script, interviewed their peers and teachers, acted and helped to film scenes. The film portrays a series of unsafe scenarios and advises what precautions users can take to avoid falling victim to internet grooming, phishing -– rogue e-mails that steal the user’s identity – fraud, and computer viruses.

It highlights how easy it is to become a cyberbully, why it should be reported, and why privacy settings are important on social networking websites such as Facebook and Bebo, where young people from the age of 13 can display personal information.

The school intends to present the film to children at local primary schools.

One of the young filmmakers, sixth form student Khaled El Mansoury, 17, said: “When Year Sevens start at secondary school they want to do the same as the older students. But young people are using social networking websites more than ever and some don’t know about internet safety.”

Sanzida Islam, 14, helped write the film script. She said: “There are a lot of chatrooms, the age limit for Facebook is down to 13, so you have to know how to be safe. It’s like being out on the street.”

Assistant head teacher Rebecca Ahmed said: “The message is that you can still have fun online but take control of your experience, know how to recognise risks and report anything that’s not right.”

Primary schools across the district ran activities on ‘e-safety’ on Safer Internet Day.

A survey conducted by Young Poll to coincide with the event shows that the average six to 14-year-old communicates with more than 1,100 people online in a year. Some 26.8 per cent of young people said their parents never talked to them about internet habits.

Schools have a recognised responsibility to safeguard pupils from unsafe internet use under new inspection framework introduced by Ofsted in September. Inspectors judged Carlton Bolling’s e-safety measures to be outstanding when they visited last year.