Online Safety

Promoting and raising awareness about online safety is an essential aspect of our school approach to safety. Our school filtering procedures prevents access to inappropriate websites and personal information is not shared out of school. Our online safety teaching also includes the need to stay safe from online bullying and report all inappropriate comments to a parent or teacher.  Updates on new initiatives and concerns will continue to be shared with parents through the school app and on our school website. Children from Reception to Year 6 also use picture books to learn the important message of staying safe whilst online.

Digital Resilience Officers

Within our school we have a team of online safety expert pupils known as Digital Resilience Officers. It is their aim and passion to promote the safe use of the internet. For more information and to view the wide range of missions completed by the team so far, please visit the Digital Resilience page on our website.

Information for Parents

Common Sense Media – This useful website below can help if you want to check how age appropriate an app, film, video game etc is for your child. It also provide parental advice on which parental controls can be added to keep your child safe.

Internet Matters – Most parents will want to reduce the risks to their children, and remembering to set parental controls can reduce the risks to children, and reduce the risk to parents when children accidentally spend online money!   The Internet Matters website explains this quite well. Online safety is not just about protecting children from some of the dangers of the internet – it is also about helping them manage their use of technology and most of the parental controls allow adults to set a maximum time for the use of a device or app.

ThinkUKnow – This website is aimed at children and their parents from the National Crime Agency.  It has lots of useful suggestions and advice on how to report issues.  It also has lots of games and activities including Jessie and Friends for the younger children and Band Runner for the older ones.

LDfL Video – For the youngest children being tricked into sharing pictures can be an issue. LGfL have produced a lovely free video which has some great advice and a very catchy song!

Digiduck Stories – Engaging online safety stories for young children aged 3-7. The Digiduck® collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3 – 7 about online safety.  The collection includes a ebooks, PDFs, a poster and an interactive app. Follow Digiduck® and his pals in these stories of friendship, responsibility and critical thinking online