Helping your child stay safe online.

In the current digital age, we know that parents want to help keep their children safe online.  The following websites and links have some excellent information and we are always happy to signpost parents to other sources of support.  The links below have some excellent up to date advice on gaming, live streaming etc.

We have also put together some guidance from CEOP; this is the official Police organisation that helps protect children online.  Children can use the CEOP button to report online issues and abuse. 

PEGI Ratings...these are for games and there is lots of advice online about why certain games have a particular rating.  The ask about games website has lots of information and there is a PDF help sheet below. 

This site has lots of free 'Need to know' user guides for Parents.  We have downloaded some of them and these can be found below.

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Online Safety

As a school it is essential that we safeguard children from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material. A comprehensive approach to online safety empowers staff to protect and educate pupils, students, and colleagues in their use of technology and establishes the following mechanisms to identify, intervene in, and escalate any concerns where appropriate.

• Teaching on online safety as part of the PSHE and Computing Curriculum, including use of Report button.
• Use of Project Evolve materials

• Monitored online platform which includes a Safeguarding Whistle
• Ability to monitor staff and pupil website use in school
• Use of CPOMs to share, report and action any concerns
• Information shared with parents via school website

The breadth of issues classified within online safety is considerable, but can be categorised into four areas of risk:

• content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, for example: pornography, fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, anti-Semitism, radicalisation and extremism.

• contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users; for example: peer to peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit them for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes’.

• conduct: personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm; for example, making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography, sharing other explicit images and online bullying; and

• commerce - risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and or financial scams. If we feel pupils, students or staff are at risk, we will report it to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (https://apwg.org/)

We ensure that online safety is a running and interrelated theme when devising and implementing policies and procedures. We will consider how online safety is reflected as required in all relevant policies and embedded across all areas of the curriculum, included in teacher training and within the role and responsibilities of the designated safeguarding lead as well as discussions with parents.