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Online Safety Newsletter September 2024
We live in an increasingly online world and whilst it offers amazing opportunities for communication and learning, it can also be a potentially dangerous environment to negotiate. We teach the children about ways of staying safe online from their earliest days in school and we have an Online Safety curriculum that teaches pupils how to stay safe, how to protect themselves from harm and how to take responsibility for their own and others’ safety.
We teach pupils what internet use is acceptable and what is not in accordance with our Online Safety rules and these must be complied with in order for them to gain access to the school ICT systems and the internet.
Online Safety rules are posted in all networked rooms and pupils will be regularly reminded of them and will be taught how to report unsuitable internet content.
We send out a monthly Online Safety newsletter for parents which covers the sorts of programs and internet activity their children will be likely to engage with and we have parent links to National Online Safety, an excellent resource which aims to guide parents through the online world.
The sudden arrival of remote learning during the COVID 19 pandemic has moved more and more pupils online. We use Microsoft Teams as our preferred vehicle for providing learning opportunities to our pupils and have strict guidelines for its safe use.
Please see our Online Safety policy for full details.
Wake Up Wednesday!
As part of our WEPS online safety offer, every Wednesday, we will post a relevant guide to support our school community's knowledge and understanding of how to keep safe online and new things to be aware of.
Top Tips for Encouraging Kindness
Tips for Supporting Children to Manage Conflict Effectively
Top 10 Tips for Supporting Children Going Back to School
Top 10 Tips for Promoting Physical Wellbeing
What Parents and Educators Need to Know About Pop-Up Ads
What Parents and Educators Need to Know About School Avoidance
Top 10 Tips for Encouraging Open Conversations at Home
10 Top Tips for Developing Healthy Sleep Patterns
Top Tips for Supporting Children who are Experiencing Bullying
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Supporting Children with Self-Regulation
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Monkey
12 Top Tips for Children and Young Adults to Enjoy a Tech Free Christmas
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Reddit
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about TikTok
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Social Media and Mental Health
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Setting up Apps, Games and Software
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about HiPal
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about World of Warcraft
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about X
12 Top Tips for Building Cyber Resilience at Home
Encouraging Open Discussions about Digital Lives
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Spotify
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Artificial Intelligence Solutions
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about iPads
Top Tips for Adopting Safe and Healthy Online Habits
Top Tips for Stronger Passwords
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Echo Chambers
What Parents and Carers Need to Know About Fortnite Chapter 4
Managing Device Stress and Anxiety
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Wizz
10 Top Ten Tips for Safely Using Smart Watches
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Telegram
Looking After Your Wellbeing Online
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Influencers
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Anime
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about OmeTV
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about AI Virtual Friends
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Money Muling
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Rumble
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Live Streaming
Top Tips for Setting Boundaries around Gaming
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Whats App - updated information
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Among Us
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about EA Sports FC
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Five Nights at Freddy's
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Microtransactions
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Smart TVs
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Disney+
Top Tips for Managing Screen Time
Online safety Guidance for Parents and Carers
Online Safety newsletters are available by clicking below:
2021-2022
This is a link to a useful PowerPoint on Online Safety from the ITU. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies (ITUs)
Parents and educators | ITU-COP Guidelines (itu-cop-guidelines.com)
Click the links below for Besafe online information
Besafe online - Apps Good / Bad - May 2019
Besafe online - Best Practice - May 2019
Put yourself in control
Make use of the parental controls on your home broadband and any internet-enabled devices. You can find out how at your broadband provider’s website or by visiting internetmatters.org.
Search safely
Use safe search engines such as primaryschoolict.com or kids-search.com. Safe search settings can also be activated on Google and other search engines as well as YouTube.
Agree boundaries
Be clear what your child can and can’t do online – where they can use the internet, how much time they can spend online, the sites they can visit and the type of information they can share.
Explore together
The best way to find out what your child is doing online is to ask them to tell you about it. Put the family computer in a communal area so you can see what sites they’re visiting and share with them. Help your child to understand that some people lie online and not all information is accurate.
Check if it’s suitable
The age ratings that come with games, apps, films and social networks are a good guide to whether they’re suitable for your child. The minimum age limit is 13 years for several social networking sites, including Facebook and Instagram. The age restriction is there to protect children’s personal information under the 1998 The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Learn about it
Use the ESMART rules we use at school:
- keep Every personal detail private and using a nickname where necessary
- keep passwords a Secret
- keep Messages polite and be a good online friend
- Ask before using the internet, playing a new game or downloading files
- be Responsible and only talk to people you know in real life on the internet (some games such as Club Penguin and Moshi Monsters have a social element)
- Tell an adult if you see something that upsets you or you feel unsafe
Useful Parental Guides:
What Parents Need to Know about Roblox
Parent Guide - Social Pressures linked to Likes
Parent Guide - Social Pressure linked to Friends and Followers
Parent Guide - Social Pressure linked to Social Media Influences
Parent Guide - Social Pressures linked to Appearance
Parent Guide - Trolling and Online Abuse
Parent Guide - Tech Related Communication
