Online Safety
All pupils need to understand how they can help protect themselves online and how to report any incident which has caused them concern. Pupils in KS2 participate in Online-safety assemblies regularly where they are taught about safeguarding personal information, what a stranger is, that cyberbullying is unacceptable and to report anything that does not feel right to a trusted adult. During national internet safety week all classes take part in an assembly and participate in online safety lessons in PSHE. Online safety is taught at the beginning of every computing unit.
All access to the internet is protected by a number of different filters. These filters are designed to prevent accidental or deliberate access to unsuitable materials. In addition, the network administrators can manually add site addresses which are considered to be unacceptable. Pupils are taught that the Internet contains many websites that are useful but that there are also websites that are unpleasant, offensive, not child-friendly or can damage your computer. We expect pupils to make no attempt to access a website that they know to be unsuitable for children and/or containing offensive language, images, games or other media.
Should any inappropriate filtering get through the firewall, our children know that they must report this to their class teacher.
We carry out annual Internet Safety Workshops for pupils, staff, parents and governors.
Internet Safety Workshop for Parents - 3rd March 2025
As part of our commitment to E-safety throughout the school, we held an Internet Safety and Safeguarding Workshop for parents run by Ken Palmer, Safeguarding Co-ordinator on 3rd March 2025. The session covered some of the dangers that children face online and gave parents ideas and ways to keep their children safe.
Parents can visit www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents for further information and advice on supporting your child to be safe online.
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