Online Safety
Keeping our children safe online
We ask that children be aware of their own and other's safety and security when using computers, the Internet and other electronic devices. Children are taught how to keep themselves and their friends safe and happy online, and are encouraged to be responsible with personal information.
All children are asked to adhere to an acceptable use policy before using the Internet in school.
Below is also a Parents' Guide to Online Safety.
Here you will find a collection of useful resources to help parents and children with the knowledge they need to understand online dangers and how best to react should an incident arise:
- Parent Zone Guides
- National Online Safety Guides
- Netflix Parental Controls
- Digital Parenting Guide
- Common Sense Media (A parental guide to content in films and TV)
Being safe online is very important, especially when children are using applications that have the facility to interact with others. Please click on the links below to find out some important information about some of the more popular apps that children in our school may use:
- What parents need to know about FIFA
- What parents need to know about Minecraft
- What parents need to know about Roblox
Please note that the following apps, although being used by pupils outside of school, are only appropriate for children over the age of 13:
- What parents need to know about TikTok
- What parents need to know about YouTube
- What parents need to know about YouTube Kids
- What parents need to know about Whatsapp
- What parents need to know about Snapchat
- What parents need to know about Group Chats
- How to keep children safe on YouTube
- British Board of Film Classification (A parental guide to content in films and TV)
- British Board of Film Classification Parents Newsletter sign up form
- Child Exploitation and Online Protection command (for reporting concerns directly to police)
- National Crime Agency's aim to help protect children from online child sexual abuse
- Report Harmful Content (to be used for inappropriate content online)
- Education for a connected world (Government Doc)