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Tips, advice, guides and resources to help keep your child safe online
As a parent or carer you play a key role in helping your child to stay safe online.
You don’t need to be an expert on the internet to help keep your child stay safe online. Advice and resources are here to support you as you support your child to use the internet safely, responsibility and positively. Take a look at the links on the UK Safer Internet Centre for guidelines on how to keep your child safe online- phones, laptops, tablets, smart speakers, games consoles, smart TVs and social media apps are all covered!
Parents and Carers - UK Safer Internet CentreSEND - UK Safer Internet Centre
Social media guides - UK Safer Internet Centre
Reporting Harmful Content
It is very important that all adults and children know how to report any harmful content that they encounter online, and that children feel that they can do so at any time. Please follow the link below should you need to report any content or interactions online that make you or your child feel unsafe. We are always here in school to support you if you need support to do so, or need to talk to someone.Reporting online harm
E-Safety
The digital world opens up many opportunities for our pupils, however it is not without risk. We constantly develop how we support children to stay safe in the digital world. This ranges from -e-safety weeks and one off events. We will try to find useful online resources to support families protect children at home. We will list them below.We also highly recommend National Online Safety to parents and carers. You can get free information downloads from their website (www.nationalonlinesafety.com) or follow them on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube for up to date and regular advice and guidance.
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Each month we send our families our Online Safety Newsletter. These are packed with useful information for parents and carers in how to keep your child safe online.
Often we find children know more than us and in this day and age technology moves so quickly. We find these newsletters really useful and hope you do too.
Information for parents on FreezeNova (Unblocked games), Roblox update and Screen time guidance.
Please see the April edition of the online safety newsletter including parental controls, age ratings in games and protecting your child from fake news and disturbing ideologies.
Advice AI and TikTok and support with good digital parenting. Additional newsletter for Safer Internet Day.
Advice on Roblox and Discord. How to be aware of online exploitation this Christmas.
Whatsapp Advice for Parents in how to model good online behaviour, 'online roasting' cyberbullying, app age ratings and information for parents on CapCut
Key information on You Tube, Whatsapp and Risk of AI on mental health in children.
September issue informs us all about AI for young people.