E-Safety

As a school, we place huge importance on keeping children safe online as well as teaching children the skills needed to stay safe online throughout their life. Each half term, a discrete E-Safety lesson is taught to the children as part of our Computing curriculum. We also voice regular reminders to the children about keeping safe online and alerting an adult when they see/hear about something that they don't feel is safe.

We use a system called 'Securly Classroom' in school. Securly Classroom provides cloud-based classroom management, enabling teachers to see student screens in a class session. This helps teachers guide lessons, monitor student progress, and keeps the focus on learning.

Frequent E-Safety guidance is included in our weekly school newsletters to support parents and carers on keeping children safe online. A link to our newsletters page can be found here.

Some helpful tips:

Always be careful when you are using the internet. It can help you to keep in touch with your friends and help your education – but it can also cause harm – to you and to others.

Remember help is always available at school if you are having any problems online.

Don’t be afraid to talk to your teacher or another adult at school.

If you or anyone you know is worried about Child Exploitation, Online Protection or anything related to Internet safety please click the link below which will take you to the CEOP reporting website:

-CEOP - Helpful links to look at with your family

-Think U Know Age 5-7

-Think U Know Age 8-10

-Think U Know Age 11-13

Tips for staying safe online:

• Make sure you keep new online friends strictly online. If someone you don't know asks to be your online friend you must ensure an adult knows about it.

• Know how to use the CEOP Button and how to report it to the CEOP Centre if you are concerned about someone’s online behaviour towards you.