Online Safety
Online safety at home
The following video link is useful for supporting you as parents to understand what you can do to ensure your child stays safe online when using games and apps;
Filtering and Monitoring in school
Our school has filtering and monitoring technologies in place to keep our children and adults safe whilst using the school’s internet connection.
Our school's network meets the government's standards for online filtering and monitoring, which you can view here.
Useful Websites for further information
Below are websites and documents containing further information on keeping your child safe online:
Keeping Under Fives Safe Online: https://www.childnet.com/help-and-advice/keeping-young-children-safe-online/
Thinkuknow is the education programme from NCA-CEOP, a UK organisation which protects children both online and offline.
Cyberaware: https://www.cyberaware.gov.uk/
Online Safety A Toolkit for Early Years Foundation Stage: https://swgfl.org.uk/resources/early-years-toolkit/
Online Safety Resource Centre: https://www.lgfl.net/online-safety/resource-centre?s=2
NSPCC guidance for online safety: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/online-games-helping-children-play-safe/
Ensuring your child remains safe online
If you are suspicious about the behaviour of others online, you can report this to CEOP as well as inappropriate media content, online and offline via Parentport by visiting www.ceop.police.uk.
Criminal content online can also be reported to the IWF. For more information regarding reporting visit Childnet.
Children and Ipads
If you have concerns about your child spending too much time on an I-pad you can use Apple's 'Guided Access' to limit the amount of time your child can play.