Parent Zone e-Safety and Other PSHE Articles
Online Safety
E-Safety is an important part of keeping children safe at Read St. John’s CE Primary School. We have extensive security measures in place in school, which are monitored both internally and externally, to help safeguard pupils from potential dangers or unsuitable material. Any e-Safety incidents are recorded and managed. E-Safety is taught to all pupils explaining and demonstrating how to stay safe and behave appropriately online.
We can only be successful in keeping children safe online if we work with parents to ensure the e-Safety message is consistent. It is important that parents speak to their children about how they can keep safe and behave appropriately online.
Within school, pupils are taught how to stay safe in our modern digital world.
The person responsible for Online Safety in school is Fran Agar (Headteacher).
If you have any concerns about online safety please contact any member of staff.
Below you will find a range of useful Parent Guides to help you keep your child safe while online.
Additionally, the CEOP website contains some really important information for parents and the Childnet site gives helpful guidance on social networking for parents.
The SaferInternet site also provides advice on setting up parental controls on your home computer.
The Click Clever, Click Safe site has lots of useful information about Cyberbullying.
As parents you can help by:
- Having open discussions about your expectations and how to stay safe online.
- Closely monitoring the sites your children are accessing.
- Limiting the amount of time your allow your child to spend online or using gaming devices.
- Discouraging the use of social network sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat – however, if your child does use social media remind them to only communicate with friends and family (people they know and trust in the real world), and also to ensure that their privacy settings are set high and to make them aware of how to report an incident if they feel uncomfortable.
- Ensuring they do not give out any personal details to people they meet online including on games consoles such as Xbox and PS3.
- Take notice of PEGI ratings – age rating is there for a reason and could mean that your child is being exposed to inappropriate materials if you do not abide by them.
- Check your child’s devices daily to see what they have accessed and who they have connected with