Online Safety
"Pupils know how to avoid risks when using the internet and how to have healthy and happy relationships with their friends.'
Ofsted 2023
E-Safety Documents
Online Safety Policy 2024--2027
School guide use images leaflet 2022-2025
Parent/Carer Newsletters
Online safety newsletter summer-24-parents-or-carers.
Online safety newsletter-spring-24-parents-or-carers.
Online safety
Please find step by step parental controls guides to help you set up the right controls and privacy settings on your networks, gadgets, apps, and sites you and your children use to give them a safer online experience.
Please remember this if your child has times using YOUR device independently.
You can set settings on specific devices, apps and on your internet provider. Parental Controls allows you to restrict certain types of websites on all devices connected to your Wi-Fi. There are a range of filters to choose from to block content and usage.
Please use the link and search for your device and internet provider…..
https://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/
Talk to your child about staying safe online and encourage them to talk to you if they come across something worrying.
A really useful guide has been created by SWGfL, Childnet and the Internet Watch Foundation which offers advice, tips and checklists to help parents and carers support children’s online activity and get them off to a good safe start in the online world.
- using devices together
- setting rules for media and technology use at home
- finding the right settings and parental controls
- being a good role model
Tiktok
https://parentzone.org.uk/article/tiktok-everything-you-need-know-about-video-production-app
Staying safe on x-box
https://swgfl.org.uk/magazine/staying-safe-on-xbox-5-in-5/
Staying safe on Playstation
https://swgfl.org.uk/magazine/staying-safe-on-playstation-5-in-5/
- The minimum age to open a Facebook account is 13 years
- Facebook has additional protection and security settings for teenagers (age 13-17).
- Facebook advertisements or apps may have content that is not appropriate for under 13s
- Facebook expects parents of under 13s to show their children how to delete their Facebook account, if they have one
- Facebook expects all users to use their real name and identities. It’s against Facebook terms to lie about your name or age
- Every word, message, image and video you add to Facebook will be there forever unless you take it down
- Facebook expects parents to discuss online safety with their child and to set ground rules
- Every image, including your profile photo, can be copied by others, changed by others and be online forever!
- Facebook games may have different T & C to Facebook and only be suitable for over 18s
- Facebook Timeline is an online representation of your child’s life based on the information they and others added. What does their timeline reveal about them?
- Facebook will remove images that break copyright law or are pornographic but will not remove photos you just don’t like!
- Facebook Places uses GPS, to enable users to share their location in posts. Do you want your child’s online friends to know where they are?
- Facebook has a safety centre specifically for parents.
What are you doing to keep your child and your family safe?
Here are 13 things we can all do today to help ‘Stay Safe’ on Facebook
- Preview your profile to see how it looks to others
- Make sure that you are not a victim of ‘Fraping’. Fraping is someone who is pretending to be you. Have a strong password and logout when not using Facebook
- Check your privacy settings – do you know who can see your phone number or post on your timeline? What about your child’s timeline!
- Turn Facebook chat on and off to control who knows you are online. You can also see your chat history
- Edit the privacy settings of the Apps you use and your Photo albums
- Review posts and photos that you are tagged in before they appear in your profile by editing your ‘timeline and tagging’ settings
- Check before adding content, including photos, that you have the right to do so. Facebook expects you to do this
- Always be nice online, just as you are in the real world. Facebook does not tolerate bullying or harassment
- Report abusive or offensive content that you believe breaks Facebook T & C by using the “Report” at the top right of the comment. Reports are anonymous and you will not be identified
- Check your online friends are friends in the real world. You can easily unfriend or delete a friend – they will not be told
- Create a Facebook group for your family so that you have a private space to keep in touch, share photos and learn about Facebook together
- Read the T & C to make sure you know what Facebook expects from you!
- Visit the Facebook Safety Centre http://www.facebook.com/safety/tools/
