St. Monica's Catholic Primary School
E-safety
O2 https://www.o2.co.uk/help/online-safety and NSPCC https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/ have put lots of information on their websites to help you enjoy the best of the digital world safely and confdently. If you would prefer to speak to someone you can call the Online Safety Helpline on 0808 800 5002. Lines are open 9am to 7pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 8pm at the weekend and will be free of charge.
NSPCC Net Aware has information about the most commonly used apps by young people. net-aware.org.uk | Uk Safer Internet Centre has further advice and guidance for young people and parents about staying safe online. saferinternet.org |
NSPCC Share Aware has ideas on conversation startersyou can use with your children and advice about staying safe online. nspcc.org.uk/shareaware | NSPCC helpline is open 24 hours a day, ready to give supportand advice to any adult who's worried about a child. |
ThinkuKnow for parents advice for parents about CEOP's ThinkuKnow education programme. |
The internet is a fantastic place overflowing with knowledge, games and communities of people, and just like pupils across the country, the pupils here at St. Monica's spend a great deal of time using the internet within school and at home. This is why it is important pupils learn how to be safe when browsing online and becoming members of online communities.
One way to make browsing the internet safer at home is to use a 'safe search' search engine.
Safe searching
Safe Search Kids is one of the search engines designed for children to use on the internet.
And below is a link to the education version of YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/education
We also encourage parents to set up filtering on their home internet. To learn how to do this for the major providers of internet please follow the following link. Setting up internet filtering and parental controls.
In school, children learn about E-Safety through a scheme of lessons along with assemblies. We also encourage parents/carers to talk to their children about how to behave safety when online, to ensure pupils remain safe when browsing at home.
Our aim is to ensure that our children know to report any inappropriate content, contact or conduct they encounter online to CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) by visiting this page and clicking the report button below.
CEOP also has a great website of information on E-Safety for parents.
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
Other Useful Websites
8 top tips for responding to viral challenges and crazes in schools
https://www.childnet.com/blog/-advice-for-schools-on-responding-to-online-challenges
Advice for professionals on how to respond to any viral challenge,craze or hoax they may come across.
https://www.bbc.com/ownit - Help and advice for children, parents and teachers about keeping safe online.
www.nspcc.org.uk - Very useful site for parents, with information on the risks of modern technology and how to keep children safe
www.parentsprotect.co.uk - This site holds lots of good information for parents.
Parent zone - Experts in digital family life
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