Online Safety for Children
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Online Safety is an important part of keeping you safe at St Paul's Junior 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 Online Safety incidents are recorded and managed in accordance with our Online Safety policy.
Online Safety is taught to all pupils explaining and demonstrating how to stay safe and behave appropriately online.
At home, sometimes children can be given unsupervised access to the Internet. This, potentially, allows them to access all kinds of society (both good and bad) and bring them virtually into their homes.
We can only be successful in keeping children safe online if we work with parents to ensure the Online Safety message is consistent. It is important that parents speak to their children about how they can keep safe and behave appropriately online.
Useful links to explore
There are lots of links to useful Online Safety sites for children. They are great fun to explore, so why not browse through them with your children?
The Thinkuknow website is brought to you by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre.
CEOP (The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) delivers a multi-agency service dedicated to tackling the abuse and exploitation of children in the real and ‘online’ world. Often it is referred to as an online 999. By clicking on the button, young people and parents can get advice on a range of issues such as viruses, hacking and dealing with bullying online.
The Knowitall website offers lots of useful advice for keeping yourselves and your children safe on the Internet.
Stop, Speak Support code helps children tackle cyberbullying.
The code offers simple steps to take positive action in dealing with cases of cyberbullying.
Take the pledge and encourage your child to become a responsible digital citizen and make an impact to stop cyberbullying.
Share Aware. A guide to the latest mobile phones, games consoles and tablets. Created by the UK Safer Internet Centre
Vodafone have produced a Digital Parenting Magazine which informs parents about the various technologies children are accessing today. There is information on social media settings, games console settings, mobile phone controls, jargon busting and many more How to Guides.
Ollee is a digital friend for children aged 8-11, created by Parent Zone and BBC Children in Need’s A Million & Me initiative.
It helps children explore feelings around subjects – like school, family, friends and the world – and supports conversations between children and parents through connected accounts.
We share updates on all online safety issues through Class Dojo as well as information about upcoming parent workshops. Please feel free to contact the school if you have any concerns or issues about your child's online safety.
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