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Online safety

Online safety is extremely important. The school’s internet service is tailored for use by primary school children and provides a secure and safe network.

We ask our children to sign their Acceptable Use Agreement. This is designed to encourage behaviour that will help them stay safe online and become responsible users of IT. We ask parents to go through these agreements with their children, as we believe it is very important for school and parents to be working together on this issue.

You can see the acceptable use agreements for each age group:

Please also see our online safety policy.

Protecting children on social networks

https://www.net-aware.org.uk/This an up-to-date guide from O2 and the NSPCC to the most popular social networks used by children. It includes minimum age requirements and reviews of suitability for children and young people. This document shows minimum age requirements for a selection of the social media apps that your children may be asking to use. For example, the minimum age for Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, Kik, Facebook and Twitter is 13.

For more information on keeping your child safe on Tik Tok, please see this helpful factsheet.

Net Aware Guidance to Parents Regarding Conferencing Apps

The following link provides valuable information for parents regarding their child using conferencing apps for remote learning. The link covers the most popular conferencing apps, including MS Teams, and may be helpful to share with parents:

https://www.net-aware.org.uk/news/keeping-kids-safe-on-conferencing-apps/

Advice on games and parental controls

PEGI age ratings are used to ensure that entertainment content, including games, films, tv shows and mobile apps, is clearly labelled with a minimum age recommendation based on the content they have. These age ratings provide guidance to consumers, parents in particular, to help them decide whether or not to buy a particular product for a child. This link explains what age ratings for games really mean: pegi.info/what-do-the-labels-mean  Please also see a useful document here for parents about the gaming that primary school-aged children are likely to be doing.

The company National Online Safety has published a series of platform guides aimed at parents and schools that advise how to deal with most of the popular social media and gaming platforms that children are using, such as Fortnite, Fifa and Clash of Clans. You can see the resources on their website or follow them on X (formally Twitter).

It is important that any device your child has access to, has parental controls set up. Children are naturally curious and may end up searching for something without your knowledge, and viewing something that upsets them. The NSPCC guide tells you how to set up controls on the most commonly used devices and on search engines.

There is also this useful guide 

Cyberbullying advice

From the Department for Education, advice for parents and carers on dealing with cyberbullying.

Useful links 

www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers is full of award-winning and user-friendly resources for use with and without your children.

Digital five-a-day from the Children’s Commissioner: easy to follow, practical steps for children and parents to achieve a healthy and balanced digital diet

www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents is the site run by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre, part of the police. Again, this is full of engaging and accessible material.

www.getsafeonline.org is a very practical site that aims to provide computer users and small businesses with free, independent user-friendly advice that will allow them to use the internet confidently, safely and securely.

www.digizen.org is run by Childnet to provide information about using social network sites and social media sites creatively and safely, with advice on preventing and responding to cyberbullying.

The NSPCC website contains general advice for parents and younger children on online grooming (and more): https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/ contains information on grooming and online abuse, and suggests ways of discussing these matters with your child in an age-appropriate way.

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