Online Safety

Online safety

The school ensures that all children are safeguarded when using the internet through appropriate technical systems which are regularly tested and reviewed. Moreover, children are taught how to keep themselves safe whilst online in assemblies and within the curriculum.

Further advice and support for parents is offered throughout the year in the weekly newsletter and through parent workshops. This information is informed through NSPCC and CEOP guidance. To report online abuse or if you are worried about how someone has been communicating online, please click on the button below to link directly to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command (CEOP).The CEOP telephone number is: 0870 000 3344

Below are some helpful discussion points about staying safe online:

  • Strangers – you would not talk to them on the street or invite them into your house, the internet is the same!
  • Never give out personal information to anyone on the internet. Always ask an adult before you share any personal details.
  • Never send pictures of yourself or family/friends to strangers and never upload these to public sites.
  • Keep all passwords safe and do not share these.
  • If a conversation makes you feel unsure about the content – alert a parent or guardian, or an adult at school.

It is important to remember that there is a minimum age in which children can access social media websites and apps.

Reporting Harmful Content 

The Reporting Harmful Content website shows how to report threats, harassment and bullying, self-harm and suicide content, online abuse, violent content, unwanted sexual advances and pornographic content for a wide variety of Apps. the links take users to the App’s own reporting system but if anything harmful has not been taken down after 48 hours of reporting, then a report can be submitted to the Report Harmful Content website using screenshots.

Click on this link to go to the Report Harmful Content website