Online safety

 

Parental Guide to Online Safety

Below are four simple steps you can follow to talk to your child about online safety :

1. Talk to your child regularly about what they’re doing online and how to stay safe. Let them know they can come to you or another trusted adult if they’re feeling worried or upset by anything they have seen.

2. Explore your child’s online activities together. Understand why they like playing certain games and make sure they know what they can do to keep themselves safe.

3. Agree your own rules as a family when using sites, apps and games.

4. Manage your technology and use the settings available to keep your child safe.

Please see below more information relating to online safety. There are guides for parents on apps and social media that children tell us they are accessing at home. We will send out more guides with out newsletters. Please be aware of the age restrictions on many of these games are over 7 years old.

We promote online safety throughout our computing curriculum in school and reminders when using computers and the internet.

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Parent-Guide-to-Gaming

Pokemon Go

Rocket League

Minecraft

Roblox-guide

Fortnite-Parents-Guide

Youtube-Parents-Guide

If you would like some advice on how to keep you child safe online please see:

NSPCC Online Safety

Internet matters.org

CEOP: Child Exploitation and Online Protection