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Here at SRG, we recognise computing and online safety as being very important areas for teaching and learning. We aim to promote an environment where the use of technology is embedded across the curriculum, and where pupils are empowered to make good decisions when online and know how to stay safe.
Mr O’Hara oversees online safety for the school. The governors for Computing/IT and Safeguarding are part of a team monitoring and evaluating the online safety arrangements at school.
In order to empower parents and assist them in keeping their children safe online, we regularly publish Online Safety updates and advice via our school newsletter.
Incidents involving the misuse of technology are rare at SRG, but when they do occur, they are dealt with seriously and robustly by a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
If your child is involved in an online safety incident, please report this to the school. This can be in person to a member of staff, at the school office, or via the telephone.
The image below of the click CEOP button can also be used for reporting purposes; when clicked on, it will link directly to the CEOP website. CEOP (Child Exploitation & Online Protection) are a team of professional child protection advisors who can investigate and help with incidents relating to online safety. CEOP can be contacted in the event of an online safety incident as well as school if needed, and can be particularly useful for reporting incidents during the school holidays.
Parents – keeping informed about how to help your child at home
Having appropriate supervision, parent control settings and checking the age ratings and content of any games, apps or websites, are all part of ensuring that as a parent or carer you are staying informed about how to keep you child safe online.
You can further information about managing specific websites and challenges from LGfL here: https://safeblog.lgfl.net/2018/11/parents-scare-or-prepare/ More information from CEOP: https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/
Below are some links that we feel will be of particular interest for parents and children alike.
Swiggle – Child friendly search engine
In tandem with work completed during e-safety lessons at school, we would like to highlight the age restrictions for various apps to parents to support in decision making at home about the safer use of the internet and technology. Our message to parents and the community:
The minimum age limits for using various apps are detailed below. As you can see, some of the apps are rated 13+ whilst some are 16+. As such, we would strenuously advise all parents that it is very inappropriate for primary school children to be using some of these apps at all. This advice has been supported by CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre). If your child uses an adult’s phone or any mobile device with social media Apps, then please be aware that posts may be open to the public automatically. To prevent this and to keep your child safe from online predators contacting your children, the security settings must be changed manually, so that only friends and contacts can see anything that is posted.
These limits are in place for a reason: to protect children. Please think very carefully before allowing your children to break age restriction rules and access social media platforms. Please back up our online safety curriculum provision at school, by keeping your children safe at home.
