Phone: 020 8858 5497 Email: sao@sherington.greenwich.sch.uk

E-Safety

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E-Safety

At Sherington we take the safeguarding of pupils and staff seriously. We work to ensure that we are helping to create safer environments for pupils, staff and families on-line as well as off.

Enabling pupils to take full advantage of technology and preparing them for the real world whilst providing a safe environment is a tricky balancing act. Locked-down systems that exert total control over what students can access online provides no opportunity for them to learn how to become digitally responsible.

Protecting students means providing a safe learning environment by using appropriate monitoring and filtering to control what pupils can access while at school. But, this only protects them while they are on school premises. Education around e-safety is the only way to ensure that, wherever they are, they know how to stay safe online.

As a learning community, the school works in conjunction with parents to educate and safeguard pupils and families.

Educate:

  • Online behaviour – understanding what constitutes cyber-bullying, how to behave safely and show respect for others
  • Protecting your online reputation – understanding the risks and rewards of sharing personal information online (your digital footprint)
  • Rules and regulations around social networking
  • Understanding the reliability and validity of online information
  • Data security – keeping your personal information safe and being aware of viruses and hacking
  • Knowing what to do if anything bad happens

Parents or children can use the ‘CEOP’ button on the top right corner to report concerns directly to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre who are dedicated to protecting children from harm online and offline.

Parents should also raise any concerns about online safety with the school office.

 


Materials from parent and carer online safety session

Internet Matters Age Guide 0-5s

Internet Matters Age Guide 6-10s

 


Advice and reporting concerns

The links below can help you seek advice and/or report any concerns you have. 

CEOP – https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

Childline – https://www.childline.org.uk/ 

UK Safer Internet Centre – https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/

NSPCC – http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/ 

 


 

Ensuring children understand the potential risks online and providing e-safety education is an on-going and long term process. Safe use of the internet is embedded into our school and computing curriculum (e.g. creating E-Safety websites, presentations and movies) with the aim to help children have an intrinsic understanding of the benefits and risks of the internet. We appreciate that the evolving world of social media and internet gaming is a difficult area for parents and carers to manage. Here are some key tips for helping to monitor content and internet use whether it is the online gaming, a hoax, everyday use or the next potential craze or challenge:

  • Ensure you know what your children can access online
  • Ensure children understand the importance of not giving personal information to anyone they do not know
  • Tell your children no-one has the right to make them do anything they do not want to do
  • Use parental controls to keep children safe

For more information on parental controls and online safety, please see below.

 

Parental Controls:

The link below covers the main free services available from companies such as Norton to UK ISPs as well as the services already built in to most operating systems. It considers and looks at how parents can actually get the most use from these services, for example where they don’t do everything, as well as how they could help to prevent or at least detect cyberbullying.

http://www.choose.net/media/guide/features/parental-controls-broadband-internet-safety.html

Here is also a article looking into the effectiveness of filtering software, that highlights how parents need to be parents online as well as offline.

http://www.choose.net/media/guide/features/parental-control-software-effective-parenting.html. 

 

Other Resources:

*The links below have been provided as a resource for parents and may not be suitable for primary aged children.

Parents Online Safety resources

 

General Online Safety

http://internetmatters.org Great starting point. Lots of practical advice
http://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
https://www.getsafeonline.org/
http://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/hot-topics
http://www.vodafone.com/content/parents.html
http://parentinfo.org/
http://quib.ly/
https://www.pinterest.com/kidsemail1/safe-kids-online/
http://www.net-aware.org.uk/

Online bullying

http://www.bullying.co.uk/
http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/
Anti-bullying top tips:
http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/media/5926/abw2013-parents-10-top-tips.pdf
https://www.kidscape.org.uk/advice/advice-for-parents-and-carers/addressing-online-risk/reporting-cyber-bullying/

Mobile Devices

Set restrictions on an Android device
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/3461359/parental-control-on-android/
Set restrictions on iPad or iPhone
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4213
Vodafone
http://www.vodafone.com/content/parents/howto-guides/vodafone_content_controls.html
http://www.vodafone.com/content/parents/howto-guides/vodafone_guardian_app.html
O2
http://www.o2.co.uk/help/everything-else/digital-family
EE
http://ee.co.uk/our-company/corporate-responsibility/sharing-connectivity/digital-living/keeping-children-safe-online
3
http://support.three.co.uk/srvs/cgi-bin/webisapi.dll?command=new,kb=mobile,ts=mobile,t=article,varset_cat=internetapps,varset_subcat=3582,case=obj(3827),varset_username=Mobile:mobileUser
http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Mobile_Broadband/tablets_and_kids

Online:

Google safety tools:
https://www.google.com/safetycenter/tools/

Set Safety Mode on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMAj5PMzvsk&safe=active

Windows and Mac:

Windows 7 – http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/set-up-family-safety#set-up-family-safety=windows-7
Windows 8 – http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034649/how-to-enable-family-safety-features-in-windows-8.html
Windows 10 – http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/set-up-family-after-upgrade

Mac Computer Safety – http://www.macworld.com/article/1151943/parentalcontrols.html

Xbox Live:

Xbox One Core Family Safety Features:
http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/security/core-family-safety-features

Playstation Network:

Reporting abuse on Playstation network:
https://support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/218