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Online Safety

Online safety is part of our wider safeguarding strategy.

It can be hard to know how to talk to your child about online safety. There is a lot of information available for parents, we've listed some sites here that you may find useful.

The Government has published information to help families stay safe online.

Government advice for families about online safety

The NSPCC website offers lots of useful information, from setting up parental controls to advice on online games and video apps: Please click here

Safer Internet offers support to parents who are supporting their children to use the internet safely, responsibility and positively: Please click here

Childnet offers useful advice on the internet generally: Please click here

Think You Know offers advice for parents and carers: Please click here

 

 

Online Safety Concerns Reporting Form

Before making a report, please check out our online safety advice page as there are lots of useful links and tips to help you support the online safety of your children, such as the NSPCC's website here...

Please click here

At school, we specifically encourage all pupils to use social media to:

  • Be nice

  • Only post positive comments and not respond to negative comments

  • Block and report bullying or abusive communication

  • Avoid sharing or commenting on anything they see online if it upsets them, even if they want to say they disagree

  • Talk to a trusted adult if there is anything that they are unsure about, upsets them or that they feel worried about

If you feel there is something that is a persistent issue which you have not been able to help your child resolve, then please let us know so that we can try to help.

Additionally, if you have any wider concerns about new negative online trends and inappropriate content that children may be accessing, you can report it here to help inform our online & safeguarding education at school.

Please note that if images of an inappropriate nature are involved, this should be reported straight to the police.

Online Safety Concern Form

Please click here to complete and submit the form

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