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Online Safety

Online safety is also known as e-safety and cyber safety

Remember the SMART rules to help you stay safe online

Childnet's SMART Rules for Online Safety are a key part of our school "Charter for Responsible Computer Use" and children are regularly reminded to be SMART when they go online in school - see the PDF below.

charter for computer use for print nov 2024.pdf

It's important that children keep their information private and safe when they go online. See this video from Lego - Captain Safety has some great tips.

Your child has heard (or will hear) about Pantosaurus from the NSPCC - now please meet Techosaurus!

The NSPCC explains: Techosaurus (is) our new friendly dinosaur! We understand that talking about online safety can seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. We have created Techosaurus specifically to make these conversations as easy as possible for you and your child.

Useful information

Online safety newsletters

Online safety documents

Useful links

Not sure where to start? Answer a few questions here for a tailored resource pack from Internet Matters.

Internet Matters provides information and advice to parents, carers and school staff to help children navigate the ever-changing digital landscape. Their help includes parental controls, advice by age, apps and activity and news on the latest developments and trends. There are other organisations - our popular ones are shown below:

Our "go to" organisations in school

For children

For parents and carers

  • Internet Matters helps parents and carers to keep their children safe online with step by step guides to help you set up the right parental controls and privacy settings on networks, gadgets, apps, and sites for a safer online experience
  • UK Safer Internet Centre helps children and young people to have a safe and positive time online. As well as running the annual Safer Internet Day event, they also publish useful tips, guides and resources about online safety, with parents and carers advice here.
  • Parent Zone is a social enterprise - a not-for-profit business that re-invests all profits into their projects. Promoting a healthy and safe digital life to parents and carers, children and professionals, their free services help to build the skills needed to deal with the online world.
  • Be Internet Legends is Parent Zone's online safety adventure for families and has been developed in partnership with Google. It helps parents and carers to keep their families safer online and includes:
    • the Parents' Hub: to help parents and carers to help their children be smarter, safer and happier explorers of the online world
    • Interland, an interactive game for children
    • the Legends Family Adventure, a short animated series by Aardman Animations about a journey to Interland.
  • CEOP (previously Thinkuknow) offers help to parents and children of all ages (click on an age group then the year-by-year age) and is the education programme of the National Crime Agency's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command.
  • Childnet is a non-profit organisation helping to make the internet a great and safe place for children
  • ConnectSafely publishes guides to demystify apps, services and platforms that are popular with kids and teens
  • Better Internet for Kids has advice in a range of languages to help parents and carers guide their children through online safety issues and news.
  • UK mobile networks also offer advice: o2 helps parents and carers make it easy for their kids to confidently explore the world safely, and navigate away from any dangers while Vodafone and the NSPCC help families to live a happy and safe digital life - sign up for a printed copy of their Digital Parenting Magazine.

Cyber bullying & other mental health advice

  • Anti Bullying Alliance offers advice to parents and carers on what to do about the unkind use of digital technology - this can happen 24 hours a day
  • The Cybersmile Foundation is a US nonprofit organisation committed to tackling a wide range of digital abuse, from cyberbullying and body image to catfishing and social media.

Parental Controls and New Device Advice

  • Parental Controls

  • New Device Advice

    • EE's PhoneSmart Licence prepares children for the online world on their new phone, teaching them how to stay safe and be kind online.

Gaming and movies and other media

familygamingdatabase.com - Taming Gaming are here to help parents and guardians navigate the world of gaming, with 3,453 Video Games and 197 Board Games in their database - each one hand-picked, deeply researched and tested with real families.

www.askaboutgames.com/ - supported by video game publishers and retailers in the UK who are keen to ensure their products are enjoyed by suitable audiences - here to help if you have a question about games and age ratings

www.commonsensemedia.org/ - rates movies, TV shows, books, and more so parents and carers can feel good about the entertainment choices they make for their kids

pegi.info - helping parents and carers to make informed decisions when buying video games by providing age classifications for video games in 38 European countries - PEGI considers the age suitability of a game, not the level of difficulty

Reporting harmful content

www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ - report online to a CEOP's Child Protection Advisor

www.inhope.org/EN - reporting images of abuse

www.iwf.org.uk/ - anonymously and confidentially report images

www.reportharmfulcontent.com - helping everyone to report harmful content online

Or click the "Report harmful content" logo at the top left of our website.

Activity sheets on Online Safety At Home

In Spring 2020, ThinkUKnow (from NCA-CEOP, the UK organisation protecting children both online and offline) produced fortnightly activity sheets on "Online Safety At Home" for parents and carers to go through with their children. They are still relevant so we have linked to them below:

For EYFS:

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For KS1:

For KS2:

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