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This is a fantastic website for clear and child friendly advice regarding Internet and Social Media use.
Online Safety is an important part of keeping children safe at Sheldwich Primary School. Online Safety is taught to all pupils and our curriculum empowers pupils to understand and be aware how they can stay safe and behave appropriately online but we can only be successful in keeping children safe online if we work with you.
Your help is needed to talk to your children about how they can keep themselves safe and behave appropriately online. It’s important that we are all vigilant when children are using the internet and act to ensure they are protected from people who may pose a risk to them. Children can accidently or deliberately be exposed to illegal, unwanted or unpleasant content, comments or activity online and there are steps you can take at home to minimize this risk.
What can parents/carers do to help children keep safe online?
Ground Rules
Online Safety
Instagram – an online mobile photo sharing, video sharing and social networking service which enables its users to take pictures and videos and share them on a variety of social networking platforms. You are required to be at least 13 years old before you can create an account.
Facebook – a social networking site. You are required to be at least 13 years old before you can create an account.
Whats App – an instant messaging app for smartphones. The user agreement requires users to be age 16 or older.
Listen
Dialogue – keep talking
Remember, the internet is an essential part of young people’s lives and provides them with tremendous opportunities. The vast majority use it without coming to any harm so it’s essential to be realistic: banning the internet or web sites often will not work and it can make a child feel less able to report a problem or concern, so education around safe use is essential.
Websites to visit for more information:
www.thinkuknow.co.uk – Visit the “Parent/Carer” Section and use the “Click CEOP” button to seek advice and report online abuse
www.childnet.com – Visit the ‘Know it All’ Section for an interactive guide about online safety
www.getsafeonline.org – Free up-to-date security advice including using complex passwords and managing hacked accounts
www.internetmatters.org – Information from the four largest internet service providers (BT, Sky, Talk Talk and Virgin)
www.nspcc.org.uk/onlinesafety - NSPCC has linked up with 02 to provide information for parents about popular social media sites, apps and games.
www.saferinternet.org.uk – Parents guides to safety tools on popular devices and signpost report mechanisms for some websites.
http://parentinfo.org/article/the-6-apps-and-services-that-every-parent-should-know-about - Information from CEOP and Parent Zone about the most popular apps for children and young people
www.kent.police.uk/advice/online-safety/ - Guidance from Kent Police
www.kent.gov.uk/esafety - Guidance from Kent County Council
If you are worried that your child is at risk of harm or a criminal offence has been committed then you can report your concerns to the Police or Children’s Social Care. Please do not notify suspicious profiles of your actions, as this could enable them to delete material which might be required for any Police investigations. You can contact Kent Police via 101 or 999 if there is immediate risk or CEOP by visiting www.ceop.police.uk and using the ‘Click CEOP’ reporting button. You can also contact Kent Children’s Social Services on 03000 41 11 11, or email social.services@kent.gov.uk.
The Designated Safeguarding Leads, Ms Gower, Miss Hills and myself, are available to discuss any help you may need or concerns that you may have.
Did you know that you can link the calendar events (on the website) to your personal calendar by subscribing? This means that all the events from the calendar will automatically pull through to your personal calendar, alongside any other existing calendars you may already have. You only have to subscribe once; any changes made will be reflected in your personal calendar.
It takes just a couple of minutes to set up and the you will have all school events and important dates to hand in an instant.
Just visit the calendar on our website:
https://www.sheldwich.kent.sch.uk/diary/grid/2019/05/
You have all been such brilliant attenders this week - Keep it up!
Class 6 - 100%
Class 1 - 99.7%
Class 4 - 99.4%
Class 5 - 98.4%
Class 2 - 98%
Class R - 97.5%
Class 3 - 97.3%
This gives us an average of 98.6% for the week which is excellent :)