Keeping safe online is really important at Seabridge Primary School
Our online safety sessions reflect the importance of using information systems and electronic communication safely. We aim to keep our children safe online and also when using mobile phones, games consoles and wireless technology. We feel it is important to educate our children on the benefits, risks and responsibilities of using information technology.
All of our pupils must agree to the school's acceptable use policy upon logging on to our computers and parents must sign the agreement in the Home School links book to allow access to the internet in school.
Mr Bennett is our computing and online safety co-ordinator and is happy to help with any problems you may have online.
Online safety at Seabridge Primary School links closely to our behaviour policy, child protection policy and anti bullying policy and is strongly built into our Computing curriculum.
Below is a series of materials and links designed to help keep your children safe on the internet.
For Parents
- The latest advice from Internet Matters on keeping you and your children cyber secure.
- Is your child ready for social media? - Children love to socialise and as they get older, they will want to stay in touch with their friends online. In this article, Think U Know look at how you can help them make those first steps into social media a positive experience.
- Social media scams - Internet Matter have created this guide where you’ll learn more about how social media can influence young people’s spending habits and how to equip them with the skills to recognise social media scams.
- YouTube Supervised Experience - Keep your child safe on YouTube with their suite of filtering and monitoring tools.
- Childnet - Childnet have produced a series of six short videos based on the SMART rules which parents can use to discuss a range of online safety issues with their children.
- Internet Matters - How to deal with social media issues.
- Play, Like, Share: Think U Know's three-episode animation for 8-10 year olds helping them to learn how to spot pressuring and manipulative behaviour online and to stay safe from other risks they might encounter online.
- Vodafone Digital Parenting Magazine: lots of tips for keeping children of all ages safe.
- Which? article outlining the dangers of connected toys.
- NSPCC Social Media and App Checker: Key information on websites and apps your child may be using.
- Internet Matters under 5s: Online safety tips for parents of pre-school children.
- Internet Matters 5-11: Online safety and social media tips for parents of primary school children.
- Think You Know: The “Thinkuknow” website is brought to you by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre. You may have heard our own advert on Signal 1 for this site. There’s a lot of information here for both children and adults – parents even have their own area of the site!
- Get Safe Online: Advice for parents of children of all ages.
- NSPCC Shareaware: Help your child stay safe on social networks, apps and games.
- National Online Safety - Suggested Apps Guide - A guide to age appropriate apps.
- Parent Zone, Parent Guides - Everything you need to know about a range of websites and apps.
- Snapchat, Snapmap settings - How to adjust the tracking settings for Snapchat's Snapmap.
For Children
- BBC Own It: A place to help you own your online life.
- Think You Know: The “Thinkuknow” website is brought to you by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre. You may have heard our own advert on Signal 1 for this site. There’s a lot of information here for both children and adults – parents even have their own area of the site!
- Newsround online safety quiz: Test your knowledge of internet safety with this quiz from CBBC Newsround. There’s also further information if you’re not sure on anything.
- Interland - Be and Internet Legend with Google's fun games about staying safe whilst sharing, playing and communicating online. Interland will help you be: Internet Alert; Internet Secure; Internet Kind and Internet Brave.
