Online Safety
Today’s children are growing up in an increasingly complex world, living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. We want to equip our pupils with the knowledge needed to make the best use of the internet and technology in a safe, considered and respectful way, so they are able to reap the benefits of the online world. Helping our young children get into safe habits from a young age will help them to safe safe as they grow up and begin to navigate the online world for themselves.
Details of our whole school approach towards online safety can be found in Section 12 of our Strategic Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy which is provided below. Our policy is in line with the latest DfE guidance "Teaching online safety in school".
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Online Safety and Filtering and Monitoring Policy | [pdf 156KB] |
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Teaching online safety in school (DfE guidance) | [pdf 883KB] |
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School contacts
Designated Safeguarding Lead, including online safety: Mrs S Kay-Wood
Designated Governor for Safeguarding, including online safety: Mrs H Beales
Please contact us via email to mwis@eastriding.gov.uk or telephone on 01430 873159.
Teaching about online safety at school
We follow the framework from the UK Council for Internet Safety (Education for a Connected World) to promote the development of safe and appropriate long-term behavious. This is built around 8 different aspects of online education:
Teachers plan appropriate activities for each year group around these 8 different aspects which are built upon each year so that children begin to know more and remember more. More detailed information about this can be found in the progression document below.
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ONLINE SAFETY progression grid | [pdf 156KB] |
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What can you do to help your child stay safe online?
Understanding online safety is tricky for all ages, but there is lots of advice to help parents learn about staying safe online as a family. We recommend the following websites below to help you find out more.
Childnet help, advice and resources for parents and carers
Childnet offers some clear advice, including what to do if your child comes to you needing help and where to report specific concerns.
NSPCC guides for parents and carers
Advice for parents to understand the risks and help your child stay safe online such as using connected devices, playing online games and setting up parental controls.
CEOP Education from the national Crime Agency
CEOP offers online safety advice, including a new fun and interactive website for 4-7 year olds, based onthe Jessie & Friends animated series. Perfect for our children!
Where to report online concerns or risks
Grooming or other illegal behaviour
If you want to report someone who is behaving suspiciously online towards a child, you should contact 999 if it is an emergency situation, or otherwise make a report to CEOP, the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre.
Criminal content online
If you see any criminal content online, you should report this to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). Criminal content in the UK includes child sexual abuse images, criminally obscene adult content, as well as non-photographic child sexual abuse images.
Young people under 18 can contact Childline for advice about reporting nude images or videos of themselves which have been shared online. Call 0800 1111 or have a 1 to 1 counsellor chat to them online.
Online content which incites hatred on the grounds of race, religion, disability and sexual orientation or transgender identity, should be reported to True Vision, which tackles all forms of hate crime.True Vision will give you information on content which indicates hatred and how to report it.
Media content inappropriate for children
If you want to make a complaint about an advert, television or radio programme, film, newspaper, magazine, video game or other type of content online of offline, that you think is unsuitable for children, then OFCOM provide information on how to do this.
Getting help/advice
Many popular online services have some really useful help and advice areas, as well as ways to report and block content that is not allowed on the site (eg cyberbullying). You can also set up parental controls and restrict in-app purchases.
Source: Childnet.com