Barley Croft Primary School
Staying safe online
Autumn Term 2024
Staying Safe Online is as important as ever. Every week catch up with the latest news and guides to support you to support your child to stay safe online by reading our Wake Up Wednesday guides from The National College.
If you have any concerns about what your child may be accessing online, want some advice on how to support them with their online life, or report anything please contact the school.
Thank you to all of you for coming to our Staying Safe Online Parent Workshop on Tuesday 15th October 2024 to learn about the importance of staying safe online and practical ways to do that.
You can view the powerpoint from the workshop by clicking on the link below.
Wednesday 4th December 2024 - This week a free guide about Snapchat about the associated risks and how to safely use the app.
Wednesday 27th November 2024 - This week a free guide on how to protect yourself from Black Friday scams.
Wednesday 20th November 2024 - This week, a free guide on the places where you are most likely to experience a QR code scam and how best to protect yourself.
Wednesday 13th November 2024 - This week - as it is Anti-Bullying Week - a guide on choosing respect.
Wednesday 6th November 2024 - This week a guide on how to use Instagram safely.
Wednesday 30th October 2024 - This week a free guide exploring the online phenomenon of online trolling detailing its risks and letting you know how to safeguard children from this behaviour.
Wednesday 16th October 2024 - This free guide explores the risks of children being exposed to horror films and inappropriate content and how to safeguard against that.
Wednesday 9th October 2024 - This week's guide is about how to create safe, respectful rules in your house for using devices.
Wednesday 2nd October 2024 - This week's guide is about In-Group Chat, please click on the link below
Wednesday 25th September 2024 - this week's guide is about understanding group chats and how to keep your child safe when using them.
Wednesday 18th September 2024 - this week's guide is on how to understand and verify age-appropriate content online
Wednesday 11th September 2024 - this week, a guide to supporting children going back to school
Wednesday September 4th 2024 - this week's Wake Up Wednesday guide is about knowing how to stay safe when using TikTok
The resources below are designed to support parents to help them keep their children safe online. Please download, use, and share them.
The Parents and Carers Resource Sheet offers fantastic practical advice on how to keep your child safe online.
‘Let’s Talk About Life Online’ is a resource of conversation starters to engage your child in a discussion about their online life.
The Family Agreement template is a resource to support you put the agreement in place with your child on how much time they spend online and what they view when they are online.
Online Safety Advice for Parents from NSPCC
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/#
Dear Families,
We know that keeping children safe online is of vital importance to yourself as much as it is to us as a school. Digital technologies have become integral to the lives of us all and especially to children, both within and outside school. All children are entitled to be safe whenever they access the internet and at Barley Croft Primary School we take active steps to embed online safety in our curriculum and children’s learning. We also want to help parents and carers improve their own understanding of online safety, so that they can support their children to use the Internet and digital media in a safe and responsible way.
With that in mind we are going to be sending out each Wednesday, via ParentMail, a weekly online safety newsletter called #WakeUpWednesday which will give you specific information about what to look out for when using a particular aspect of digital technology and how to support children to be safe when using it themselves.
We are pleased to share the news that we recently had a successful safeguarding audit of our school. As a result of the findings from the audit we do kindly request that parents do not use mobile phones on-site when dropping off or picking up their children as this helps to keep all children safe on our school site. Staff may talk to you about this as necessary.