Barley Croft Primary School
Staying safe online
Welcome to a new academic year 2024/25
Staying Safe Online is still as important as ever. This year we will be presenting our termly Staying Safe Online Workshops to parents (please see WeDuc for dates) and every week catch up with the latest news and guides to support you to support your child to stay safe.
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.