Online Safety
Online Safety is an important part of keeping children safe at Rattlesden Cof E Primary Academy. We have security measures in place in school, which are monitored both internally and externally, to help safeguard pupils from potential dangers or unsuitable material.
Any e-Safety incidents are recorded and managed in accordance with the policies within school. Online safety is taught to all pupils, in a variety of ways, explaining and demonstrating how to stay safe and behave appropriately online.
We can only be successful in keeping children safe online if we work with parents to ensure the online safety message is consistent. It is important that parents speak to their children about how they can keep safe and behave appropriately online.
Should you have any concerns regarding your child's use of the internet or mobile phone technology, please do not hesitate to contact either Mrs Ballam or Mrs Jeffery for advice.
It’s essential to be realistic - banning the internet or technology will not work and it often makes a child less likely to report a problem. Education around safe use is essential.
Any e-Safety incidents are recorded and managed in accordance with the policies within school. Online safety is taught to all pupils, in a variety of ways, explaining and demonstrating how to stay safe and behave appropriately online.
We can only be successful in keeping children safe online if we work with parents to ensure the online safety message is consistent. It is important that parents speak to their children about how they can keep safe and behave appropriately online.
Should you have any concerns regarding your child's use of the internet or mobile phone technology, please do not hesitate to contact either Mrs Ballam or Mrs Jeffery for advice.
It’s essential to be realistic - banning the internet or technology will not work and it often makes a child less likely to report a problem. Education around safe use is essential.
Our online safety cadets 2024-2025
Autumn 2024: Our online safety cadets planned and delivered a lesson on the theme of 'stop, close. tell' when you get a pop up appear on your screen.
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Autumn Term 2023
Our online safety cadets spoke with our classes to find out what worried them most online. they then planned a session to deliver. For Cedar and beech, they talked about what to do if something they see online worries them and in oak, they talked about online bullying. |
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Our Summer Term Online Safety Cadet's theme was 'Healthy Screen Time' They spoke to all the classes and delivered an assembly to the whole school about good use of their screens and having a healthy balance between screen and non-screen time. |
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Winners of the online safety cadets 'Be Kind Online' poster competition- well done to Aria and Elisabeth and all our runners up and anyone who took part- they looked fantastic. |
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Leading an online safety KS2 assembly |
Safer Internet Day 2023
On Tuesday 7th February we took part in Safer Internet Day globally. The theme for 2023 was 'Talk About It'. For more information about Safer Internet Day 2023 click here. #SaferInternetDay2023
Our Online Safety Cadets leading Safer Internet lessons
Online Safety Information for Parents
Vodafone have produced a Digital Parenting Magazine which informs parents about the various technologies children are accessing today. There is information on Facebook settings, Xbox360 settings, jargon busting and many more 'How to Guides'. Well worth a read!
Download these 'top tips' on children's screen time and 'guide to managing screen time' and watch this short clip to look out for healthy screen time habits. Being on line is both great fun, a good way to communicate with friends and family and informative but it is important that the amount of screen time and what your child uses it for, is balanced. Click here to find out about healthy, balanced screen time.
The “Thinkuknow” website is brought to you by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre.
Childnet Kidsmart gives you lots of advice on how to stay safe online.
Top tips to keep children safe when gaming
Guides to set controls on online games and social media sites
Social media guides
Social media guides
TikTok Parents Guide
TikTok Guide
Snapchat Guide for Parents
Sharenting Guide
Suffolk safeguarding (e-safety)
Advice on screen time
Setting limits on apps and screen time on iphones and ipdas.
Video guides
Advice_for_parents_on_cyberbullying [pdf 209KB]
NSPCC online safety
Parentzone
Net Aware- information and advice on different games and apps
Dealing with scary online challenges
Talking to your child about the dangers of online grooming
Guide to screen addiction and responsible digital use
Guide to privacy settings for different devices and apps
Please find links below to leaflets from National Online Safety for your information:-
Social pressures linked to appearance
What parents need to know about sadfishing
Search engines
Please note that no search engine is ever 100% safe but below provides some links to some “safer” search engines:
nICE
CBBC
Kids Yahoo
Kiddle
Swiggle
Google offers a safer search option for children searching on the Internet. Click here to read more.
Image searching
Pics4Learning
picsearch
Gaming
When children are accessing games via Xbox LIVE, privacy settings can be set up. To read more, click here
Internet Matters is a new online portal designed for parents to access simple, easy and practical advice about online safety for their children, right through from pre-school to teens. It provides tips on protecting children from online grooming, cyberbullying, privacy and identity theft and inappropriate content. Internet Matters is a not-for profit organisation set up by BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media.
E-safety: Facebook Privacy Settings
E-Safety: Information for Parents
E-safety: IT glossary
E-safety: Set up safe Google searches
Support for online safety issues or reporting harmful content
CEOP (The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) delivers a multi-agency service dedicated to tackling the abuse and exploitation of children in the real and ‘e’ world. Often it is referred to as an online 999. By clicking on the button, young people and parents can get advice on a range of issues such as viruses, hacking and dealing with bullying online.
Internet Watch Foundation
UK Safer Internet Centre
