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Our Safer Internet Team

Our Computing curriculum has online safety threaded throughout and you can find out more about this by visiting our Computing Curriculum Page here:

https://www.riddingsinfantandnursery.co.uk/computing/

Online Safety in school is also supported by our Internet Safety Team which the children in school vote for during the Autumn term each year. With our Computing Coordinator (Miss Kamillo) a team of Year 1 and Year 2 pupils meet regularly to share important information about how to stay safe online.

Autumn Term:

In an Online Safety Assembly we watched this video- https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/4_7/4-5/videos/ - which helped us to re-cap our Acceptable Use Policy and the importance of asking a trusted adult before going online. We also thought about who we could talk to if we felt worried about anything that we experienced online:

We voted for our Safer Internet Team:

The team will meet each term to talk about some of the important aspects of online safety and they will then have chance to share this with the rest of their class too. In our first meeting we talked about who our trusted adults are, thinking about who we can ask for help if we are worried or unsure about something.

Spring Term

This term we celebrated Safer Internet Day in school...

We shared online safety themed stories such as Hashtag Goldilocks and Old Macdonald had a phone which inspired our discussions around the ways we can stay safe in the online world. We also explored Project Evolve Lessons linked to Health and Wellbeing.

In the same week our Key Stage One pupils enjoyed participating in the Into the Screen Workshops using traditional tales to explore online safety skills and rules further.

Being Safe Online:

With technology updating so quickly and becoming so much cheaper, it is fantastic that we now have the world at our fingertips and can learn in new and engaging ways. However, we have to make sure we are using new technology safely and appropriately and that our children are aware of the dangers of chatting online or sharing personal information. As part of both our PSHE and Computing curriculum, we have lots of discussions around using the internet safely. As part of this curriculum we use Project Evolve lessons which you can read more about here:

About ProjectEVOLVE online tool | ProjectEVOLVE

There are also some great stories that we use to encourage discussion around online safety in a child friendly way such as Smartie the Penguin, Penguin Pig and Chicken Clicken.

Resources available for children aged 4-7 can be accessed on the CEOP website. You can access the videos here: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/4_7/

You may also find some of these sites useful to support your child in using technology safely:

www.internetmatters.org

www.commonsensemedia.org

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/share-aware/

The link below also allows you to access a magazine which includes a guide to online safety:

https://parentzone.org.uk/projects/digital-parenting-magazine

We have extensive security measures in place in school, which are monitored both internally and externally, to help safeguard pupils from potential dangers or unsuitable material.

Please come into school if you have any concerns at all and we'd be happy to help where we can.

Filtering and Monitoring in school

At Riddings Infant and Nursery School we comply with the DFE Filtering and Monitoring Standards. We block harmful and inappropriate content without reasonably impacting on the teaching and learning. In line with KCSIE all staff have received Safeguarding and Child Protection training, including Online Safety and understanding of expectations in relation to filtering and monitoring.

We have extensive security measures in place in school, which are monitored both internally and externally, to help safeguard pupils from potential dangers or unsuitable material. More detailed information around filtering and monitoring in our school can be found in our Online Safety policy.

Online Safety for Pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

The NSPCC have some great advice about how to support children to stay safe online. You can read more about this here:

Online wellbeing for children with SEND | NSPCC

Support children with SEND talking to people online | NSPCC

top Tips

· Always ask a grown up before you use the internet. They can help you find the best thing to do.

· Don’t tell strangers where you live, your phone number or where you go to school. Only your friends and family need to know that.

· Don’t send pictures to people you don’t know. You don’t want strangers looking at photos of you, your friends or your family.

· Tell a grown up if you feel scared or unhappy about anything.

· You can also call ‘Childline’ on: 08001111 to talk to someone who can help.

Useful Information for Parents

Click on the links below to access fantastic resources which enable you to check apps and games to see what dangers or warnings there are for them, whether they are age appropriate and how to keep your child safe online.