The safety of children online has never been more important to the pupils and families of our special school. At Upottery Primary School, children are taught about online safety within their computing curriculum in both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 as well as through our school values during collective worship too. Learning about keeping safe online is a life skill and we believe it should be reinforced and practised daily through a consistent message at home and in school.
At Upottery Primary School, we reinforce the message of online safety through standalone online safety lessons and by using every day as an online safety lesson. Online safety is drip-fed through our school values, the modelling of safe behaviours in using the Upottery Primary Google education suite (Google Classroom) and through our PSHE lessons as it is something that we openly talk about regularly with our children. As well as this, we have a whole school approach to participating in national events such as Safer Internet Day and the Internet Legends Schools Conference from Google.
Other links:
We have compiled a list of websites that have some excellent information on how to help keep children safe online:
https://www.internetmatters.org/
https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/
https://www.digitalawarenessuk.com/
Wake Up Wednesdays
Every Wednesday we send home the Wake-Up Wednesday parent guide from the National Online Safety website.
These are quick guides to update you about popular websites, games and apps, giving an overview of the purpose, risks and settings so you can take responsibility and decide whether your child should be accessing these and take action to ensure that you can be confident in your child's online safety.
A sample of the guides can be found below, you can find more on the NOS website and sign up to receive them yourself.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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