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E Safety
Welcome to our E-Safety Page! On this page, you will find the latest news and guidance related to online and digital safety.
Social Media Age Restrictions
Internet security is a very important issue to all at Preston Primary School – we hope every child has a safe and happy experience whilst using the internet.
Making sure children are accessing age appropriate content is important as part of our role to educate pupils to become responsible internet users. Below is a chart showing the age restrictions placed on different social media app and services.
Online Safety Weblinks
Here are some links to websites that will help with tips and information about keeping your child stay safe online (please click on the icons to be taken to the individual websites):
Join the P.L.A.Y. campaign
Keeping children safe online is very important to us at Preston Primary School. This is why we are encouraging parents and carers to join the P.L.A.Y campaign. This was launched by the UK Interactive Entertainment Association and is designed to help you manage your child’s screen time, game purchases and enable family controls.
This step-by-step guide will show you how to help your child set up their consoles. It will also outline how you can create both a parent and child account on their device to help you keep them safe online.
We have achieved our 360 Safe award!
More information on the 360 Safe Review can be found by having a look at the linked document below:
Latest News (April 2021)
Watching videos is one of the most popular ways for children to use technology. As with all online activity, this comes with potential risks as well as the benefits. ThinkUKnow have put together a useful parents' guide to how to talk to your child about inappropriate content and keeping safe when watching videos.
Their four tips are:
1. Talk to your child about what videos they like to watch online (and watch some together)
2. Look up the age ratings and the minimum age of use for the apps, sites and games your child uses
3. Set up parental controls and filters
4. Use Thinkuknow resources to help you help your child stay safe online
For more detail about these tips, read the full guide at:
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/articles/parents-guide-to-watching-videos-online/
Latest News (March 21)
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Safer Internet Day 2021 Update
Safer Internet Day 2021, on February 9th, was a huge success, with even the Pope tweeting about it!
During Lockdown, we as a school worked on making the internet a safer place for ourselves. The theme this year was based around ‘Fake News’ and ensuring that the content we saw online was accurate and reliable. To further our understanding, we looked at a range of scenarios that we could come across online and had to validate their authenticity. Some of these reports appeared believable but turned out to be false, others were absolutely bonkers! We even looked at a report of aliens landing at our school! After the presentation, we had the opportunity to use a range of games that looked at the exploitation of information on the internet.
Following this, we then created a comic strips to display the reaction chain of absorbing a fake news story. This looked at the emotion behind reading the story, developing a thought pattern/taking action (sharing) and then the mass movement of belief. Children were then asked to consider how their thinking may have an effect on others. Throughout this time, children had the opportunity to watch videos to help them with their storyboard, and how they could combat the reaction chain. This included taking a step back and using the ‘REAL’ checks, which included Real, Evidence, Add(ing it all up) and Looking.
In the UK, the theme for the day focused on reliability. To support this, the UK Safer Internet Centre released a report into children's experiences of misleading content online.
Findings included:
- 48% of 8-17s see misleading content at least once a day
- 62% of 8-17s have had friend requests from people they don’t know.
The full report can be read at:
https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2021/internet-young-people-can-trust-safer-internet-day
Latest News (February 2021)
Be Internet Legends Family Adventure
Be Internet Legends from Google and Parent Zone is designed to support families to become safer and more confident when they are online.
Their newest resource is a three-part animated series about a family of 'Internauts' who go on an adventure, and learn about phishers, cyberbullies, and hackers on the way.
Join in the adventure at:
https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_uk/parents/adventure
Latest News (Jan 21)
Top Tips for Keeping Children Safe During Lockdown
Many children will be spending more time with technology during lockdown, and that can be a source of worry for parents. London Grid for Learning (LGfL) suggest these six top tips for keeping children safe in these circumstances:
- Don’t worry about screen time; aim for screen quality
- Check the safety settings are turned on
- Get your children to show you their apps and games
- Don’t try to hide the news about coronavirus
- Remind them of key online safety principles
- If you aren’t sure, ASK!
For more details about each of these tips, download the full size version of the LGfL poster at:
https://static.lgfl.net/LgflNet/downloads/digisafe/Parent-Top-Tips-Safe-Online-Corona.pdf
Latest News (Dec 2020)
Setting up new devices for children
Many children (and some adults!) will be receiving new devices as gifts this Christmas. To help parents and carers ensure these devices are safe for children to use, Net-aware have released this useful guidance.
It covers laptops, phones, tablets, games consoles and other devices and can be found at: https://www.net-aware.org.uk/news/new-devices
Latest News (Nov 2020)
Ollee - a new app to support children's wellbeing
Parent Zone have launched a new app - Ollee - for 8-11 year olds, funded by BBC Children in Need’s A Million & Me initiative.
Ollee is a 'digital friend' who supports wellbeing by helping children and their families talk about their feelings and difficult topics.
Find Ollee and try it out at: https://app.ollee.org.uk