Online Safety
Teaching children about how to be safe online is an important part of our work to safeguard children’s well-being and staff have regular training to ensure their knowledge keeps pace with the ever changing world of technology.
In school, we have filtering and monitoring systems built into our IT system to reduce the risk of children encountering inappropriate content online and to alert school leaders if they do. The children know these systems are in place to help to keep them safe.
We know that in the modern world, children will spend a significant amount of time online and so we want to equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to stay safe and protect their identity. We teach this as part of our computing curriculum and our PSHE curriculum.
We regularly re-visit key messages regarding online safety in our assemblies and invite external visitors into school, such as our local PCSO, to reinforce these messages with children.
For more information about how to keep your child safe online, please take a look at the parent guides below by clicking on the links below:
Information and guidance for parents about how to keep safe online can be found on the following websites:
If you have any further concerns or need support in relation to online safety, please take a look at the websites below:
GDPR
Data Protection: On the 25 May 2018, the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 was replaced by a new law called the GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation 2016). This law governs how we collect, use and share people’s information and provides greater rights to individuals and control over how their information is handled by organisations, including schools.
Under UK data protection requirements, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data. The school complies with this requirement by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to inform individuals about how their personal data will be processed.
The privacy notices explain how the school collects, stores and uses personal data about pupils and their families.