E-Safety Information for Parents

Do you know how to help protect your child online?

The Thinkuknow Website   Thinkuknow.co.uk is a site produced by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP). It's purpose is to educate students, parents and teachers about the complex issues of e-safety. The site is split into areas for different age groups, ranging from 5 years to adult. Each age range has different resources specifically targetted towards that age group and gives an insight into all the fun things to do with technology and the potential risks associated.

There is also a Parent and Carer section aimed at those responsible for the care of children. This section gives parents all of the information you need to understand the internet, mobile phones and there associated risks. Click here to visit the Thinkuknow website

E-Safety in School   In Key Stage 3 all students learn about e-safety as a unit of work embedded into the ICT curriculum. These lessons cover the safe use of the internet, including safely setting up and using social networking and gaming accounts, online ettiquette (netiquette), protection of personal information and data storage. They also look at issues of cyberbullying as a form of bullying which is covered in more detail as part of a bullying topic in P.H.S.E.   In Key Stage 4 the emphasis changes slightly and focuses on standard ways of working, physical safety in using equipment and ways to keep safe and protect personal data and information when using ICT. If students select the full ICT OCR course as an option, they also learn about the Legal and Moral issues of ICT.

If you have any concerns about e-safety, in or out of school, please do not hesitate to contact any member of staff about helping to protect your child online.