E-Safety
Be Internet Awesome
The use of the internet is designed to improve and enrich learning activities across the curriculum. However, we realise the significance of ensuring that all students, both in and out of school, are responsible and safe users of the Internet and other communication tools. To protect the children's safety, each class will be taught high quality, E-Safety lessons for using the Internet.
At Cordwalles Junior School, we teach children how to be ‘Internet Awesome’. Children are taught fundamental lessons:
Year 3: Share with Care
Year 4: Don’t Fall for Fake
Year 5: Secure Your Secrets / When in Doubt, Talk it Out
Year 6: It’s Cool to be Kind
Have fun as a family with this family adventure! Click here for the link to join the Interland Family.
Share with Care - Year 3
Don't Fall for Fake - Year 4
Secure Your Secrets - Year 5
It's Cool to be Kind - Year 6
When in Doubt, Talk it Out - Year 5
Families
Please help children stay safe online:
- Have the conversation early and often.
- Explore online together.
- Know who your child is talking to online.
- Set rules and agree boundaries.
- Make sure that content is age-appropriate.
- Use parental controls to filter, restrict, monitor or report content.
- Check they know how to use privacy settings and reporting tools.
- Ensure that they know to talk to a trusted adult about anything they have encountered which has made them feel uncomfortable or worried.
Further Parent/Carer guides are linked below.
Activities to do at home:
"Embark on a quest to become a confident explorer of the online world.
Kids can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games."
Be Internet Awesome Activities
"Being Internet Awesome means you’re Smart, Alert, Strong, Kind, and Brave. To teach these values, here are five games that’ll have every member of your family on their way to becoming better digital citizens."
Where can I go for help?
Miss Nicholas is the Computing Lead within the school. You can contact a trusted adult in school if you are concerned about online safety. Please see below for some online safety helplines.
Parent/Carer Guides
Please see below parent guides to popular online games and platforms. All guides are from www.nationalonlinesafety.com. Users of these guides do so at their own discretion. No liabilities are entered into. All guides are correct as of date of release.
Be Internet Awesome
Online Safety Helplines
Safer UK Internet Centre
"Making the internet a great and safe place for children and young people. We help through our Awareness Centre: to provide advice and support to children and young people, parents and carers, schools and the children’s workforce. The Centre also coordinates Safer Internet Day across UK and has a Hotline: an anonymous and safe place to report and remove child sexual abuse imagery and videos, wherever they are found in the world."
Cyber Aware
"Cyber Aware (formerly Cyber Streetwise) aims to drive behaviour change amongst small businesses and individuals, so that they adopt simple secure online behaviours to help protect themselves from cyber criminals: Improve your online security and use a strong, separate password for your email. This is based on expert advice from the National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ."
Thinkuknow
"Find the latest information on the sites you like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what’s good, what’s not and what you can do about it. If you look after young people there’s an area for you too – with resources you can use in the classroom, at home or just to get with it. Most importantly, there’s also a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online."
Get Safe On-line
"Get Safe Online is the UK’s leading source of unbiased information. Funded by several government departments, it provides factual and easy-to-understand information on online safety.
Our website is a unique resource providing practical advice on how to protect yourself, your computer or mobile device and your business against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other problems encountered online."
Internet Matters
"We’re a not-for-profit organisation that has a simple purpose – to help keep children safe in the digital world. We’re passionate about keeping children safe online and are here to help you make the right decisions for you and your family. Whether you’re looking for information for the first time, or an old hand, our website has everything you need to help make your children’s online life fulfilling, fun and above all safe."
NSPCC
"We're working for a safer internet for children. Whether we're campaigning or counselling, we're fighting to protect children from online abuse and helping them recover if they've experienced it."
