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Frith Manor School

Online Safety

Keeping Children Safe Online in School 

The use of technology is an essential part of all of our lives. At Frith Manor, we take our responsibilities for supporting your child to develop skills in using technology very seriously, and their safety and wellbeing are our utmost priority to us.

Acceptable Use Policies

We ask all children, young people and adults involved in the life of Frith Manor to read and sign an Acceptable Use* Policy (AUP) to outline how we expect them to behave when they are online, and/or using school networks, connections, internet connectivity and devices, cloud platforms and social media (both when on school site and outside of school).

Acceptable Use Policy for Staff/Governors/Volunteers

Acceptable Use Policy for Pupils- KS1

Acceptable Use Policy for Pupils- KS2

Acceptable Use Policy for Pupils - symbols

Acceptable Use Policy for Parents and Carers

Guidance for parents/carers who want to film, photograph or stream school events

Online Filtering System

Children access online websites regularly as part of their learning in school.

As a LGfL (London Grid for Learning) school, we use Webscreen Filtering System to ensure that children do not access harmful and inappropriate websites and content in school. Care is given to not be too restrictive so that teaching and learning is impacted by overblocking or by removing so much risk that pupils do not learn about the risk online they would face at home.

You can find more information about this in our Online Safety Policy. 

Link to Policies page

Advice for Parents 

Parenting children in the digital age can seem daunting. It's never easy to know how to keep our children safe when they aren't with us, and sometimes even when are, if we don't know what's happening in their lives or on their devices! Who are they talking to, what are they doing, are they okay? 

Don't despair though... there is a lot of advice out there that is ever changing to keep up with the fast-paced and ever-changing online world.

Kids Online World

Do you know what apps your child uses? 

Kids Online World reviews a selection of apps that are all free to download: ​some are incredibly popular, some are incredibly dangerous.

Kids Online World

This website will help guide you and your children to stay safe, keep you informed and help you make the best choices with confidence.

ParentSafe

This website provides up-to-date information designed to help parents/carers keep children safe: online & beyond. 

You will find support and advice on safe settings, parental controls and monitoring, apps and games, talking to children about life online, screentime and key topics from bullying to accessing pornography, extremism and gangs, fake news and more.

ParentSafe

Scroll through the page for help or click a button to go straight to a particular topics.

Digital resilience awareness session for Y5 and Y6 parents

On 18th April 2023, Perryn Jasper from Barnet's Safer Community team visited and spoke to Y5 and Y6 about online safety with a particular focus on processing information, critical thinking, manipulation, technology, fake news, propaganda and conspiracy theories.

Perryn delivered a virtual parents' session in the evening to parents. He spoke about gaming, social media platforms, exploitation and grooming, including discussing how to have an open dialogue with your children about their experiences, appropriate sleep patterns, how to identify threats and safer use of apps.

You can find the presentation below: 

child online safety for parents january 2023.pdf

 

Below we have listed a range of websites that offer advice for parents and helpful games/information for children:

Child Net

 Child net provide a range of videos and quizzes for children helping them to understand some important online safety information.

Childnet - Videos and Quizzes

They also provide some helpful information for parents / carers:

Childnet- Information for Parents and Carers

 CEOP

CEOP are the national organisation for online safety and have a wealth of resources for both children and parents/carers:

CEOP

When you see this image:

 

 

 

the link attached to it allows you to report anything you are concerned about to 
https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

Think You Know

CEOP have a partner site for children with games and videos to help them understand online safety: Think you know

Think U Know

NSPCC Share Aware 

The NSPCC website on Online Safety is here:
NSPCC Online Safety

Internet Matters 

Internet Matters

Digital Family Agreement

Drawing up a family agreement helps to make it clear what is allowed...or not when it comes to using digital devices, how much time you can spend on devices, and ground rules like no phones at the table or in the bedroom at night-time.

Having a set of shared expectations will help to reduce arguments and keep everyone safe & healthy.

Digital Family Agreement

Key Documents

 

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