Internet Safety Resources

Year 5 and Year 6 learned so much from their sessions with our Police Community Support Officer this week, where he focussed on a wide variety of topics, including online safety. Thank you to all those parents, who joined the after school session. I hope you found it informative.

Please find attached follow up information from our PCSO.

Please can I encourage you to spend time discussing with your child how to stay safe online and adding parent filters/monitoring to your child’s devices.

Following on from safer internet day, we had a number of children worryingly share that they have added strangers onto whatsapp, who they have met on games such a Roblox. This means that children have given out their personal phone numbers to strangers. It is important that children realise that people they meet online are not always who they seem – it is easy to give a fake name, age and gender.

We have completed additional work around this with our Year 3 and 4 children this week and the rest of the school will also have lessons around staying safe online over the next few weeks.

We have given children these key messages

• Never add/befriend anyone online, who you do not know.
• Never give out your full name.
• Never give out your phone number or address online.
• Tell a trusted grown up (parent/teacher etc) if you see or hear anything that worries you online.
• Block and report anyone who worries you.

A reminder of age restrictions:

Whatsapp: age 13

Snapchat: age 13

Facebook: age 13

Youtube: age 18

Instagram: age 13