Online Safety

Online and Your Child

What we do

At Marton Primary Academy we are fully committed to the safeguarding of our pupils and Online Safety is of paramount importance. This includes learning about the risks of “cyber-bulling” and disclosing personal information when using electronic means With the ongoing support of you as parents, we aim to educate our children to make the right decisions to keep themselves safe online.  Throughout the year we offer a range of support to parents on the subject of Online Safety through talks, information on our website and general updates. Online Safety is an intrinsic part of our computing lessons and at any time the children access technology.

What can parents and guardians do?

1. Set up parental controls
   You can find out how to set up parental controls through your web provider here.
2. Encourage your child to use ‘Safe Search’ search engines. All the links below have stronger restrictions.
   www.safesearchkids.com
   www.kidsclick.orgThere is also an educational version of YouTube that can be accessed on
   www.youtube.com/education
3. Know and understand which apps your child is using.
   There are always new apps for children to play games and communicate. You can find out important information about the apps such as their privacy settings, the type of content and which age groups they are suitable for.
   www.net-aware.org.uk
   The following information and websites may also offer further support to parents and carers. The NSPCC have teamed up with O2 www.o2.co.uk/help/online-safety  to help keep children safe when they’re using the internet, social networks, apps, games and more.
   nspcc.org.uk/onlinesafety

Here is a selection of useful website for keeping your child safe online:

These posters provide some excellent online safety advice:

eSafety Policy for staff (password protected)