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Online Learning and Safety

With ever advancing and rapidly changing technologies becoming more easily accessible to families and our pupils, it is essential that children are taught how to use these responsibly.

As teachers and parents we are responsible for the safety of our children as they use the internet for many different activities both in and out of school.

At Trinity all pupils are taught about how to stay safe in our ever developing world of technology. Our children learn about online dangers, the importance of logins and secure passwords to protect personal information and in KS2 about social networking skills.

 

We are dedicated at Trinity in preparing our children for the risks involved when using technology, by giving them strategies to use should they be faced with inappropriate material online, within school or at home. We work in partnership with the NSPCC across all Key Stages to deliver information to our pupils, about staying safe online.

Please use the suggested links to heighten awareness of Online Safety with your child at home.

If you would like any help or advice about keeping your child safe online, or would like to know more about our Online Safety Curriculum, please contact Mrs Doherty, our Computing and Online Safety Lead.

 

Useful Links

 

 

Some ideas for keeping your children safe Online

Good communication is key to keeping your children safe on the internet. Treat the internet as if it is your kitchen:

  • You would make it as safe as possible by not leaving boiling pans and sharp knives lying around – do the same online! Reduce the dangers by using Parental controls and filters from your Broadband Provider.
  • Supervise your children when they’re in there because you know there are dangers.
  • Teach your children about what is safe and what isn’t.
  • Trust your children to follow the guidance you have given them and have clear guidelines on what to do if things do go wrong.

Important points to remember

  1. Almost all communication devices can now access the internet including mobile phones and games consoles.
  2. Good communication between you and your children is crucial to keeping them safe. Don’t wait until something bad happens. Reassure your child that they can tell you anything and you won’t get angry with them, whatever they’ve done.
  3. Be curious and ask your children to talk about, or better still, show you, the services/apps/webpages they are using and why they love them. Starting the conversation is key, both to help ensure that children know how to stay safe and respect others online, but also so they turn to you if someone or something online is making them
    feel uncomfortable.

Things to think about

  1. Supervise children’s time on the internet.  Make this easy by placing the computer or device somewhere in the house where you can see what they are doing.
  2. Make sure your children feel confident about telling you if they have accessed something inappropriate by accident.
  3. Set parental locks on operating systems to minimise the risks.
  4. Ask your children about what they are using the computer/device for – find out as much as possible about what they do when they are on the device and make suggestions for more useful ways to spend their time.
  5. If you are concerned about what they are accessing then have a look at the internet history.
  6. Click here to install Hector the Protector on your computer.

 

Here are a wide range of Parental Online Safety  help guides which are published by the National College. 

 

 

 

  1. A Parent's Guide to Age ratings e.g. bbfc & pegi
    pdf
  2. A Parent's Guide to Amazon-alexa
    pdf
  3. A Parent's Guide to Amazon Fire Tablets
    pdf
  4. A Parent's Guide to Amigo
    pdf
  5. A Parent's Guide to Among Us
    pdf
  6. A Parent's Guide to android parental controls
    pdf
  7. A Parent's Guide to Apex Legends
    pdf
  8. A Parent's Guide to app store online safety
    pdf
  9. A Parent's Guide to Artificial Intelligence Solutions
    pdf
  10. A Parent's Guide to Avakin Life
    pdf
  11. A Parent's Guide to call-of-duty
    pdf
  12. A Parent's Guide to Call Of Duty-cold-war
    pdf
  13. A Parent's Guide to Catfishing
    pdf
  14. A Parent's Guide to Chatroulette
    pdf
  15. A Parent's Guide to clubhouse
    pdf
  16. A Parent's Guide to creating family rules for using devices
    pdf
  17. A Parent's Guide to Discord
    pdf
  18. A Parent's Guide to DisneyPlus
    pdf
  19. A Parent's Guide to EA-sports-fc
    pdf
  20. A Parent's Guide to faceapp
    pdf
  21. A Parent's Guide to Facebook
    pdf
  22. A Parent's Guide to Facebook-messenger
    pdf
  23. A Parent's Guide to Fifa 23
    pdf
  24. A Parent's Guide to Five Night's at Freddies
    pdf
  25. A Parent's Guide to Fortnite
    pdf
  26. A Parent's Guide to games consoles
    pdf
  27. A Parent's Guide to Gaming streamers and influencers
    pdf
  28. A Parent's Guide to Group chats
    pdf
  29. A Parent's Guide to hacking
    pdf
  30. A Parent's guide to Home Internet Controls
    pdf
  31. A Parent's Guide to hoop
    pdf
  32. A Parent's Guide to influencers
    pdf
  33. A Parent's Guide to Instagram
    pdf
  34. A Parent's Guide to Like
    pdf
  35. A Parent's Guide to Liveme
    pdf
  36. A Parent's Guide to managing children's devices
    pdf
  37. A Parent's Guide to managing screen time
    pdf
  38. A Parent's Guide to how to manage what your children watch on tv
    pdf
  39. A Parent's Guide to Metaverse
    pdf
  40. A Parent's Guide to Minecraft
    pdf
  41. A Parent's Guide to Money Muling
    pdf
  42. A Parent's Guide to music streaming apps and sites
    pdf
  43. A Parent's Guide to Netflix
    pdf
  44. A Parent's Guide to NGL
    pdf
  45. A Parent's Guide to Nintendo Switch
    pdf
  46. A Parent's Guide to using and reviewing parental controls
    pdf
  47. A Parent's Guide to online safety for under 5s
    pdf
  48. A Parent's Guide to Online Grooming
    pdf
  49. A Parent's Guide to online hoaxes
    pdf
  50. A Parent's Guide to parental controls on ios
    pdf
  51. A Parent's Guide to peer-to-peer p2p sharing
    pdf
  52. A Parent's Guide to Playstation 5
    pdf
  53. A Parent's Guide to phishing
    pdf
  54. A Parent's Guide to PokemonGo
    pdf
  55. A Parent's Guide to Replika
    pdf
  56. A Parent's Guide to Roblox
    pdf
  57. A Parent's Guide to Sadfishing
    pdf
  58. A Parent's Guide to Screengrabs
    pdf
  59. A Parent's Guide to Signal
    pdf
  60. A Parent's Guide to sharing photos online
    pdf
  61. A Parent's Guide to smart tvs
    pdf
  62. A Parent's Guide to Smartwatches
    pdf
  63. A Parent's Guide to Snapchat
    pdf
  64. A Parent's Guide to social pressures linked to friends and followers
    pdf
  65. A Parent's Guide to social pressures linked to social media influencers
    pdf
  66. A Parent's Guide to Squid Game
    pdf
  67. A Parent's Guide to Steam
    pdf
  68. A Parent's Guide to Tellonym
    pdf
  69. A Parent's Guide to Textme
    pdf
  70. A Parent's Guide to Threads
    pdf
  71. A Parent's Guide to Tiktok
    pdf
  72. A Parent's Guide to Township
    pdf
  73. A Parent's Guide to triller
    pdf
  74. A Parent's Guide to tumblr
    pdf
  75. A Parent's Guide to upsetting content
    pdf
  76. A Parent's Guide to virtual private networks or vpns
    pdf
  77. A Parent's Guide to whatsapp
    pdf
  78. A Parent's Guide to w-app
    pdf
  79. A Parent's Guide to wechat
    pdf
  80. A Parent's Guide to wink
    pdf
  81. A Parent's Guide to xbox-one
    pdf
  82. A Parent's Guide to xbox-series-x-s
    pdf
  83. A Parent's Guide to youtube
    pdf
  84. A Parent's Guide to youtube-kids
    pdf