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E-Safety - Information for Parents

Keeping Children Safe Online During The Summer Holidays

Please take a look at this information guide about internet safety at a time when your children may be using the internet more than usual.

Keeping Children Safe - Internet Based Christmas Present Guide

As Christmas time approaches, it’s likely that many children and young people will be looking forward to finding technology-based gifts under the tree this year.  This means the festive period is an important time to highlight simple tips that help parents and carers make safer choices when buying new devices. 

The following link will take you to some top tips on how to keep your children safe online - This is aimed at slightly older children but it equally important for all children if they have access to your phones or ipads.



The theme for Safer Internet 2021 is "An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world".
 
Below are some useful websites, most have free resources to support parents, carers and practitioners in making sure children are safe online.
www.saferinternet.org.uk: UK Safer Internet has many free resources to support the age 3-7 age group including a video of "digiduck" who believes what he read on the internet and got his homework wrong- it gives advice on how to check facts.
www.nspcc.org.uk: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children also has resources for safeguarding children online- did you know that Instagram was the most used platform in child grooming crimes during lockdown April-June 2020?
https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre also has useful free resources.
https://www.childnet.com/ Childnet has useful free resources for parents and children.
* https://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/parental-control   Switched On Families and Internet Matters 
 

 

Online safety is a very important matter.

Please take a look at this video and information about this subject and if you have any questions or concerns ask a member off staff. We will be able to answer you or put you in touch with someone who can.

The following links provide very thorough information about child safety online.

 

Smartie the Penguin - An online safety story for 3 to 7 year olds. Join in with Mummy Penguin's song and follow the adventures of Smartie the Penguin as he learns how to be safe on the internet. the first version of the story covers the following 3 themes;

1. Pop ups and in app purchasing 

2. Inappropriate websites for older children

3. Cyberbullying

The second version of the story covers the follwoing 3 themes; 

1. Upsetting images

2. Unreliable information

3. Talking to strangers online

Newtown Nursery School


Hockley Close,

Newtown,

Birmingham,

B19 2NS


Contact Information


Executive Head Teacher: Sharon Lewis

Tel: 0121 675 8876

Email: enquiry@newtownn.bham.sch.uk






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