E-Safety at Saint Dunstan's School
E-Safety Week 2020: Monday 19th October - Friday 23rd October
Safer Internet Day 2021: Tuesday 9th February
What is E-Safety?
E-Safety highlights the importance of educating our children about the benefits, risk and responsibilities of using a wide range of technology both in and out of school.
E-Safety promotes the safeguarding of children and young people in the digital world. It makes sure that children know how to use technology in a safe and positive way.
Protection at School
When in school, your child is protected in many ways.
Each child will bring home a School Internet Acceptable Use Agreement which is talked about in school and should be discussed at home as well. Parents and children then sign the agreement to say that they agree to use the internet safely and appropriately in school. You can download a copy of the KS1 agreement here and the KS2 agreement here.
Protection at Home
Please ensure that your children are using age appropriate games and apps when using the internet at home. A reminder that, in line with age restrictions, no children within our school should be using social media sites. Children under 13 MUST NOT be using social media sites ie Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter.
One way to make browsing the internet safer at home is to use a 'safe search' search engine. Below are links to search engines designed for children to use on the internet.
www.safesearchkids.com
www.askforkids.com
www.kidsclick.org
And below is a link to the education version of YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/education
If you need more help and advice on protecting your child online, please click here to go to our Help and Advice page.
Policies
The latest E-safety & Social Media Policies are available from the Policies section of the school. Please click here to go to our school policies.
As a school, we are working towards our 360 Degree Safe accreditation. More information to follow. 360 Degree Safe
E-Safety highlights the importance of educating our children about the benefits, risk and responsibilities of using a wide range of technology both in and out of school.
E-Safety promotes the safeguarding of children and young people in the digital world. It makes sure that children know how to use technology in a safe and positive way.
Protection at School
When in school, your child is protected in many ways.
- Children are taught about appropriate content during computing lessons
- Internet filtering, managed by Bishop Challoner
- Forensic software on our school ICT network that captures incidents of inappropriate use, all of which are investigated.
- Internet virus and malware protection
Each child will bring home a School Internet Acceptable Use Agreement which is talked about in school and should be discussed at home as well. Parents and children then sign the agreement to say that they agree to use the internet safely and appropriately in school. You can download a copy of the KS1 agreement here and the KS2 agreement here.
Protection at Home
Please ensure that your children are using age appropriate games and apps when using the internet at home. A reminder that, in line with age restrictions, no children within our school should be using social media sites. Children under 13 MUST NOT be using social media sites ie Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter.
One way to make browsing the internet safer at home is to use a 'safe search' search engine. Below are links to search engines designed for children to use on the internet.
www.safesearchkids.com
www.askforkids.com
www.kidsclick.org
And below is a link to the education version of YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/education
If you need more help and advice on protecting your child online, please click here to go to our Help and Advice page.
Policies
The latest E-safety & Social Media Policies are available from the Policies section of the school. Please click here to go to our school policies.
As a school, we are working towards our 360 Degree Safe accreditation. More information to follow. 360 Degree Safe
