Lisle Marsden
Church of England
Primary Academy
E Safety Policy
Effective Date: 01/04/2017
Review Date: 01/04/2018
This procedure is non-contractual and can be amended by the academy
at any time
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Philosophy
Aims & Objectives
Roles and Responsibilities
Technology
The Safe use of Digital Resources
Expected conduct and incident management
Training and Curriculum
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1. Philosophy
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Lisle Marsden Church of England Primary Academy’s Mission Statement is
“Nurturing the potential and talent of all, through creative and memorable
learning, underpinned by the message and teaching of Christ”. This policy has
been prepared in the spirit of the school Mission Statement and Aims. These
are made clear in the School Prospectus, School Website, School Improvement
Plan and associated documentation. They are also made explicit in the foyer of
the school itself.
2. Aims & objectives
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Today’s children are citizens of a digital world. In their daily lives the use of
the internet and digital technologies represent a seamless extension of the
physical world. Technology, existing, emergent and future, will have a huge
impact on the lives of children. This offers us a challenge. We can no longer
consider the well-being of children without considering their relationship to
technology. We can no longer safeguard them without addressing the
dangers presented by a digital environment.
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Safeguarding is a serious matter; at Lisle Marsden we use technology and the
internet extensively across all areas of the curriculum. Online safeguarding,
known as e-safety, is an area that is constantly evolving and as such this
policy will be reviewed on an annual basis or in response to an e- safety
incident, whichever is sooner.
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As an academy we will ensure the requirement to empower the whole school
community with the knowledge to stay safe and risk free is met and ensure
risks are identified, assessed and mitigated (where possible) in order to
reduce foreseeability of harm to the pupil or liability to the school.
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This will be achieved by:
 Identifying a designated E Safety co-ordinator, Mrs J. Scotter, and in
the instance of her absence Mr. S. Dodsworth/ Mr. D. Kinsey
 Ensuring we have a nominated governor responsible for E Safety–Mr
J Woolner.
 Making sure ALL members of staff (including temporary, supply staff
and volunteers) and governing body are aware of the designated
person responsible for E Safety
 Making sure all members of staff; have appropriate training, are
regularly updated, and are aware of their responsibilities in ensuring
the safety of pupils in a digital environment
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3: Roles and Responsibilities
As an academy we wish to:
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provide a secure and safe environment for children, whether in a classroom,
playground, or on-line
be able to identify children at risk, and work with them to reduce their
exposure to risk
work with their learners to raise the profile of e-safety, and promote e-safe
activities – both with their learners and themselves
work with other professionals and support agencies to provide co-ordinated
responses to issues and problems identified
have systems and procedures in place that deal with issues appropriately and
quickly
be aware of our responsibilities both individually and as a community for the
safety of the children in our care, and to provide suitable training and support
to enable them to meet their obligations
Governing Body
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The governing body is accountable for ensuring that our academy has
effective policies and procedures in place, as such they will:
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Review this policy regularly or in response to any e-safety incident to
ensure that the policy is up to date,
 Ensure the policy covers all aspects of technology use within the
academy
 To ensure e-safety incidents are appropriately dealt with
 Ensure the policy is effective in managing those incidents.
 Appoint one governor to have overall responsibility for the
governance of e-safety at the school who will:
Keep up to date with emerging risks and threats through technology use.
Receive regular updates from the E Safety coordinator/ Headteacher with
regards to training, identified risks and any e safety issues
Headteacher
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The Headteacher has overall responsibility for e-safety within our school. The
day-to-day management of this is delegated to the e safety coordinator
The Headteacher will ensure that:
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E-Safety training throughout the school is planned and up to date and
appropriate to the recipient, i.e. students, all staff, senior leadership team and
governing body, parents.
The designated e-Safety coordinator has had appropriate CPD in order to
undertake the day to day duties.
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All e-safety incidents are dealt with promptly and appropriately.
E-Safety Coordinator
The e-Safety coordinator will:
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Keep up to date with the latest risks to children whilst using technology;
familiarise herself with the latest research and available resources for
academy and home use.
Review this policy regularly and bring any matters to the attention of the
Headteacher.
Advise the Headteacher, governing body on relevant e-safety matters.
Provide information to parents and the school community on e-safety matters
Liaise with the local authority, IT technical support and other agencies as
required.
Retain responsibility for the e-safety incident log; ensure staff know what to
report and ensure the appropriate audit trail.
Make herself aware of any reporting function with technical e-safety
measures, i.e. internet filtering reporting function; liaise with the Headteacher
and responsible governor to decide on what reports may be appropriate for
viewing.
IT Technical Support Staff
Technical support staff are responsible for ensuring that:
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The IT technical infrastructure is secure; this will include as a minimum:
Anti-virus is fit-for-purpose, up to date and applied to all capable devices.
Windows (or other operating system) updates are regularly monitored and
devices updated as appropriate.
Any e-safety technical solutions such as Internet filtering are operating
correctly.
Filtering levels are applied appropriately and according to the age of the user;
that categories of use are discussed and agreed with the e-safety officer and
Headteacher.
Passwords are applied correctly to all users regardless of age
The IT System Administrator password is to be changed on a monthly (30
day) basis.
All Staff
Staff are to ensure that:
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All details within this policy are understood. If anything is not understood it
should be brought to the attention of the Headteacher.
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Any e-safety incident is reported to the e-Safety Coordinator (and an e-Safety
Incident report is made), or in her absence to the Headteacher. If you are
unsure the matter is to be raised with the e-Safety Coordinator or the
Headteacher to make a decision.
Pupils
The boundaries of use of ICT equipment and services in this school are given in the
student Acceptable Use Policy; any deviation or misuse of ICT equipment or
services will be dealt with in accordance with the behaviour policy.
E-Safety is embedded into our curriculum; students will be given the appropriate
advice and guidance by staff. Similarly, all students will be fully aware of how they
can report areas of concern whilst at school or outside of school.
Parents and Carers
Parents play the most important role in the development of their children; as such the
academy will support and provide information to parents to enable them to develop
the skills and knowledge they need to ensure the safety of children outside the
academy environment. Through appropriate workshops, school newsletters and
links on our website; the academy will keep parents up to date with new and
emerging e-safety risks.
We want all parents and carers to:
 Take an interest in what their children are doing on-line and understand the
risks posed to their children
 Recognise those risks and take steps to minimise those risks
 provide a supportive and caring environment in which their children can learn
about on-line and computer safety
 react appropriately to issues that arise
4: Technology
Technology
Lisle Marsden Church of England Primary Academy uses a range of devices
including PC’s, laptops, iPads. In order to safeguard the pupils and in order to
prevent loss of personal data we employ the following assistive technology:
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Internet Filtering – we use ‘Smoothwall’ that prevents unauthorized access to
illegal websites. It also prevents access to inappropriate websites. IT Support
are responsible for ensuring that the filtering is appropriate and that any
issues are brought to the attention of the Headteacher.
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Email Filtering – we use ‘Smoothwall’ that prevents any infected email to be
sent from the school, or to be received by the school. Infected is defined as:
an email that contains a virus or script (i.e. malware) that could be damaging
or destructive to data; spam email such as a phishing message.
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Passwords – all staff and students will be unable to access any device without
a unique username and password. Staff and student passwords will change
on a termly basis or if there has been a compromise, whichever is sooner. All
staff are responsible for ensuring that passwords are changed in response to
the system prompts.
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Anti-Virus – All capable devices will have anti-virus software, Sophos. This
software will be updated at least weekly for new virus definitions. IT Support
will be responsible for ensuring this task is carried out, and will report to the
Headteacher if there are any concerns. All USB peripherals such as
keydrives are to be scanned for viruses before use.
5: The Safe Use of Digital Resources
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Internet – Use of the Internet in school is a privilege, not a right. Internet use
will be granted upon the return of a signed Acceptable Use Policy; this applies
to pupils and staff
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Email – All staff are reminded that emails are subject to Freedom of
Information requests, and as such the email service is to be used for
professional work-based emails only. Emails of a personal nature are
discouraged.
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Students are permitted to use the school email system, and as such will be
given their own email address. Their email accounts are filtered for
inappropriate content and any improper activity will be reported.
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Photos and videos – Digital media such as photos and videos are covered in
the schools’ Safe Use of Digital Images. All parents must sign a parental
consent form allowing the use of digital, photographic and video images
outside of the academy.
In addition, the following is to be strictly adhered to:
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Permission slips (via the school photographic policy) must be consulted
before any image or video of any child is uploaded.
There is to be no identification of students using first name and surname; first
name only is to be used.
Where services are “comment enabled”, comments are to be set to
“moderated”.
All posted data must conform to copyright law; images, videos and other
resources that are not originated by the school are not allowed unless the
owner’s permission has been granted or there is a licence which allows for
such use (i.e. creative commons).
6. Expected Conduct and Incident management
Expected conduct
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In this academy, all users:
are responsible for using the school Computing systems in accordance with
the relevant Acceptable Use Policy which they will be expected to sign before
being given access to school systems. (at KS1 it would be expected that
parents/carers would sign on behalf of the pupils.)
need to understand the importance of misuse or access to inappropriate
materials and are aware of the consequences
need to understand the importance of reporting abuse, misuse or access to
inappropriate materials and know how to do so
should understand the importance of adopting good online safety practice
when using digital technologies out of school and realise that the school’s
Online Safety Policy covers their actions out of school, if related to their
membership of the school
will be expected to know and understand school policies on the use of mobile
phones, digital cameras and hand held devices. They should also know and
understand school policies on the taking / use of images and on online
bullying
Staff are responsible for reading the school’s E safety policy and using the
school Computing systems accordingly, including the use of mobile phones,
and hand held devices.
Students/Pupils
 should have a good understanding of research skills and the need to avoid
plagiarism and uphold copyright regulations
Parents/Carers
 should provide consent for pupils to use the Internet, as well as other
technologies, as part of the E safety acceptable use agreement form at time
of their child’s entry to the school
 should know and understand what the ‘rules of appropriate use’ are and what
sanctions result from misuse
 Incident Management
In this academy:
 there is strict monitoring and application of the E safety policy and a
differentiated and appropriate range of sanctions, though the attitudes and
behaviour of users are generally positive and there is rarely need to apply
sanctions
 all members and its wider community are encouraged to be vigilant in
reporting issues, in the confidence that issues will be dealt with quickly and
sensitively, through the school’s escalation processes.
 support is actively sought from other agencies as needed (e.g. the local
authority and regional broadband grid, UK Safer Internet Centre helpline) in
dealing with online safety issues
 monitoring and reporting of online safety incidents takes place and contribute
to developments in policy and practice in e-safety within the school. The
records are reviewed/audited and reported to the school’s senior leaders,
Governors /the LA / LSCB as necessary
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parents / carers are specifically informed of online safety incidents involving
young people for whom they are responsible.
We will contact the Police if one of our staff or pupils receives online
communication that we consider is particularly disturbing or breaks the law
We will make a referral to the local Prevent Lead (Humberside police) if we
believe that any pupil is at risk of radicalisation through the influence of the
internet
8. Training and Curriculum
Education and Curriculum
Pupil Online safety curriculum
 Lisle Marsden Academy has a clear, progressive Online safety education
programme as part of the Computing curriculum / PSHE curriculum. This
covers a range of skills and behaviours appropriate to the pupils’ age and
experience, including:
o to STOP and THINK before they CLICK
o to develop a range of strategies to evaluate and verify information
before accepting its accuracy;
o to be aware that the author of a web site / page may have a particular
bias or purpose and to develop skills to recognise what that may be;
o to know how to narrow down or refine a search;
o [for older pupils] to understand how search engines work and to
understand that this affects the results they see at the top of the
listings;
o to understand acceptable behaviour when using an online
environment / email, i.e. be polite, no bad or abusive language or
other inappropriate behavior; keeping personal information private;
o to understand how photographs can be manipulated and how web
content can attract the wrong sort of attention;
o to understand why on-line ‘friends’ may not be who they say they are
and to understand why they should be careful in online environments;
o to understand why they should not post or share detailed accounts of
their personal lives, contact information, daily routines, location,
photographs and videos and to know how to ensure they have
turned-on privacy settings;
o to understand why they must not post pictures or videos of others
without their permission;
o to know not to download any files – such as music files – without
permission;
o to have strategies for dealing with receipt of inappropriate materials;
o [for older pupils] to understand why and how some people will
‘groom’ young people for sexual reasons;
o To understand the impact of online bullying, sexting, extremism,
possible radicalization and trolling and know how to seek help if they
are affected by any form of online bullying.
o To know how to report any abuse including online bullying; and how
to seek help if they experience problems when using the Internet and
related technologies, i.e. parent or carer, teacher or trusted staff
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member, or understanding how to access ChildLine or the CLICK
CEOP button.
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Plans Internet use carefully to ensure that it is age-appropriate and supports
the learning objectives for specific curriculum areas.
Ensures staff will model safe and responsible behaviour in their own use of
technology during lessons.
Ensures that when copying materials from the web, staff and pupils
understand issues around plagiarism; how to check copyright and also know
that they must respect and acknowledge copyright / intellectual property
rights;
Ensures that staff and pupils understand the issues around aspects of the
commercial use of the Internet, as age appropriate. This may include, risks in
pop-ups; buying online; online gaming / gambling;
Staff and governor training
This academy:
o Ensures staff know how to send or receive sensitive and personal data
and understand the requirement to encrypt data where the sensitivity
requires data protection;
o Makes regular training available to staff on online safety issues and the
school’s online safety education program; annual updates/ newsletters
o Ensure all staff are aware of the dangers posed to children through
extremism and radicalization on the internet and know how to report
any concerns
o Provides, as part of the induction process, all new staff [including those
on university/college placement and work experience] with information
and guidance on the e-safety policy and the school’s Acceptable Use
Policies.
Parent awareness and training
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Provides a program of advice and guidance for parents, including:
 The introduction of the Acceptable Use Agreements to new parents,
to ensure that principles of online safe behaviour are made clear
 Information leaflets; in school newsletters; on the school web site;
 demonstrations, practical sessions held at school;
 suggestions for safe Internet use at home;
 provision of information about national support sites for parents.
Evaluation
This E Safety policy and its strategies will be continually evaluated as part of the
academy’s on going safeguarding work. The E Safety policy will be updated annually
as part of the safeguarding audit and will be reviewed by the Governing Body as part
of its annual monitoring arrangements.
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