September 2015
Celebrating children, learning and leading.
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Brave – to learn about new technology and how
to use it safely.
Boundless – the opportunities with technology
are endless.
Curious – the largest encyclopaedia is the www,
we can find out any information safely.
Playful – fun, engaging learning.
Responsible – become responsible users of
technology.
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Discuss what eSafety means to you and your
family.
Sourced from Ofsted ‘Inspecting eSafety in Schools Guidance’.
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Over one in three 3–4 year-olds use the internet.
Children who use the internet mostly alone comprise one in
seven internet users aged 5–7, one in four aged 8–11.
Children of all ages continue to use social networking sites;
22% of those aged 8–11 , having an average of 92 ‘friends’.
Younger children are increasingly using social networking
sites as evidenced by the rise of usage by those aged 5–7 in
the UK from 7% in 2009 to 23% in 2010.
◦ This is largely driven by sites like Club Penguin and Moshi Monsters
rather than age-restricted sites like Facebook. However, Facebook
remains enormously popular (96% of those aged 8–15 with an active
social networking site profile use Facebook).
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Keep all equipment that connects to the internet in a
family space.
Talk to your child about what they are doing online.
Discuss eSafety with your child.
Keep up-to-date with your child’s development online.
Set boundaries in the online world just as you would in
the real world.
Know what connects to the internet and how.
Use parental controls on devices that link to the
internet, such as the TV, laptops, computers, games
consoles and mobile phones.
Blog – do not add information that can identify your
child next to a photo.
Every parental control package is different, but most
provide services such as:
 Filtering – content to restrict access to particular
sites, such as pornographic websites.
 Time limits – restrict the amount of time your child
can be online, or set periods of time where your child
can access certain sites.
 Monitoring – where you are informed of certain sites
that your child is attempting to gain access to.
 Reporting – where you are provided with information
about what sites your child has used.
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Primary/Tools
/Parental-controls/
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The e-Safety agenda has shifted towards
enabling children and young people to
manage risk, rather than filtering/blocking
and therefore requires a comprehensive and
embedded curriculum which is adapted
specifically to the needs and requirements of
pupils and the technology with which they are
exposed too.
EYFS
Begin to understand the difference between real and online
experiences; ask permission to use the internet; tell an adult if
something is worrying them.
Key stage 1
Pupils should be taught to:
 use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal
information private; identify where to go for help and support when
they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or
other online technologies
This means:
 Keeping personal information private.
 Stranger danger online.
 What to do if they come across something worrying or upsetting
online.
 Positive behaviour online.
 Rules to stay safe.
 Permissions to take photos of others.
 Safe search engines
Key stage 2
Pupils should be taught to:
 use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise
acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report
concerns about content and contact
This means:
 Safe use of search engines including how they work.
 Understanding that not all content is reliable/accurate.
 Positive behaviour online. Responsibility to ‘take care’. Respect.
 Digital footprint can be seen by others.
 Keeping personal information private including use of passwords. UPKS2
– restricted access sites, settings.
 Risks – cyber bullying, unwanted contact from strangers, identity theft.
 How to manage unacceptable behaviour online including methods to
report e.g. trusted adult, report abuse button.
 Cyber bullying
 Stranger danger online – people not necessarily who they say they are.
 Online/offline friends – including use of chatrooms/social media if
appropriate.
 Copyright
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http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/hectorsw
orld/Episode1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMUbHuffO8
EYFS
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Kim and Lee
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Smartie the Penguin http://www.childnet.com/resources/smartie-the-penguin
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Digi Duck – being a good friend (online book)
http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/teachers/ks1/sourcesDuck/projet/DigiDuck-eBook.pdf
KS1
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Kim and Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMUbHuffO8
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Hector’s World http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/
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Smartie the Penguin http://www.childnet.com/resources/smartie-the-penguin
KS2
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Jigsaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8auwnJtqE (Y5+)
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Caught in the web – Newsround http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13908828 (Y5+)
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The Smart Crew - http://www.childnet.com/resources/the-adventures-of-kara-winston-andthe-smart-crew
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Horrible Histories http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p01g2pt6
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p01g2ppl http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p00nxznx
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
http://www.childnet.com/resources
http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/young%20kids/have-some-fun/astro-circus.aspx
http://www.digital-literacy.org.uk/Curriculum-Overview.aspx#yr2
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Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place via
technology. Whether on gaming sites, through a
mobile device or via a social networking site, the
effects can be devastating for the young people
involved.
With online technologies accessible 24 hours a day,
cyberbullying can be relentless. It can also intrude on
spaces that were previously personal, for example at
home; it can feel that there is no escape from it.
21% of 8 to 11 year olds have been deliberately
targeted, threatened or humiliated by an individual or
group through the use of mobile phone or the internet.
Beatbullying, Virtual Violence II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y
VE0XszE3A
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Playing games is great fun and for many
children gaming will be their first experience
of computers and the internet. Your child
may be playing on the computer on sites like
Club Penguin, CBeebies, Moshi Monsters or
Neopets. They may have a console, like a Wii
or an Xbox – remember, most consoles
connect to the internet.
Wherever their gaming takes them, it’s
important that you’re involved in your child’s
experiences from the very start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx
xeOL4-xTQ
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Many of the services we use online enable us to create a network of ‘friends’,
this is no different for your children. The games they play will ask them to make
friends with other ‘characters’, and on social networking sites they have the
option to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ friend requests. Being a friend shares information.
Children are using Social Media more and more at a younger age despite most
sites insisting that users are to be 13yrs+.
The school recommends that children under 13yrs do not have an account but
if they must, please check:
◦ Privacy settings – who can view?
◦ Details – phone, email, location, school?
◦ Photos that are posted
◦ Friends – are they real friends?
◦ Facebook Chat
Leading by example – teachers, parents and older siblings.
 The school recommends:
- not posting photos of children in school uniform online as this gives away vital
details alongside details already available on the website.
- not posting photos of other people’s children as this can post a safeguarding
risk. This is why we ask for you to only take photos of your own child at school
events using a camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA
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Children will only have ‘closed campus’
emails set up at school.
These will be monitored by staff.
eSafety lessons embedded in the curriculum.
eSafety incident log.
Children are asked not to access emails at
home until Yr5/6.
Children need to ‘take care’ when using
emails and be responsible users.