At St Botolphs CEVCP School, Online Safety is taught regularly throughout the year, beginning in Early Years and continuing all the way up to Year Six. We use our Computing Curriculum, Project Evolve and our PSHE units of work to cover the Digital Literacy strands set out in the National Curriculm and the eight areas set out by The UK Safer Internet Council’s Education for a Connected World.
Education for a Connected World focuses specifically on eight different aspects of online education:
1. Self-image and Identity
2. Online relationships
3. Online reputation
4. Online bullying
5. Managing online information
6. Health, wellbeing and lifestyle
7. Privacy and security
8. Copyright and ownership
The Education for a Connected World framework describes the Digital knowledge and skills that children and young people should have the opportunity to develop at different ages and stages of their lives. It highlights what a child should know in terms of current online technology, its influence on behaviour and development, and what skills they need to be able to navigate it.
Useful advice for parents and carers
Social Media privacy guides
If your child is using social networking sites to chat to friends and family or share their latest selfie, take a look at our list of social media guides to get you up to speed on the most popular platforms and help them set the right privacy settings.
Click on here to choose the right settings.
It is essential that children are safeguarded from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material and behaviours. At St Botolph's we empower, protect and educate children and staff in their use of technology and establish mechanisms to identify, intervene in, and escalate any concerns where appropriate but these messages can only be successful if they’re supported and reinforced by parents and carers when children are at home.
Mrs N. Hunt, holds overall responsibility for Online Safety within St Botolph's. Both Mrs N. Hunt and the Designated Safeguarding Lead, Mr M. Cobbold would be happy to support any parent or carer with any concerns or to further their knowledge. As parents, you are also able to report any online abuse online using the button below:
The breadth of issues classified within online safety is considerable, but can be categorised into four areas of risk:
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Content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content. For example, pornography, fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, anti-Semitism, radicalisation and extremism.
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Contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users. For example, peer to peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children with the intention to groom or exploit them for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes.
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Conduct: personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm. For example, making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g consensual and non-consensual sharing of nude and semi-nude images or videos) and/or pornography or other explicit images and online bullying.
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Commerce - risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and or financial scams.
In school, we use Project Evolve as a basis to support our children to understand risks and respond appropriately in the digital world. Each year children devise their class or year group E-Safety rules which can be used by parents to support safe use of digital devices at home. Further guidance can be found on our safeguarding or policy pages.
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Useful resources for further information
The following websites are useful for parents to access for general online safety advice:
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NSPCC - Online Safety and Net Aware
National Helplines
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UK Safer Internet Centre:
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Gov.uk - Report online material promoting terrorism or extremism
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Lucy Faithfull - Stop it now