Online safety

Online safety is an important issue which as a school we are committed to teaching our children about. To help you with this, you may be interested in downloading the free Safer Internet Day resources for parents and carers that are available at: https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers. There are top tips, quizzes, and films, which you can use at home with your child. Some other resources which you may find helpful in supporting your child online are:

• Tips, advice and guides for parents and carers from the UK Safer Internet Centre at https://saferinternet.org.uk/
• Advice for parents and carers from Childnet at https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/
• Reviews and information about games, apps, TV shows and websites from Common Sense Media at https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
• Help on using parental controls and privacy settings from Internet Matters at https://www.internetmatters.org/
• Information and reporting of online grooming or sexual abuse from CEOP at https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/

We take the safety of our children very seriously at St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School, and this includes ensuring that they are safe when using ICT. 

We are able to monitor our computer network to see what our users are doing.  A clever piece of software runs silently on our computers and monitors what people are doing.  It sends reports to a database that we can then view - and then we can intervene if we think any of our users are not using our computer system appropriately. 

This software runs alongside our curriculum lessons where we teach our children about internet safety.  We understand that at school, our filtering systems and monitoring software work hard to protect our children - but we also understand the importance of educating them about how to react to the 'dangers' of the internet  when they are away from our controlled network (at home, at a friends etc) and what they can do if they feel at risk.  

As technology and the internet are almost constantly evolving, we will do our best to ensure that children at St Teresa’s are always aware of how they themselves can do the most possible to protect themselves when using the internet.

To help you keep your children safe at home, take a look at the useful links below.