E-Safety

• Don’t post any personal information online, like your address, email address or mobile number;
• Think carefully before posting pictures or videos of yourself.  Once you put a picture of yourself online it’s out there!  People can not only see it but may be able to download it.  It’s not just yours anymore!
• Keep your privacy settings as high as possible;
• Never give out your passwords;
• Do not befriend people you do not know – they might not be who they say they are!
• Do not meet up with people you have met online.  Always speak to your parent or carer if someone encourages you to do so;
• Remember that not everyone online is who they say they are;
• Think carefully about what you say before you post something online;
• Respect other peoples views, even if you don’t agree with someone else’s views, it doesn’t mean you need to be rude;
• If you see something online that makes you feel uncomfortable, unsafe or worried – leave the website, turn off your computer if you want to, and always tell a trusted adult immediately.

All staff, pupils and parents have signed acceptable use policies, which ensures that everyone knows and understands the rules for using the internet safely and has agreed to abide by the rules.

At Heron Cross, we use a Forensic Monitoring programme to monitor the pupils’ computer usage. This helps to keep children safe and also ensures that, if any events arise, they can be resolved swiftly.

Inappropriate websites are blocked for children’s safety.

All children click to accept an acceptable use policy when they log on to any machine in school.

E-safety is taught in every class, and there is an e-safety aspect to every ICT and Computing lesson.

E-safety questionnaires are completed twice yearly with children in all year groups, to enable us to gain information on our pupils’ internet behaviours. This ensures that we are up-to- date with what our children are doing on the internet and how we can support them to be safe.