As we approach Safer Internet Day on February 6th, I wanted to share some valuable resources to help you educate both parents and students about online safety. These links cover crucial topics and can be seamlessly integrated into your messaging.
I hope you find them useful!
Guide for Parents: Primary
Here’s a recording of an Online Safety Webinar for Parents. Feel free to share it with your parents to make them aware of some of the issues faced by primary-age children on the internet.
Guide for Parents: Secondary
An online safety webinar run for secondary school parents. Covers the risks of social media such as Snapchat and TikTok. Also looks at online bullying. Share with your parents to keep them informed of the dangers faced by their children when online.
Online Safety Teaching Guide
This post looks at the requirements of the Education for a Connected World document, and how to meet them using resources from Project Evolve and elsewhere.
Read the guide here
More Links
Here are some more links you will find useful for supporting your staff when teaching about online safety.
- Wakelet of Online Safety Links: https://wakelet.com/wake/fqjDlJWhoB5uNYvFOW4R4
- Safer Internet Parent and Carers Guide: https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers
- Advice on screen time from Common Sense Media: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/whats-the-impact-of-media-and-screen-violence-on-children
- Family agreement from Childnet: https://www.childnet.com/help-and-advice/expiring-content-parents/family-agreement-parents/
- A guide to Parental Controls: http://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/
- Keeping your under-5 safe online: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/articles/keeping-your-under-five-safe-online/
- Parent Safe: https://parentsafe.lgfl.net/
- Internet Matters: https://www.internetmatters.org/digital-matters/modules/
- ThinkUKnow Parents Area: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
- Parentzone: https://parentzone.org.uk/library
School CPD Sessions Available
If you’re looking for staff CPD in Online Safety for the Spring term, then please get in touch. You can find details of the courses we offer here.
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