E-Safety & Social Media

Online Safety / E-Safety

Today’s pupils are growing up in an increasingly complex world, living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks.

At Wybunbury Delves CE Primary School, we recognise that technology plays an important role in the everyday lives of children and adults. Consequently, we teach our pupils the knowledge needed to make the best use of the internet and technology in a safe, considered and respectful way.

We understand the responsibility and importance of focussing on the underpinning knowledge and behaviours that can help pupils to navigate the online world safely and confidently regardless of the device, platform or app.

We understand that E-safety can be daunting so to help you to keep up to date with the latest information we have collated some useful websites to help you to keep your children safe online and offer advice that you may need.

Managing Screen Time

Click the links below for tips on managing screen time for different age groups:

• ·Balancing screen time – top tips (0-5 years old)
• ·Balancing screen time – top tips (5-7 year olds)
• ·Balancing screen time- top tips (7-11 year olds)

Helpful Links

• ·Skips Safety Net offer lots of useful and informative advice to help keep your child safe online. Please take a look at their website here: Skips Safety Net
• ·Staying Safe Online: CEOP Education
• ·Guidance for parents regarding keeping children safe online and how to report: Staying Safe Online – E Safety
• ·Childnet.com (Parent and Carer Toolkit) offers resources and practical advice on keeping your child safe online.
• ·Advice about key social media platforms and apps: Social media guides

Our home-school agreement states that all our parents and carers adhere to the Social Media policy for school website /Facebook which does not accept defamatory comments towards any staff or child member of our school community. Parents must not put any digital image of children's events/ or children in school on any public website eg. facebook.

It's important for everybody's safety that we are clear about how we use social media sites and what is acceptable behaviour from the people who choose to follow us. We use Facebook to publish information that is of general interest. We do not believe it is an appropriate place to discuss personal matters that are specific to individual members of our community, whether that be children, parents or staff.

In accordance with Cheshire East policy, we politely advise families not to request communication or befriending with any member of staff through social media sites.

In school we use a rnage of resources and lesson plans to teach E-Safety to the children, both KS1 and KS2 also use Google's Interland programme to underpin their e-safety learning.

We have also worked with Cheshire Police to provide digital safety lessons and a parental workshop.

You can also find tips for enabling online parental controls here