Online Safety is an important part of our curriculum as it provides the ability to protect and educate children in their use of technology as well as having appropriate tools in place to support any incident where appropriate.
Please explore the information on this page linked to how you can keep safe whilst using the internet in a positive and responsible way.
Filtering and Monitoring: At Gillamoor CE Primary School we have robust procedures to mitigate the risks of our children’s online safety. The school uses Smoothwall as its filtering and monitoring system. The system monitors keyboard entry and reports key words and watch words as they are typed on any child’s keyboard of the devices they use in school. This provides real time and highly effective monitoring of all users on the school system. We hope that this provides parents and carers with confidence that their children’s experience of the online world is safe and backed up by a broad curriculum of online safety guidance.
Internet safety is a huge part of our school curriculum, we challenge children to think about the key themes of content, contact, conduct and contract which form the four main areas for online safety. We believe that this gives them the best preparation for the digital world we live in.
Please remember to apply appropriate settings to children’s devices when they are using the internet at home or on mobile devices. Please refer to advice and guidance to ensure children’s devices are appropriately managed.
Please find further information and links to newsletters below.
https://www.internetmatters.org/about-us/newsletters/
https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers
https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/