Thank you to all the parents who attended the Online Safety Coffee Morning earlier today. Once again, Belinda delivered an informative session, updating parents and carers on the latest advances in technology and provide helpful advice to help you to keep your child safe when they are online. Her key advice is below:
- Get involved with your children online
- Talk about problem of giving out personal info or making information public
- Understand digital footprint
- Set boundaries / build self esteem
- Would you show that image / message to a teacher / grandparent / adult?
- Make sure they know who to talk to if they feel uncomfortable
- Talk to your children about what to do if they do come across
- something unpleasant.
- Use child-friendly search engines
- Use browser tools – Bookmarks & View History
- Install filtering (but don’t rely on it)
- Monitoring software?
- Find appropriate sites to visit and try not to overreact if accidents.
- Know your devices
Belinda also introduced us to a new BBC site which has many helpful activities, useful advice and links. https://www.bbc.com/ownit
If you would like more information please look at our Online Safety page http://www.stvincentsprimary.org.uk/school-info/online-safety/ which is constantly being updated or speak to Miss Coleman.