Our Online Safety team
National Online Safety
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Callands CP School is recognised for its commitment
to helping pupils stay safe online
Callands CP School is now a
National Online Safety Certified School
Callands CP School has successfully completed a comprehensive online safety training programme demonstrating its commitment to keeping children and young people safe online.
Callands CP School has received a National Online Safety Certified School Accreditation for its whole school community approach to protecting children in the online world.
National Online Safety is a multi-award winning digital training provider with extensive resources in online safety, developed in line with the Department of Education’s statutory requirements.
Its CPD accredited courses and educational resources support UK schools in educating the whole school community in online safety– including all senior leaders, teachers, all school staff and parents – on how to make the internet a safer place for children.
James Southworth, co-founder of National Online Safety, said: “Congratulations to everyone at Callands CP School on becoming a National Online Safety Certified School. By completing our training programme, the school has shown its strong commitment to implementing an effective whole school approach to online safety.”
“It can be increasingly difficult for schools and parents to stay ahead of online threats and ensure both children and staff are safeguarded from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material. We arm schools with the knowledge they need to understand online dangers and react in the best way possible to any problems.”
As parents, you are able to join us as a member of National Online Safety for free:
https://nationalonlinesafety.com/
National Online Safety provides members with free online content guides including games such as Roblox and Minecraft. It has has free webinars and online safety courses for parents.
Take a look at some of their guides below.
360 degree safe - Online safety mark
Here at Callands, we are currently re-assessing our 360 degree safe. Look out for our new report soon. Take a look at our previous report below.
Computing and Online Safety newsletters
CEOP
CEOP helps any child or young person under the age of 18 who is being pressured, forced or tricked into taking part in sexual activity of any kind. You can visit the CEOP Safety Centre for information and advice and make a report directly to CEOP.
Online Safety on our VLE
As a school we provide homework via our VLE on DB Primary, below is their online safety guide for your reference.
Online Guide for Parents
This document provides practical tips to help minimise the risks your child might face when online. It encourages you to keep talking to children and to stay involved.
The guide provides a range of useful websites that provide further advice and tips about keeping children safe online.
Policies
Useful websites
Below are some useful websites with information for parents, carers and teachers. Some websites also have interactive sections to share with your children. Please take a look and share together were appropriate:
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre – ceop.police.uk Thinkuknow – https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk NSPCC – https://www.nspcc.org.uk UK Safer Internet Centre – www.saferinternet.org.uk Kidsmart – www.kidsmart.org.uk BBC – https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/curations/stay-safe Childline – https://www.childline.org.uk Cybersmile Foundation – https://www.cybersmile.org Vodafone Digital Parenting – https://vodafonedigitalparenting.co.uk Information about Snapchat App from Thinkuknow – https://parentinfo.org Childnet - https://www.childnet.com/ internetmatters.org - https://www.internetmatters.org/
The Department for Education have also produced a useful guide around the subject of cyberbullying. To view or download this document, please click this link link,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/444865/Advice_for_parents_on_cyberbullying.pdf You may remember last year we sent home Google Internet Legends home for you to build, well Google Be Internet Legends scheme now has an interactive portal and games to support childrens e-safety learning and also a parent section:
Interactive site https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_ie/
Parent site https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_ie/parents
Web filtering and parental controls
Here at Callands CP School, we have appropriate filters in place through Smoothwall filtering and monitoring to ensure that our children are kept safe online whilst they learn. We feel that it is also important for us to guide parents to ensure that they have filters and have parental controls in place to protect their children when they are online at home.
Although broadband, mobile and WiFi providers offer filters to limit inappropriate content, these usually have to be set manually. The following link will take you to an informative resource which gives individual step by step videos and instructions to set up parental controls for many providers. We would encourage you to take a look at these to ensure that you have everything correctly in place in order to keep your child safe.
https://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/broadband-mobile/
National Online Safety also provides parent guides to support you in setting up parental controls on specfic devices, follow the link below and search parental controls:
Help and advice for children
If you find something on the internet or someone has made you sad or scared, you should tell an adult who looks after you at home or a teacher at school. If you would like to talk to someone else, we have added some links to the Advice Help and Report Centre. You can contact people who are friendly and helpful by following the link for your age group.
Ages 4-7
Information
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/4_7/child/ Ask for help https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/4_7/asking-for-help/ Ages 8 -10
Information
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/
Ask for help
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/worried/ Ages 11 - 13
Information
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_13/ Ask for help https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_13/help/