Online Safety
Welcome to our school online safety section. This is here to help you and your child stay safe online when using desktop, tablet and mobile devices. The section will be updated regularly so please make sure you check back to see our new content.
Our Lead for Online Safety (with responsibility for Filtering and Monitoring) is-:
Mrs Catherine Burch (Headteacher)
Our Lead Governor for Online Safety (with responsibility for Filtering and Monitoring) is:-
Mr Jeremy Turner
Top Tips
Internet Matters has produced a series of ‘Digital Safety at a Glance’ guides for parents of children of five to seven, eight to ten and eleven to thirteen year olds. The guides include issues for parents to be aware of and practical tips for keeping children safe. The guides can be found here:
Useful Websites
- BBC Own It – a place to help you boss your life online
- Childnet International – for primary children
- Childnet International – for teachers and professionals
- Facebook Safety Centre – guides to Facebook settings
- Internet Matters – a guide to help you through the many issues children can experience when using the internet
- Internet Watch Foundation – the UK Hotline for reporting criminal online content
- NSPCC: Keeping Children Safe Online – support for parents and carers from the NSPCC
- Report Online Terrorist Material (gov.uk) – report illegal terrorist information, pictures or videos you’ve found on the internet. Your report will be treated anonymously
- ThinkUKnow – learning resource for children
- UK Safer Internet Centre: Parental Controls – how to set up parental controls offered by your home ISP
Useful Documents
Reporting Harmful Content
The RHC button is an asset of SWGfL, a charity working internationally to ensure all benefit from technology, free from harm.
The button has been developed to offer anyone living in the UK a simple and convenient mechanism for gaining access to reporting routes for commonly used social networking sites, gaming platforms, apps and streaming services alongside trusted online safety advice, help and support. It also provides access to an online mechanism for reporting online harm to the RHC service for those over the age of 13 where an intial report has been made to industry but no action has been taken. RHC will review content in line with a sites' community standards and act in a mediatory capacity where content goes against these.
Children under 13 years of age are encouraged to tell an adult that they trust about what has happened and to ask for their help in reporting this going through our how we can help resource together.
RHC also has advice and links to reporting routes for other online harms people may come across or face, such as impersonation, privacy violations and intimate image abuse.
The RHC button provides a gateway to the RHC reporting pages, an area of the RHC website offering:
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links to reporting routes on commonly used sites for 8 types of online harm
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help, advice and support on what to do if experiencing or witnessing harm online
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signposting to industry partners reporting forms and the ability to reportlegal but harmful content directly to RHC for further investigation
Reporting to RHC
Reports can be made 24/7 through the online reporting forms and helpline practitioners will review and respond to reports within 72 hours between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday.
Reports can be made to RHC by anyone over the age of 13. SWGfL operates 3 helplines and to be sure you're getting the right support take a look at the Helpline flowchart to find out who can best support you.
