E-safety at St Martin de Porres
Safeguarding Update
How to Protect Children from Harmful Content
Birmingham City Council have recently received several reports from parents and school staff about harmful content on Roblox including worrying accounts of young children being sent 'friend requests' from strangers and in-game characters imitating sex. Our online safety partners ineqe have conducted further research and created the Roblox Parents Guide to help you understand how to keep children and young people safe on Roblox. https://ineqe.com/2022/01/19/roblox-parents-guide-and-age-restrictions/
How to Protect Children from Harmful Content
Birmingham City Council have recently received several reports from parents and school staff about harmful content on Roblox including worrying accounts of young children being sent 'friend requests' from strangers and in-game characters imitating sex. Our online safety partners ineqe have conducted further research and created the Roblox Parents Guide to help you understand how to keep children and young people safe on Roblox. https://ineqe.com/2022/01/19/roblox-parents-guide-and-age-restrictions/
Please ensure that your children are using age appropriate games and apps when using the internet at home. A reminder that, in line with age restrictions, no children within our school should be using social media sites.
Children under 13 MUST NOT be using social media sites ie Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter.
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If you are concerned about anything that your child has seen or heard on the internet or has received any inappropriate emails, attachments or text messages, please advise us by completing the form below.
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Click here to download and read MSP (Manchester Safeguarding Partnership) advice for parents & carers regarding online safety.
The internet is a fantastic place overflowing with knowledge, games and communities of people, and, just like pupils across the country, the pupils here at St Martin de Porres Primary School spent a great deal of time using the internet within school and at home. This is why it is important pupils at St Martin de Porres learn how to be safe when browsing online and becoming members of online communities. One way to make browsing the internet safer at home is to use a 'safe search' search engine. Below are links to search engines designed for children to use on the internet. www.safesearchkids.com www.askforkids.com www.kidsclick.org And below is a link to the education version of YouTube http://www.youtube.com/education We also encourage parents to set up filtering on their home internet. UK Safer Internet Centre |
BE SAFE - BE SMART
Do you know what your child is doing on a laptop computer, mobile phone, iPod etc when alone? At school we teach children about Internet safety.
Digital Parenting is a publication which is full of articles on the latest developments in internet safety across a range of topics, as well as tips and practical advice to help you keep your children safe on line. Download a copy HERE.
Social networking allows many us to keep in contact with people and to share details and photos of what is happening in our lives. Young people will have grown up surrounded by sites such as Facebook, Bebo and Myspace. Social networking sites will undoubtedly play an important part in the lives of youngsters as they get older and we need to ensure that we give them simple guidance to ensure that they use them safety.
Five simple Facebook rules to discuss at home:
1. Adjust privacy settings-In Facebook you can select Settings -- Privacy Settings -- Profile. This will allow you to restrict who sees information and prevents friends of friends seeing your posts and photos. In Bebo you can do a similar task by selecting Settings -- Privacy Settings. Remember that you can also restrict who sees each photo.
2. Think before you post. It is very easy to a post a comment or photo in anger or frustration. By the time you remove it many people will have seen it and the harm has been done.
3. Only add people who you know in real life as friends. Remember that just because someone has a photo showing them as school pupil in their profile doesn't mean they are - they may actually be someone completely different.
4. Think carefully about how much personal information you put on your profile - you don't need to tell everyone your address, date of birth and mobile number.
5. Pay attention to age restrictions - for example Facebook and Bebo are for people aged 13 and over.
Do you know what your child is doing on a laptop computer, mobile phone, iPod etc when alone? At school we teach children about Internet safety.
Digital Parenting is a publication which is full of articles on the latest developments in internet safety across a range of topics, as well as tips and practical advice to help you keep your children safe on line. Download a copy HERE.
Social networking allows many us to keep in contact with people and to share details and photos of what is happening in our lives. Young people will have grown up surrounded by sites such as Facebook, Bebo and Myspace. Social networking sites will undoubtedly play an important part in the lives of youngsters as they get older and we need to ensure that we give them simple guidance to ensure that they use them safety.
Five simple Facebook rules to discuss at home:
1. Adjust privacy settings-In Facebook you can select Settings -- Privacy Settings -- Profile. This will allow you to restrict who sees information and prevents friends of friends seeing your posts and photos. In Bebo you can do a similar task by selecting Settings -- Privacy Settings. Remember that you can also restrict who sees each photo.
2. Think before you post. It is very easy to a post a comment or photo in anger or frustration. By the time you remove it many people will have seen it and the harm has been done.
3. Only add people who you know in real life as friends. Remember that just because someone has a photo showing them as school pupil in their profile doesn't mean they are - they may actually be someone completely different.
4. Think carefully about how much personal information you put on your profile - you don't need to tell everyone your address, date of birth and mobile number.
5. Pay attention to age restrictions - for example Facebook and Bebo are for people aged 13 and over.
We also suggest parents visit the website link below for up to date information on Facebook privacy settings, as whilst we know that no children under the age of 13 should be on Facebook, if they are then they should be educated as to how to ensure they are safe.
Click here to learn about YourSphere, the kids-only social network.
In school, children learn about E-Safety through lessons along with assemblies and workshops with parents. We also encourage parents/carers to talk to their children about how to behave safety when online, to ensure pupils remain safe when browsing at home.
https://parentinfo.org/
Our children know to report any inappropriate content, contact or conduct they encounter online to CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) by visiting this page and clicking our report button below.
CEOP also has a great website of information on E-Safety for parents. Please click the link below to visit the page.
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
The NSPCC has a very simple to use guide for parents regarding social media websites.
NSPCC quick guide for parents
Click here to learn about YourSphere, the kids-only social network.
In school, children learn about E-Safety through lessons along with assemblies and workshops with parents. We also encourage parents/carers to talk to their children about how to behave safety when online, to ensure pupils remain safe when browsing at home.
https://parentinfo.org/
Our children know to report any inappropriate content, contact or conduct they encounter online to CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) by visiting this page and clicking our report button below.
CEOP also has a great website of information on E-Safety for parents. Please click the link below to visit the page.
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
The NSPCC has a very simple to use guide for parents regarding social media websites.
NSPCC quick guide for parents
Six tips for parents:
1. Set up an account for each user on your pc at home and only give yourself administrator access. This will allow you to keep control of the settings and the installation of software. Each user account you can be password protected.
2. Add a screensaver protected by a password to your account so that if you leave your PC for 5 minutes you will have to enter your password. You can do this in the Control Panel.
3. Encourage your family to use technology in a public part of the house and not in a bedroom. This applies not just to PCs but also to laptops, game consoles, internet browsers on phones etc.
4. Remember that many consoles come with family settings. For example if you want to disable or limit Xbox Live on an Xbox 360 you can do so by going to Settings --Parental Controls. There is also the option to add a mask to voices so that a youngster's voice sounds like that of an adult or even a robot.
5. Encourage your child not to open e-mails from unfamiliar e-mail addresses and to avoid opening suspicious attachments. Remind your child that if an e-mail seems too good to be true then there is almost certainly a catch!
6. Ensure that you have a pop-up blocker turned on. Both Internet Explorer and Firefox come with their own pop-up blockers. If you are accessing a site that has a genuine pop up window that you need to access you should add it to the trusted sites rather than turn off the pop up blocker. The settings can be found in the Tools menu of the browser.
1. Set up an account for each user on your pc at home and only give yourself administrator access. This will allow you to keep control of the settings and the installation of software. Each user account you can be password protected.
2. Add a screensaver protected by a password to your account so that if you leave your PC for 5 minutes you will have to enter your password. You can do this in the Control Panel.
3. Encourage your family to use technology in a public part of the house and not in a bedroom. This applies not just to PCs but also to laptops, game consoles, internet browsers on phones etc.
4. Remember that many consoles come with family settings. For example if you want to disable or limit Xbox Live on an Xbox 360 you can do so by going to Settings --Parental Controls. There is also the option to add a mask to voices so that a youngster's voice sounds like that of an adult or even a robot.
5. Encourage your child not to open e-mails from unfamiliar e-mail addresses and to avoid opening suspicious attachments. Remind your child that if an e-mail seems too good to be true then there is almost certainly a catch!
6. Ensure that you have a pop-up blocker turned on. Both Internet Explorer and Firefox come with their own pop-up blockers. If you are accessing a site that has a genuine pop up window that you need to access you should add it to the trusted sites rather than turn off the pop up blocker. The settings can be found in the Tools menu of the browser.
