Grange Valley Primary & Nursery School

  1. E Safety

E Safety for Parents

On this page we have gathered and posted lots of useful links to top sites with great tips and guidance to help you support and protect your child online.

ICT in the 21st Century is seen as an essential resource to support learning and teaching, as well as playing an important role in the everyday lives of children, young people and adults. 

Information and Communications Technology covers a wide range of resources including; web-based and mobile learning.  It is also important to recognise the constant and fast paced evolution of ICT within our society as a whole.  Currently the internet technologies children and young people are using both inside and outside of the classroom include:

    • Websites
    • E-mail, Instant Messaging and chat room
    • Social Media, including Facebook and Twitter **
    • Mobile/ Smart phones with text, video and/ or web functionality
    • Other mobile devices with web functionality
    • Gaming, especially online
    • Learning Platforms and Virtual Learning Environments
    • Blogs and Wikis
    • APPs
    • Podcasting
    • Video Broadcasting
    • Music Downloading

Whilst exciting and beneficial both in and out of the context of education, much ICT, particularly web-based resources, are not consistently policed.  All users need to be aware of the range of risks associated with the use of these Internet technologies and that some have minimum age requirements, usually 13 years.

At Grange Valley we understand the responsibility to educate our pupils on eSafety issues; teaching them the appropriate behaviours and critical thinking skills to enable them to remain both safe and legal when using the internet and related technologies, in and beyond the context of the classroom.

Primary and secondary school students across St Helens have been helping to create a new information page for St Helens Council’s website – explaining how to stay safe online.

The Be E-Safe, Be E-Smart initiative was originally a project to develop
information leaflets. The young people involved then wanted to turn this
into a web information page.

The dedicated webpage – aimed at parents, carers and grandparents -
features links to national websites, including CEOP (Child Exploitation
Online Protection) and a 'Report It' button to flag up concerns or online
abuse.

The children and young people who took part – from four high schools and
seven primary schools - wanted their families to know how to keep them safe online. Follow this link to the page. http://sthelens.gov.uk/esafety

Please follow the link below to find out more about our safer internet days in school! 

Safer Internet Day 2016

Safer Internet Day 2017

Please click on the presentation below and share with your child.

 For Children!

Click on the cbbc picture to test your Internet safety knowledge with Hacker and help the Horrible Histories gang stay safe online.

   

ChildLine is the free helpline for children and young people in the UK. Click on the picture to go to their website. 

    

 

 

 

CEOP's thinkuknow website

Find the latest information on the sites you like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what’s good, what’s not and what you can do about it.

This site offers advice and guidance for all types of online behaviours be it on line gaming, social networking, sharing and much more.  Your children will be familiar with the child version of this site as it used in school you could perhaps ask them to help you with navigating through it.

Click the picture above to be redirected to CEOP's thinkuknow website

A Parents’ Guide to Facebook

Would you know whether your son/ daughters profile is set to public or private?  Would you know how to check?  Do you know what POS stands for when children are online chatting (Parent Over Shoulder)?  Do you know what Phishing is?  Facebook is very popular amongst young people (and many adults) this guide is produced annually to keep parents up to date with tips for keeping their children safe when using Facebook and informing them of the latest trends for Facebook usage.


Parent's Guide

Follow the link for advice on cyber bullying

http://www.childline.org.uk/Explore/Bullying/Pages/online-bullying.aspx

 

Cyber Bullying

Cyberbullying is becoming more prevalent amongst children and young people when they are online, particularly as the popularity of online gaming continues to increase. To help parents deal with any incidents of cyberbullying or if you think your child maybe a victim of online bullying there is advice and guidance for you as a parent and how to deal with such scenarios.

CEOP is dedicated to eradicating the abuse of children.