Online safety is an inherent part of our computing and RSE curriculum, we also recognise the importance of practising online safety beyond the school to help mitigate the risks inherently associated with any kind of digital technology for our children.

We have collated several useful guides for parents to use. These free online safety guides, produced by National Online Safety, known as NOS throughout these pages,  look at ways that trusted adults can encourage open conversations with children and young people about their digital lives. It outlines useful tips such as being as honest as possible, discussing how misleading the online world can be and creating a ‘family agreement’ for safe use.

Why is Online Safety Important?

The internet and online technology provides new opportunities for young people's learning and growth, but it can also expose them to new types of risks. Whenever the children are online they are at risk from being exposed to unsuitable content, accidentally disclosing their personal data, illegal downloads, file sharing, spyware, viruses, inappropriate advances and cyber bullying. Whilst the children are learning to navigate the world, using the internet as a resource and engaging in internet enabled communication, they need to be taught how to explore it safely.

It’s important for our school and community of parents to educate the children on how to identify the risks posed by the internet and for the children to know how to protect themselves from them.  Online safety is incredibly important because children can be just one wrong click away from danger.

Regardless of whether the children are in primary school or secondary school, when school-age children are exposed to the internet, there are risks involved. The internet poses four main types of risks to children. These risks are content risks, contact risks, conduct risks and contract risks (see link below for more information on the 4 areas). 

Online safety is an inherent part of our computing and RSE curriculum, we also recognise the importance of practising online safety beyond the school to help mitigate the risks inherently associated with any kind of digital technology for our children.

We have collated several useful guides for parents to use. These free online safety guides, produced by National Online Safety,  look at ways that trusted adults can encourage open conversations with children and young people about their digital lives. It outlines useful tips such as being as honest as possible, discussing how misleading the online world can be and creating a ‘family agreement’ for safe use.