E-Safety

Online safety is a paramount aspect of safeguarding at Poplars Community Primary School and is not taught in isolation. Instead, it is carefully woven throughout our curriculum to ensure pupils develop a secure, age-appropriate, and comprehensive understanding of how to stay safe in an ever-changing digital world.

Online safety is taught explicitly through PSHE and RSE, Computing, and is reinforced regularly through assemblies and workshops throughout the academic year. This planned and progressive approach enables children to build a thorough and robust understanding of safe online behaviour, digital responsibility, and how to respond to potential risks.

Alongside our curriculum provision, we have extensive security and filtering systems in place within school, which are monitored both internally and externally to help protect pupils from inappropriate content and online dangers. Any online safety concerns or incidents are recorded and managed in line with our safeguarding procedures.

We recognise that safeguarding children online is most effective when there is a strong partnership between school and home. We therefore encourage parents and carers to regularly discuss online safety with their children and reinforce consistent messages about appropriate online behaviour, helping pupils to make safe and responsible choices both in and beyond school.

Please follow the link below for further advice and guidance on how to keep your children safe online.

NSPCC Online Safety

It’s essential to be realistic - banning the internet or technology will not work and it often makes a child less likely to report a problem. Education around safe use is essential.

Search Engines

Please note that no search engine is ever 100% safe but below provides some links to some “safer” search engines:

Research Searching

Kidtopia Kid’s Search Engine

Teach the Children Well

Kiddle

DuckDuckGo

GoGooligans

Google offers a safer search option for children searching on the Internet. You can find out how to do this by downloading the instructions at the bottom of the page.

Image Searching

Pics4Learning

Gaming

When children are accessing games via Xbox LIVE, privacy settings can be set up. To read more, click here.

Websites for More Information

Please click on the link to go to the relevant site:

CEOP

CEOP (The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) delivers a multi-agency service dedicated to tackling the abuse and exploitation of children in the real and ‘e’ world. Often it is referred to as an online 999. By clicking on the button, young people, parents and carers can get advice on a range of issues such as viruses, hacking and dealing with bullying online.

CEOP

Thinkuknow

The “Thinkuknow” website is brought to you by Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP).

Thinkuknow

Childnet

Kidsmart gives you lots of advice on how to stay safe online.

Childnet

Internet Matters

Internet Matters is a new online portal designed for parents and carers to access simple, easy and practical advice about online safety for their children, right through from pre-school to teens. It provides tips on protecting children from online grooming, cyberbullying, privacy and identity theft and inappropriate content. Internet Matters is a non-profit organisation set up by BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media.

Internet Matters