Policies
National Online Safety
Follow this link for the National Online Safety Website:
National Online Safety | Keeping Children Safe Online in Education
You have been sent a link to allow you free access to this amazing resource, as a parent of The Grove. If you cannot access that link, please contact the School Office for support
Factsheets for Parents
This is a collection of key factsheets to give advice and guidance on how to keep you child safe when using each of these apps/games/websites.
EYFS and KS1 focused Online Safety Resources
Did you know that you need to be at least 13 years old to create a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Kik, ooVoo, You Tube or Snapchat account? It is 16 years old for a WhatsApp account and 17 years old for Vine, Tinder and Yik?
The internet is a public place. You never know who might see what you are doing, so think carefully about what you post. Before you post a comment, image or video, think about its content. What may be funny to you and your friends might be upsetting or offensive to other. While you can delete photos, post, text messages and statuses they may still be visible somewhere … online content lasts forever!
Set profiles to ‘private’ and limit what others can see about you online.
Passwords should be complicated (include a number or a symbol) and kept private, so only you know what they are.
If your child is upset, worried or uncomfortable about something that has occurred online, they should talk to someone and not bottle it up.
More Online Safety information can be found on CEOP’s website (www.thinkuknow.co.uk) and both The UK Safer Internet Centre (http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/) and childnet (http://www.childnet.com)are useful for both parents and pupils.
