Online Safety
Technology plays a key role in preparing our children for life beyond school. We work together with families to ensure all pupils are safe online in addition to the real world.
As pupils' understanding and experience of online material grows, it’s important that our understanding grows alongside theirs so that we all have the knowledge necessary to ensure their experience is positive, safe, and empowering.
Monitoring and Filtering Systems
We use the following systems to ensure our children are safe when they are using computers and are online:
- The school's firewall and web filtering solution is all provided by LGfL
- All laptops, devices and servers have Sophos Central Anti Virus installed
- The school's email platform is provided by Google, which is covered by it own internal spam protection platform
- The schools backup solution is provided by our IT support: TechResponse.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP)
The National Crime Agency's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) helps children and young people. CEOP offers help if a young person (up to 18) has been forced or tricked into taking part in sexual activity with anyone online or in the real world. CEOP also offer advice and resources to support with the online problems young people might face, such as cyberbullying and hacking.
On the homepage of this website you'll see a scared character, which is an easy-to-access link to CEOP for our pupils. At Watling Park School we teach children that if they are worried about online safety, they can click on the scared figurine and the link will take them straight to CEOP for support.
The National College
The National College provides multi-award winning online safety education for the whole school community. They believe that when children go online to learn, to communicate or to play, they should be able to do so safely.
We are delighted to offer National Online Safety courses for free to all our families. The courses are up-to-date and relevant for all our young people, and for their families, as we work to keep them safe online.
Parents can join National College for free to help children to use the internet safely. You can register and create your account. When you’re set up, you’ll be able to set ‘Parent/Carer’ as your user type.
Resources
Visit the LGfL Online Safety Resource Centre for documents, advice and resources on online safety. Below you will also find some helpful documents with advice on keeping your children safe online, we’d recommend taking a look:
See also our Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact your child’s class teacher or the Headteacher via our office: office@watlingparkschool.org.uk