Booker Avenue Infant School
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Online Safety
Safer Internet Day 2023
Tuesday 7th February 'Want to talk about it?'
The Computing curriculum aims to equip pupils with the knowledge, understanding and skills to use information and communication technology (ICT) creatively and purposefully. A key aspect of this lies in being “digitally literate”. Online technologies play a huge role and so providing a broad and balanced online safety education at each key stage is vital to ensuring that pupils can navigate the online world safely and positively.'
“Digital Literacy” – a definition:
1. The ability to find, evaluate, use, share, and create content using computers and the Internet.
2. The ability to understand and use information in different formats (articles, journals, videos, etc) from different sources (web search, news website, someone’s blog, etc) when presented on a computer.
The concept of literacy is more than just being able to read – it’s about reading with meaning. You can’t understand information found on the Internet without evaluating its sources and placing it in context.
Being safe online outside school
At school the children’s use of the Internet is controlled, filtered and closely monitored through Purple Mash. The information and web sites below can help you as parents understand online safety and, if necessary, use tools to keep your child(ren) safe online.
Online hate, extremism and fake news
The following link is a useful guide from Coventry Prevent:
Parental Controls
Parental Controls are available for all computers, mobile devices, phones, etc to help reduce the chance that your children will come across inappropriate or offensive content online.
Online Safety links
Join in with Mummy Penguin’s song and follow the adventures of Smartie the Penguin as he learns how to be safe on the internet.
Little Bird's Internet Security Adventure
Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure is a beautifully illustrated storybook for pre-school children designed to help parents initiate conversations about Internet safety in an age-appropriate manner.
A guide to the social networks your children use. Stay up to date and keep your child safe in today’s digital world.
Think U Know
For parents of primary school children.
A great site aiming to make online parenting simple. It includes practical tips and simple guidance.
CEOP Command
(formerly the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)
The team that brought you Think U Know working with child protection partners across the UK and overseas to identify the main threats to children and coordinate activity against these threats to bring offenders to account.
A great source of practical, factual and easy-to-understand information on online safety with great links for advice with children under 5 years, 6 to 9 years and 10 to 12 years old.
Get Safe Online – short videos
Get Safe Online – safe social networking
A not-for-profit organisation working with online safety experts to bring you all the information you need to keep your children safe online.
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