Acceptable Use Policies
2022 -2023
| acceptable-use-policy-school-pre-prep-expectations-updated-aug-2022.pdf |
| acceptable-use-policy-school-prep-ks2-expectations-updated-aug-2022.pdf |
| acceptable-use-policy-school-prep-ks3-expectations_2022.pdf |
Online Safety Tips for Parents
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2023
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Week 1:
Back to School | Online Safety Tips for Children The beginning of a new school year. Every cloud has a silver lining though! Another term means new friends to make, different stuff to learn, fresh online trends to jump on and exciting new to play on your phone, computer or console. We’ve compiled a list of our top tips to ensure that – whether you’re going online to chat, research things or just have fun – you can do it safely. In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of tips such as how to spot fake news, reporting something offensive online and how to deal with bullies. |
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Week 2:
What Parents Need to Know about the Ofcom Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2022 Ofcom’s annual ‘Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes’ report offers a detailed rundown of how young people used and experienced the internet during the previous year. Like its immediate predecessor, the 2022 edition will be particularly revealing because its findings again reflect the continuing impact of the pandemic on young people’s online activities. |
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Week 3:
Supporting Children to Deal with Upsetting Content Raising children in the digital age seems to be getting tougher, with the world currently experiencing so many uncertainties. From the continuing impact of COVID-19 to the war in Ukraine, right now children across the globe can scarcely go online without being exposed to unsettling stories, images and ideas. Reassuring a concerned child can be difficult, especially when bad news feels omnipresent. We’ve put together some advice to help you in discussing upsetting events with young ones. |
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Week 4:
What Parents Need to Know about YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing social media platform that allows billions of people around the world to watch, share and upload their own videos with a vast range of content – including sport, entertainment, education and lots more. It’s a superb space for people to consume content that they’re interested in. As a result, this astronomically popular platform has had a huge social impact: influencing online culture on a global scale and creating new celebrities. In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as connecting with strangers, inappropriate content and high visibility. |
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Week 5:
What Parents Need to Know about Facebook With 2.9 billion users, Facebook, owned by the recently rebranded Meta, is the world’s most popular social media platform. It encourages interaction with other people by (among other things) adding them as friends, reacting to or commenting on their content, sharing images and videos, posting status updates, joining groups and playing games. Facebook is free, and anyone over 13 can join – but with no age verification, younger children can easily create an account: it’s likely your child is already familiar with the platform, even if they don’t yet use it themselves. |
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Week 6:
What Parents Need to Know about WhatsApp WhatsApp is the world’s most popular messaging service, with around two billion users exchanging texts, photos, videos and documents, as well as making voice and video calls. Its end-to-end encryption means messages can only be viewed by the sender and any recipients: not even WhatsApp can read them. Updates to its privacy policy in 2021 (involving sharing data with parent company Facebook) caused millions to leave the app, but the new policy was widely misinterpreted – it only related to WhatsApp’s business features, not to personal messages. |
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Week 6:
What Parents Need to Know about Group Chats Occurring through messaging apps, on social media and in online games, group chats are among the most popular ways that young people engage with their peers online. Involving, by definition, three or more individuals, these groups allow users to send messages, images and videos to everyone in one place. While they are useful for helping friends, people with shared interests or members of a club to communicate and coordinate activities, they can also leave young people feeling excluded and bullied – as well as providing opportunities for inappropriate content to be shared and viewed. In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as bullying, inappropriate content and unknown members. Celebrating Ant-Bullying Week and the International Day of Tolerance. |
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Week 7:
Age-inappropriate content “Inappropriate” means different things to different people. What’s acceptable for one age group, for example, may be unsuitable for a slightly younger audience. Online, young people can chance upon inappropriate content in various way – from pop-up ads to TikTok videos. The increasingly young age at which children become active in the digital world heightens the risk of them innocently running into something that they find upsetting or frightening. Trusted adults need to be able to help children be aware of what to do if they’re exposed to age-inappropriate content. |
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Week 8:
10 Top Tips for Respect Online: Inspiring Children to Build a Better Digital World Even before lockdowns inflamed the situation, one in every five 10- to 15-year-olds was experiencing bullying online: abusive messages, having rumours spread about them or being excluded from group chats, for example. Through smartphones and tablets, we’re used to being able to communicate from anywhere, at any time – but digital devices became commonplace so quickly that it caused a problem: as a society, we haven’t properly adjusted to how different they’ve made life. Our top tips can help you to build positive relationships online and avoid some of the potential issues. |
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Week 8:
What Parents Need to Know about Setting Up New Devices for Children At Christmas, millions of lucky children will be excitedly ripping the wrapping off new phones, tablets, computers or consoles. However, in the rush to let young ones enjoy their shiny gadgets, many parents neglect to set these devices up safely – increasing the chances of children going online and stumbling across adult content, making expensive downloads or installing unsuitable apps. A little time configuring the device properly can save a lot of anguish later. Here are our top tips to ensure that a dream gift on Christmas morning doesn’t turn into a nightmare by New Year. In the guide, you'll find tips such as adjusting the screen time settings, setting windows limits and installing Xbox family settings. |
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Week 9:
What Parents Need to Know about Setting Up Apps, Games and Software Millions of new phones, tablets, laptops and games consoles were nestling under Christmas trees this year. However, even if parents and carers have gone to the trouble of setting up these new devices and enabling the safety features, there are still potential hazards in the apps, games and software that children will want to install and use. Knowing what to look for and discussing those risks with your child may help avoid any nasty surprises this Christmas and into the new year. Here are some top tips for ensuring that unwrapping this year’s presents doesn’t unleash any unexpected dangers. In the guide, you’ll find tips such as disabling in-app purchasing, take note of age ratings and watching out for imitators. |
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Week 10:
What Parents Need to Know about TikTok TikTok is a video-sharing social media app which lets people create, view and download looping 15-second clips. Typically, these are videos of users lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs or soundbites (often for comic purposes), enhanced with filters, effects and text. Designed with young people in mind, TikTok skyrocketed in popularity in 2019 and has featured near the top of download charts ever since. It now has around 1 billion active users worldwide. In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as age-inappropriate content, addiction and in-app spending. |
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Upper School Online Safety Information
TikTok
The TikTok Guardian’s Guide is designed to provide an overview of TikTok and the many tools and controls that they have built into the product to keep their uses and community safe. The guide also provides general information on common internet safety concerns.
https://www.fosi.org/how-to-be-good-digital-parent#toolkit-form
https://www.fosi.org/good-digital-parenting-tool/tiktok-resources-for-families
https://www.fosi.org/good-digital-parenting-tool/tiktok-resources-for-families
| internet-matters-tiktok-guide-3.pdf |
| parental-control-tiktok-privacy-and-safety-settings.pdf |
| parents-guide-to-tiktok.pdf |
| tiktok-guide-for-parents-revised.pdf |
General Online Safety Information
Anti-Bullying: Kindness Online
| 30d7ef51723e3ce4c659ac0a18ee8e7f.pdf |
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Think U Know Thinkuknow aims to empowers children and young people aged 4-18 to identify the risks they may face online and know where they can go for support. |
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| parent_and_pupil_expectations_for_home_learning_using_online_platforms.pdf |
| microsoft_teams_information_for_pupils_and_families_sept_2020.pdf |
'Internet Matters' Information for Parents Documents
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Internet Matters From age-specific online safety checklists to guides on how to set parental controls on a range of devices, you’ll find a host of practical tips to help children get the most out of their digital world. |
| internet-matters-guide-online-safety.pdf |
| internet-matters-tips-internet-manners.pdf |
| internet-matters-tips-set-up-safe-checklist.pdf |
| internet-matters-guide-online-safety-for-parents-of-children-0-5-years-old.pdf |
| internet-matters-guide-online-safety-for-parents-of-children-6-10-years-old.pdf |
| internet-matters-parent-age-guides-11-13.pdf |
| internet-matters-guide-digital-resilience-6-10-years-old.pdf |
| internet-matters-guide-digital-resilience-11-13-years-old.pdf |
| internet-matters-guide-balancing-screen-time-0-5.pdf |
| internet-matters-guide-balancing-screen-time-5-7-keystage1.pdf |
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| internet-matters-guide-balancing-screen-time-11-14-keystage3.pdf |
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Childnet
A non-profit organisation working with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children. |
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