What is E-safety?

The internet is essential in 21st century life for education, business and social interaction. As children move up through the school their access to various types of technology increases and it stands to reason that their exploration and curiosity increases too. The positives of the digital world overwhelmingly outweigh the negatives but children, schools and parents all need to be aware of various online risks. 

We at Stamfordham we follow the SMART Rules:

Be Smart, be cool – Be smart online.
What’s your favourite thing to do online? Visit the KidSMART website and learn more about the internet and being a SMART surfer. Learn the SMART Rules with Kara Winston and the SMART Crew. If anything goes wrong online or upsets you make sure you tell someone about it. Download a poster of the SMART Rules by clicking the link below.

Kid’s Smart Poster

Top Tips

• Always ask an adult before you use the internet. They can help you find the best thing to do.
• Don’t tell strangers where you live, your phone number or where you go to school. Only your friends and family need to know that.
• Don’t send pictures to people you don’t know. You don’t want strangers looking at photos of you, your friends or your family.
• Tell an adult if you feel scared or unhappy about anything.

Help and Advice

Your help is still needed to prevent children accessing inappropriate material at home by way of filters and parental controls. Look below at our extensive list of links and resources for Parents/Carers, Teachers and Young People to help you with your child’s online safety at home:

BBC Chatguide www.bbc.co.uk/onlinesafety

BBC Safe Surfing www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/help/web/staysafe

Childline Cyber Bullying www.childline.org.uk/explore/onlinesafety/pages/cyberbullying.aspx

CEOP - The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre www.thinkuknow.co.uk

Parent Info is collaboration between CEOP and Parent Zone and provides information to parents and carers about their children’s wellbeing and resilience, internet safety and a wide range of other topic matters like sex, relationship and body image.

If you would like to share any information or require any further support please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.