Internet Safety Guide

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Internet Safety is an important aspect of ICT use at Wallace High School. The school has two CEOP trained members of staff and each pupil receives the CEOP pupil course during the Year 10 tutorial programme. For more information on CEOP and the “Think U Know” programme please visit http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

Children need parental supervision and common-sense advice in order that their experiences whilst on-line are happy, healthy, and productive. Children need to conduct independent actions in order to develop, however, they still need parental involvement and supervision (direct and indirect) in their daily lives if security is to be maintained. Therefore, the same general parenting skills that apply to the “real world” also apply while on-line.

Internet : Guidance For Parents

• Stay in touch with what your children are doing by spending time with them whilst they are on-line, i.e. make on-line time a family activity; make sure that you know the services your child uses.
• Find out what types of information and services are offered and whether there are ways for parents to protect their child.
• Keep the computer in a family room rather than a child’s bedroom.
• Learn yourself about how to access the services – ask your child to explain the services to you;go on-line yourself so that you are familiar with and understand the potential benefits and risks associated with Internet access.
• If you don’t know how to log on, get your child to show you.
• Seek out the advice and counsel of other local Internet users and become familiar with the appropriate systems;
• Get to know your child’s ‘on-line friends’ just as you do their other friends.
• If you are concerned about your child’s on-line activities, talk to him/her about it;
• Develop an agreed set of ‘Family Internet Rules’

Download Sample Internet Rules

Recommended Reading :Their Space

Education for a digital generation draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media.

Related Links :

Think U Know
BBC Chat Guide
BBC Stay Safe Online
Kidsmart
Stop Text Bullying
The Anti-bullying Network
Kidscape
There 4 Me
Chat Danger
Childnet InternationalKnow IT All (Childnet International for Parents)
KidsmartCyberbully
The Parents Centre
Internet Watch Foundation
IC Advice for young people and Social Networking
Anti-Bullying Online
Safer Internet

Downloads :

CEOP Strategic Overview

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