At Perry Hall Primary school the happiness, safety and wellbeing of our pupils is at the centre of everything we do. In this rapidly changing digital world it is imperative that we prepare our pupils with the knowledge and skills to remain safe online.In order to achieve this, we provide our pupils, parents and staff with opportunities to learn and gather skills to support their own digital safety.
The school has worked closely with the local authority’s Learning Technologies Team to produce an in depth and comprehensive policy which is designed to cover all aspects of digital safety. Also in conjunction with the Learning Technologies Team we have put in place progressive and challenging Computing planning. This has been carefully planned to include a wide spectrum of digital safety skills.To support the pupils learning our school also provides pupils with opportunities to gather knowledge through other avenues, such as assemblies, games and competitions, raising the importance.
Every February all of our pupils participated in activities for Safer Internet Day (SID). As part of this the pupils participated in discussions and games and are set a project at home to reflect their knowledge of digital safety.
We pride ourselves on the positive links we have with the parents of our pupils and endeavour to support them as much as we can. Therefore we hold digital safety workshops for all stakeholders at certain points throughout the year. By doing this we hope that the important messages we are sharing at school will be reflected by the parents at home.
Our school is a great supporter of CEOP (the police branch of digital safety). All of our pupils have been made familiar with this service and are continually reminded of ways in which they are able to report breaches in their digital safety.
Click the following link to download our e-safety policy: Academy E-Safety policy July 2019
For more information about how you can ensure your child is safe on the internet please see the attached document we sent out to all parents this year. You can also visit the websites listed below:
PH E Safety Guide for Parents and Carers
http://www.childnet.com/resources/kia/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/0/22728225
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-carers
Trust Online Safety Policy
