Next week we will be covering this essential safeguarding element of our curriculum. Children will be off their usual timetable in the afternoons to cover internet safety. The internet is a powerful, rich resource that we rely upon for so many systems and functions in our daily life, however it has many potential dangers that we must educate our children about in order to keep them safe.
Safer internet day is on Tuesday which we plan to mark through our safety assembly and sharing some resources based on the theme of too good to be true, protecting from internet scams. We will ensure that we are covering the dangerous elements of online gaming and/or use of chat rooms, as some of our children have shared that they have played against and/or chatted to people that they didn’t know. This is something that we we regularly refer to as being dangerous, however we feel that more reminders are needed to highlight the potential dangers of this to make families and children more aware. Through our online safety teaching we aim to deepen the children’s understanding of the potential for scams, risks and the potential for harm. We aim to make them see that unfortunately not everyone is who they say they are, and that our children need to know the skills to keep themselves safe.
Some links and information about safer internet day are below:
Safer Internet Day 2025 – UK Safer Internet Centre
Safer Internet Day 2025: Teaching resources – BBC Teach
Safer Internet Day 2025 | Internet Matters
Our computing subject website page and safeguarding website page have further useful links.