This week will be focused on Internet Safety with Safer Internet Day taking place on Tuesday 6th February, so please be reminded that our school website has lots of useful information for parents and carers regarding internet safety. We subscribe to an online safety newsletter which gets added to the website regularly, along with articles from National Online Safety, such as ‘Top Tips,’ for managing screentime, how to set up parental controls on devices, smartphone security, advice for safe online gaming and plenty more.
Please visit our ‘Online Safety for Parents’ website page for more information:
Online Safety for Parents | Barlow Primary School (barlowschool.org.uk)
Please also visit the link below for the Online Safety Newsletter for February 2024. This edition covers: new devices and parental controls, WhatsApp, LEGO Fortnite, YouTube and content warnings, a guide to the Online Safety Bill and advice on how to manage distressing content that children observe.
Online Safety Newsletter - Safer Internet Day | Barlow Primary School (barlowschool.org.uk)
Another link under our Online Safety for Parents website page which gives important tips for parents regarding how to guide your children through Smartphone Safety Tips for them.
NOS_Smartphone_Safety_Tips_Guide (barlowschool.org.uk)
Class 1
During this week the children in class 1 took part in a One Day Creative production workshop helping ‘Pirate Captain Digi’ negotiate the internet safely. The workshop will help to equip our children with the skills they need to keep themselves safe and experience the internet responsibly and positively. We have also listened to stories with the theme of responsible internet use.
‘If you don’t learn about internet safety, then you might not be safe. If you are worried about anything on the internet you must tell a grown-up.’ - Maria Year 1.
Class 3
We have taken part in a range of activities to learn how to stay safe online. We did a 'name the app' quiz, looking at the age rating of each popular app in class, then talking through a range of scenarios and what we should do, who we should talk to and what to look out for when we are interacting with others online. We then joined a live lesson, set up by the BBC, which explored how AI is used and what to look out for when we are using apps and devices where AI is already in use.
The children have been learning about Internet safety to help them understand how to keep themselves safe when using the internet and other electronic devices.
PCSO Joe Spooner, Schools Liaison Officer, visited our federation schools on Friday 9th February, to deliver an assembly, focusing on Internet Safety. At the end of his assembly PCSO Spooner invited the children to ask questions that they may have had about Internet Safety.
We have also booked an exciting visit from the Police Cyber Protect Van Team, on Wednesday, 24th April for the children in Classes 2 and 3, so please look out for this news on our website in future.
Linked to this, we have an updated Privacy Notice for January 2024, which states how your personal information is collected and processed within our federation and what your personal data rights are:
