Online-Safety

Children have the right to enjoy childhood online, to access safe online spaces, and to benefit from all the opportunities that a connected world can bring to them, appropriate to their age and stage. As they grow older, it is crucial that they learn to balance the benefits offered by technology with a critical awareness of their own and other’s online behaviour and develop effective strategies for staying safe and making a positive contribution online.

Our online-safety Curriculum

We have a large stock of IPADS/laptops in school and pupils use these to support and enhance their learning on occasions.

Our online-safety curriculum is part of PSHE (1Decision) and our Computing curriculum (iLearn2).

There are also a number of risks to children’s welfare and safety when using internet enabled technology that we will teach the children about as they grow older through the school:
• content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate, or harmful content.
• contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users.
• conduct: online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm to children or
others.
• commerce: illegal, inappropriate, or harmful online commercial activities that can
compromise the health and wellbeing or security of children or others.

This will be taught when we feel the children are at an appropriate age.

Online-Safety Awareness

Bowbrook school is focused and committed to developing staff and parents/carers e-safety awareness through quality training and a wide range of resources.