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eSafety

Online and Your Child

What we do

At Acre Hall primary school we are fully committed to the safeguarding of our pupils and eSafety is of paramount importance.  With the ongoing support of you as parents, we aim to educate our children to make the right decisions to keep themselves safe online.  Throughout the year we offer a range of support to parents on the subject of eSafety through talks, information on our website and general updates. ESafety is an intrinsic part of our computing lessons and at any time the children access technology.  Click here for the ESafety Policy

What can parents and guardians do?

  1. Set up parental controls
    You can find out how to set up parental controls through your web provider here.
  2. Encourage your child to use ‘Safe Search’ search engines. All the links below have stronger restrictions.
    www.safesearchkids.com
    www.kidsclick.org
    There is also an educational version of YouTube that can be accessed on www.youtube.com/education
  3. Know and understand which apps your child is using.
    There are always new apps for children to play games and communicate. You can find out important information about the apps such as their privacy settings, the type of content and which age groups they are suitable for.
    The following information and websites may also offer further support to parents and carers. The NSPCC have teamed up with O2 to help keep children safe when they’re using the internet, social networks, apps, games and more.
    nspcc.org.uk/onlinesafety

Online gaming

Alan Mackenzie, Optimus Education, examines the research on the effects of violent video games and suggests what schools and parents can do to control behavioural changes

Keeping children safe whilst playing online.

Useful links

Being very accessible, this provides information and guidance to parents to help under the digital world. There is also an online test to see how much you know.

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Irlam Road, Flixton
Manchester M41 6NA
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