Online Safety

Ms Karen Turnbull is our Online Safety Lead. She works closely with our online safety team who meet half-termly.

Members of the team are:

Ms Karen Turnbull - Online safety lead
Ms Mandie Huggett - Safeguarding coordinator
Mr Guy Collings - Online safety governor
Miss Claire Joyce - Headteacher

Please click here to view our Online Safety Policy.

As new online opportunities have emerged, and challenges for learners have increased, we recognise the importance of delivering an engaging and relevant online safety curriculum for our pupils.

At Beech Grove, we make sure online safety is embedded across our curriculum. We also have whole school online safety assemblies and half-termly online safety lessons.

We use the 'Active Bytes' programme to teach children about online safety. Active Bytes focuses on active learning and using pupils' experiences to teach online safety. This ensures the curriculum is relevant to our pupils and values the knowledge and experience they bring to this subject.

Beech Grove children are incredibly knowledgeable about how to keep themselves safe online and when using mobile and gaming technologies.

Active Bytes gives pupils and staff a shared language about online safety. In all year groups, there is a focus on 'building habits when I use technology'. Posters are displayed in all classes to explain the key habits that support safe online use. These behaviours are built around three overarching habits:

I am kind and responsible
I am safe and secure
I am healthy

E-Cadets

'E-cadets' is a multi-award winning online safety education scheme which empowers a team of pupils to work with all pupils at the school, to develop their understanding about how to stay safe online. At Beech Grove, our E-Cadets:

advise fellow pupils on how to protect themselves when browsing the internet, using social media on smart phones and tablets, or playing online games.
meet twice per term with the online safety lead
complete termly challenges relating to online safety
keep everybody up to date with latest information and challenges.

Keeping your family safe

We recognise how important it is that we work closely with parents to ensure the messages children receive about online safety are consistent.

It is important that parents regularly speak to their children about how they can keep themselves safe and how to behave responsibly online.

Please remember the importance of monitoring what your child does online, including on mobile phones, tablets and when gaming, and of talking to them about what to do if anything inappropriate happens. If you have any questions, please talk to your child's class teacher, or ask your child!

There are a number of excellent websites with lots of information for children and parents:

	Help and advice for families in a digital world. Parent Info is a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
	The CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) logo pictured here is on a lot of social networking sites. It is the Advice, Help and Report button. Clicking on it will take you to their website, where you can easily follow links for help if you are a parent or child. It is excellent, so please try it now!
	Highly recommended is the Thinkyouknow website. Click the image to go to the website and get the latest safety information. This is an education initiative by CEOP - the UKs national law enforcement agency that focuses on tackling sexual abuse of children.
	CBBC Stay Safe is a super internet survival guide for you and your children. It includes all the tips and tricks you'll need to stay safe online, beat the cyber-bullies and become a super-surfer.
	Launched in January 2015, this campaign aims to raise awareness of how to help your child stay safe on social networks, apps and games. They have a useful guide to the social networks young people are using on their Net Aware.
	A printable pocket size leaflet that gives parents and carers points to consider and useful links to help you understand how to deal with online situations.

Action Planning

At Beech Grove we use the '360 degree safe' tool, which is intended to help schools review their online safety policy and practice. The review involves conducting an in-depth audit of each aspect of online safety, to identify what is working well at the school and how practice can be further developed. Using this information, a detailed action plan is produced which the online safety team is responsible for implementing and monitoring.

Online Safety

E-Cadets

Keeping your family safe

Action Planning

Other useful links