E-Safety
Keeping Your Child Safe on TikTok
Increasingly, more and more primary aged children are using the app TikTok even though this app is intended for users over the age of 13.
At Westerhope, we would not advise any of our children to be allowed access to the TikTok app.
The following Internet Matters website gives parents/carers information and advice about keeping children safe if you have given your child permission to use the TikTok app.
https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/esafety-news/tik-tok-app-safety-what-parents-need-to-know/
#OnlineSafetyAtHome
As we continue to learn at home, it is important our children are continuing to learn about how to be safe when online.
Think U Know have created some brilliant home learning activities to help children understand certain aspects of online safety. If you can, it would great to complete some of the activities at home with your child.
You can access the home learning packs by clicking on the relevant phase below:
E-Safety Live Online Sessions
Google and Parent Zone have launched a new and interactive parent sessions about internet safety.
Livestreamed on YouTube and led by our expert team, these online events will introduce the Be Internet Legends programme to parents and answer any questions and concerns they might have. Stay tuned for the full schedule.
Click here to find out more about the parent sessions.
Don’t forget the SMART Rules!
If you are a parent or carer, we hope you will find the web links below useful. Please read our e-safety policy.
If you have got any concerns, questions or you would like more information about e-safety at school or at home, then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Mr Thoburn is our Computing Leader and Mr Outterside is our designated safeguarding lead.
You will find lots of parent guides about apps and websites children can currently access by going to the National Online Safety website by clicking here.
www.nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/
Check out the Parent Zone website, with lots of advice and courses for Parents and Carers.
Also check out the Digital Parenting magazines, which are full of advice and articles about the digital world. You will find copies of the magazine in our main entrance.
How to keep your child safe online.
Parental controls
Parental controls can be used to block upsetting or harmful content, control in-app purchases or manage how long your child spends online. And the good news is parental controls are really easy to set up.
Have you tried?
www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/ - You tell the website what devices you want to control and it gives you handy guides to help you set up the parental controls.
Other websites include …
www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/parental-controls/
Monitoring your child on the internet
Children spend too much time staring at screens and are exposed to a lot of inappropriate material. It is important that you manage their screen time and control the quality of the media they engage with. There are various apps you can download to control what your child sees and how long they can spend on their devices.
Have you tried?
Kidslox
Other apps include…
Ourpact